Simone Investment Managers

Total investments

6

Average round size

77M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.60

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

1

Areas of investment
CommercialE-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceAppsMarketplace

Summary

Simone Investment Managers is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Marketplace. 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 Dianrong, TMON. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The typical startup value when the investment from Simone Investment Managers is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The current fund was established by BJ Chung. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Simone Investment Managers, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, Sun Hung Kai & Co, Stonebridge Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GIC, EG Capital Advisors, China Minsheng Investment Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ORIX Asia Capital Ltd, Dalian Finance Industry Investment Group (DFIIG), CITIC Securities.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.60
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Internet (1)
  • FinTech (1)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (5)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
292M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
3
Avg. multiplicator
0.15
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
mangrove 01 Feb 2023 Real Estate, Lifestyle, Service Industry, Residential, Rental Property Early Stage Venture 10M Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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