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SK Group

Founders Chey Jong-hyon

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$250M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 6
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Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • CleanTech
  • Clean Energy
Summary

SK Group is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1946. The company was established in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seoul.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the SK Group, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, StageOne Ventures, Sinovation Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tokyo Gas, Sunshine Insurance Group, Sumitomo Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GIC, Boyu Capital, Alibaba Group.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Switzerland. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Facial Recognition, Electrical Distribution. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Face++ (Megvii), ConsenSys, Enuvis.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this SK Group works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2003. When the investment is from SK Group the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TerraPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Nuclear
$750M15 Aug 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Geminus.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Information Technology
$7M27 Jun 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

BigPay

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$100M06 Aug 2021 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

The Wave Talk

Electronics
Medical
$1M29 Apr 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

E Green Global

Local Business
Manufacturing
$8M12 Nov 2020 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

MEGVII

Artificial Intelligence
Facial Recognition
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Mobile
Robotics
Software
$460M01 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Poolus

Apps
Ride Sharing
$19M31 Oct 2017 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Socar

Car Sharing
Communities
Transportation
$13M30 Apr 2017 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

FADU

Data Storage
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$6M01 Dec 2015 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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Total investments 31
Average round size 250M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.42

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TerraPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Nuclear
$750M15 Aug 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Geminus.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial
Information Technology
$7M27 Jun 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

BigPay

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$100M06 Aug 2021 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

The Wave Talk

Electronics
Medical
$1M29 Apr 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

E Green Global

Local Business
Manufacturing
$8M12 Nov 2020 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

MEGVII

Artificial Intelligence
Facial Recognition
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Mobile
Robotics
Software
$460M01 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Poolus

Apps
Ride Sharing
$19M31 Oct 2017 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Socar

Car Sharing
Communities
Transportation
$13M30 Apr 2017 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

FADU

Data Storage
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$6M01 Dec 2015 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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