SK Telecom

Total investments

49

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

1.23

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

5

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareMobile AppsRobotics3D TechnologyManufacturingMedical

Summary

In 1984 was created SK Telecom, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Seoul. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.

Comparing to the other companies, this SK Telecom performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Wearables. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Pavilion Data Systems, SiFive, Multi Channel Network For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the SK Telecom, startups are often financed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Sunsino Ventures Group, Skypoint Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Monet Capital, BDC Venture Capital, Western Digital Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Multiple Capital, BDR Capital, BDC Venture Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
8
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.23
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Software (9)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • Manufacturing (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • South Korea (20)
  • China (2)
  • Israel (3)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
357M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
2.78
Strategy success index
0.60

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