SK Holdings

Total investments

31

Average round size

105M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.44

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.16

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyTransportationArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareGeneticsManufacturingPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsAdvanced Materials

Summary

SK Holdings appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the SK Holdings, startups are often financed by 5AM Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Versant Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Versant Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Stonebridge Ventures, Softbank Ventures Asia, SharesPost Investment Management.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Peer to Peer, Logistics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ESR Cayman (e-Shang Redwood), Socar, GenEdit.

The typical startup value when the investment from SK Holdings is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
0.44
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (11)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Advanced Materials (4)
  • Pharmaceutical (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • China (4)
  • Sweden (1)
  • South Korea (8)
  • Singapore (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
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
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
221M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Strategy success index
0.40

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