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YG Entertainment

Founders Yang Hyun-suk

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$43M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Virtual Reality
  • Music
  • Video Streaming
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NAVER Z

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$194M30 Nov 2021 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

S2W

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
$10M29 Sep 2021 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

3i Inc.

Computer Vision
Electronics
Software
$24M23 Sep 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bee Factory

$870K30 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Barogo

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Information Technology
Logistics
Mobile
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$69M17 Jun 2021 Russian Federation, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

NAVER Z

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$10M12 Oct 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

AmazeVR

Gaming
Hardware
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
Virtual Reality
$2M27 Jan 2020 United States, " United States"}

The Beatpacking Company

Media and Entertainment
Music
Service Industry
$2M02 Aug 2014 Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 12
Average round size 43M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NAVER Z

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$194M30 Nov 2021 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

S2W

Analytics
Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
$10M29 Sep 2021 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

3i Inc.

Computer Vision
Electronics
Software
$24M23 Sep 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Bee Factory

$870K30 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Barogo

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Information Technology
Logistics
Mobile
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$69M17 Jun 2021 Russian Federation, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

NAVER Z

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$10M12 Oct 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

AmazeVR

Gaming
Hardware
Media and Entertainment
Software
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
Virtual Reality
$2M27 Jan 2020 United States, " United States"}

The Beatpacking Company

Media and Entertainment
Music
Service Industry
$2M02 Aug 2014 Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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