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Samsung NEXT

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Total investments 315
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 227
Rounds per year 28.64
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 24
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

In 2013 was created Samsung NEXT, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Mountain View.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Samsung NEXT is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Samsung NEXT performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Samsung NEXT, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Techstars, ff Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Verizon Ventures, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Verizon Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Canaan Partners.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, DayTwo, Survios. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Activeloop

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Machine Learning
Training
$11M26 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

0G Labs

$35M25 Mar 2024 -

Mystiko.Network

Finance
Financial Services
Security
$18M20 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Sahara AI

$6M05 Mar 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Synadia Communications

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Computer
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Software
$25M22 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Bria

Computer
Software
$24M21 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

beoble

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Social Network
Software
$7M19 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Startale Labs

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$3M05 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

SqueezeBits

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Information Technology
$2M23 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
News
AI model optimization startup Deci raises $21M

– Tel Aviv, Israel-based Deci, a company developing a platform to optimize machine learning models, announced that it raised $21 million in a series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from Square Peg, Emerge, Jibe Ventures, Samsung Next, Vintage Investment Partners, and Fort Ross Ventures.
– The investment, which comes a year after Deci’s $9.1 million seed round, brings the company’s total capital raised to $30.1 million and will be used to support growth by expanding sales, marketing, and service operations, according to CEO Yonatan Geifman.

Metrika Raises $14M in Series A Funding

– Metrika is a Cambridge, Mass.-based operational intelligence source for blockchain.
– Company raised $14M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Neotribe Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nyca Partners and SCB 10X, and previous investors, among others.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s platform and broaden its customer base across numerous industries.

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Total investments 315
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 28.64
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Activeloop

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Machine Learning
Training
$11M26 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

0G Labs

$35M25 Mar 2024 -

Mystiko.Network

Finance
Financial Services
Security
$18M20 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Sahara AI

$6M05 Mar 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Synadia Communications

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Computer
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Software
$25M22 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Bria

Computer
Software
$24M21 Feb 2024 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

beoble

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Developer APIs
Information Technology
Social Network
Software
$7M19 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Startale Labs

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$3M05 Feb 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

SqueezeBits

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Information Technology
$2M23 Jan 2024 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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