Stic Investment

Total investments

60

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

49

Rounds per year

2.40

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyFinanceManufacturingInsuranceMusicShoppingAuto Insurance

Summary

The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Seoul.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Stic Investment, startups are often financed by Mobius Venture Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Korea Investment Partners, Wooshin Venture Investment Corp., Walden International. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wooshin Venture Investment Corp., STIC Ventures, Aju IB Investment.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2004. When the investment is from Stic Investment the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. This Stic Investment works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 12.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight swIDch, Kongdoo Company, WADIZ. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Security.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
17
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.40
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Retail (7)
  • Shopping (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (36)
  • Singapore (7)
  • Vietnam (4)
  • India (3)
  • Indonesia (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
412M
Group Appearance index
0.48
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
23.86
Strategy success index
0.70

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