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Total investments 184
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 142
Rounds per year 7.36
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biotechnology
Summary

In 1999 was created Smilegate Investment, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seongnam.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Smilegate Investment, startups are often financed by Softbank Ventures Asia, Y Combinator, Mega Investment. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Samsung Ventures, Softbank Ventures Asia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Stonebridge Capital, NP Investments.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cashfree, Cashfree, Coinplug. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reliv

29 Mar 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

StealthMole

$7M28 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Bold9

Customer Service
Information Technology
Logistics
07 Feb 2024 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Kai Health

Artificial Intelligence
Fertility
Fitness
Machine Learning
Wellness
05 Feb 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Hudson AI

Content
$2M30 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Cartius

Child Care
EdTech
Information Technology
15 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

GenGenAI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$3M21 Dec 2023 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Feat Paper

Information Technology
SaaS
Service Industry
Software
20 Dec 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Korea Space Data

Interior Design
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$3M04 Dec 2023 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
News
Mathpresso Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– Mathpresso, a Seoul, South Korea-based provider of a K-12 mobile learning app, raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Yellowdog, GGV Capital, Goodwater Capital, KDB, and SKS Private Equity with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia, Legend Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and Smilegate Investment.
– The company intends to use the funds to strengthen its AI-based techniques of recommendation algorithms and develop localized business models for its regional offices in Indonesia and Thailand.

GoodTime Raises $9.5M Series A Extension led by KTB – Increases the Round’s Total to $16.7M

– GoodTime announced $9.5M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by KTB Ventures along with participation from Smilegate and Atinum Investment.
– This funding will be used to accelerate innovation for hiring/candidate experience solutions and accelerate go-to-market growth in a wide range of industries with innovative clients such as Box, Shopify, and Zoom.
– GoodTime is an AI-based hiring experience solution that can reduce time-to-hire by as much as 50% while saving as much as $500,000 per year in talent acquisition costs.
– GoodTime is the only HRtech solution that provides a way to measure and manage the diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) process for interview scheduling.

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Total investments 184
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 7.36
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reliv

29 Mar 2024 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

StealthMole

$7M28 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Bold9

Customer Service
Information Technology
Logistics
07 Feb 2024 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Kai Health

Artificial Intelligence
Fertility
Fitness
Machine Learning
Wellness
05 Feb 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Hudson AI

Content
$2M30 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Cartius

Child Care
EdTech
Information Technology
15 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

GenGenAI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$3M21 Dec 2023 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Feat Paper

Information Technology
SaaS
Service Industry
Software
20 Dec 2023 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Korea Space Data

Interior Design
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$3M04 Dec 2023 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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