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SK Holdings

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
$105M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Advanced Materials
  • Pharmaceutical
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

a41

Blockchain
Trading Platform
Virtual Reality
$11M28 Sep 2022 -

Thermo Lab Korea

Logistics
Packaging Services
$4M14 Feb 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Palm NFT Studio

Computer
Software
$27M09 Dec 2021 -

GenEdit

Biotechnology
Delivery Service
Genetics
Therapeutics
$26M23 Sep 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$350M04 Jun 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hummingbird Bioscience

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$125M18 May 2021 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

GI Innovation

Biotechnology
$52M12 Apr 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Testworks

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$4M18 Nov 2020 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Enuma

E-Learning
Education
Information Technology
$9M18 May 2020 Berkeley, California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 105M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.16
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

a41

Blockchain
Trading Platform
Virtual Reality
$11M28 Sep 2022 -

Thermo Lab Korea

Logistics
Packaging Services
$4M14 Feb 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Palm NFT Studio

Computer
Software
$27M09 Dec 2021 -

GenEdit

Biotechnology
Delivery Service
Genetics
Therapeutics
$26M23 Sep 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$350M04 Jun 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hummingbird Bioscience

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$125M18 May 2021 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

GI Innovation

Biotechnology
$52M12 Apr 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Testworks

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$4M18 Nov 2020 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Enuma

E-Learning
Education
Information Technology
$9M18 May 2020 Berkeley, California, United States
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