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SparkLabs Accelerator

Founders Bernard Moon Eugene Kim Hanjoo Lee Jimmy Kim

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Total investments 202
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$324K
Portfolio companies 185
Rounds per year 16.83
Lead investments 9
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 5
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

In 2012 was created SparkLabs Accelerator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Seoul.

This SparkLabs Accelerator works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from SparkLabs Accelerator is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the SparkLabs Accelerator, startups are often financed by ff Venture Capital, White Star Capital, Rothenberg Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zetta Venture Partners, Start Smart Labs, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SparkLabs Global Ventures, Softbank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - South Korea. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Memebox, Drop, Jocoos.

The fund was created by Bernard Moon, Hanjoo Lee, Jimmy Kim. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amber Road

Business Development
Software
$783K21 Dec 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Spring Again

Information Technology
Service Industry
14 Dec 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Dance Truck

Media and Entertainment
SaaS
19 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Equal Table

B2C
Food and Beverage
25 Jul 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Charan

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$3M23 Feb 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

FluentT

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
21 Feb 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Vetflux

Veterinary
17 Oct 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

ELROILAB

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
Quality Assurance
$1M31 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Tooth Note

Dental
Sales
29 Jun 2022 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea

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Total investments 202
Average round size 324K
Rounds per year 16.83
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.20

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Amber Road

Business Development
Software
$783K21 Dec 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Spring Again

Information Technology
Service Industry
14 Dec 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Dance Truck

Media and Entertainment
SaaS
19 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Equal Table

B2C
Food and Beverage
25 Jul 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Charan

E-Commerce
Fashion
Retail
$3M23 Feb 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

FluentT

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
21 Feb 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Vetflux

Veterinary
17 Oct 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

ELROILAB

Artificial Intelligence
Food and Beverage
Quality Assurance
$1M31 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Tooth Note

Dental
Sales
29 Jun 2022 Kangwon-do, Gangwon-do, South Korea
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