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SK Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Seoul, South Korea

Total investments

31

Average round size

250M

Portfolio companies

26

Rounds per year

0.40

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

6

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinanceArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingCleanTechEnergyRenewable EnergyClean EnergyOil and GasElectrical Distribution

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
MobilityBiotech/Life SciencesSemiconductorsClimate tech
Geo focus
United States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
9
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.40
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Renewable Energy (5)
  • Energy (5)
  • CleanTech (5)
  • Clean Energy (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • Vietnam (5)
  • China (3)
  • Singapore (2)
  • Japan (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
760M
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Poolus 31 Oct 2017 Apps, Ride Sharing Early Stage Venture 19M Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Yeoksamdong, South Korea
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