SBI Investment Korea

Total investments

83

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

2.18

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareRoboticsMedicalFashion

Summary

SBI Investment Korea appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1986. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seoul. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Helloworld, Tapas Media, Fresh Your Life. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Lifestyle, Real Time. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the SBI Investment Korea, startups are often financed by Sand Hill Angels, Asia Pacific Internet Group, Yanolja. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redbadge Pacific, Korea Investment Partners, Yanolja. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yanolja, The Craftory, Rocket Internet.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
83
Lead investments
7
Exits
2
Rounds per year
2.18
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • E-Commerce (9)
  • Fashion (8)
  • Medical (8)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (67)
  • United States (7)
  • China (1)
  • Japan (1)
  • Singapore (2)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
133M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
29.65
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MetisX 23 Jan 2023 Computer, Semiconductor, Data Storage Seed 7M Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, Yongin, South Korea
MetisX 13 May 2024 Computer, Semiconductor, Data Storage Early Stage Venture 44M Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, Yongin, South Korea
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