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Simone Investment Managers

Founders BJ Chung

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$91M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • FinTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Luxury & All

Apps
Commercial
Consumer Goods
Online Portals
$2M31 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

GymT

Fitness
Health Care
Training
$3M23 Mar 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 5
Average round size 91M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Luxury & All

Apps
Commercial
Consumer Goods
Online Portals
$2M31 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

GymT

Fitness
Health Care
Training
$3M23 Mar 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
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