SK Telecom Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Santa Clara, United States

Total investments

25

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.56

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

7

Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileGamingAppsMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareAdvertisingTelecommunicationsFraud Detection

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. SK Telecom Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Sunnyvale.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Online Games, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cue, Giiv, Sim Ops Studios. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the SK Telecom Ventures, startups are often financed by Partech, Translink Capital, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Translink Capital, XG Ventures, ATA Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Translink Capital, SharesPost Investment Management, Sequoia Capital.

The top activity for fund was in 2010. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. This SK Telecom Ventures works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailCloud/InfrastructureSemiconductorsB2B/EnterpriseCommunity/Social network Show 2 more
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 100M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
5
Exits
7
Rounds per year
1.56
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (7)
  • Gaming (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Telecommunications (5)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (23)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
92M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.15
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allganize 28 Nov 2023 Enterprise, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Early Stage Venture 274K United States, California, Oakland
Giiv 01 Jun 2010 E-Commerce, Retail, Mobile, Messaging, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices Early Stage Venture 3M United States, California, Los Angeles
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