YG Entertainment
12
43M
10
0.44
1
0.08
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1996 was created YG Entertainment, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Seoul. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Singapore. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Miaopai, Gushcloud International, The Beatpacking Company. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Video Streaming, Music Streaming.
The current fund was established by Yang Hyun-suk.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. This YG Entertainment works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from YG Entertainment is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the YG Entertainment, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Sina, Wavemaker Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Weibo, Sequoia Capital China, Partners Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Altos Ventures, iDreamsky Technology, Weibo.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.44
- Follow on index
- 0.08
- Investments by industry
- Software (5)
- Media and Entertainment (3)
- Virtual Reality (3)
- Music (2)
- Video Streaming (2) Show 24 more
- Investments by region
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- South Korea (6)
- China (1)
- Russia (1)
- United States (2)
- Singapore (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 331M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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| Bee Factory | 30 Jun 2021 | Seed | 870K | Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea |
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