Samsung Venture Investment Corporation

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in small and medium-sized businesses developing new technologies that is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 1999 by Samsung as their venture investment arm. According to the companies website (as of November 2019), Samsung Venture Investment Corporation is managing 2,515 billion KRW and has raised 47 investment funds.

Investments

The firm focuses its investments in technologies sectors such as semiconductors, telecommunications, software, big data, cloud computing, virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, internet, materials, financial technology, biological engineering, and medical technology.

Notable investments made by the Samsung Venture Investment Corporation include: Perigee, Oxford Semantic Technolgies, NuTonomy, CoolDry, BoxFish, YuMe, Wise Planet, Kateeva, Delta, MindMeld, Scientific Magnets, Kngine, Macatronix Automation, Maluuba, TeraView, Philoptics, and Hims.

Timeline

Funded Companies

Company

Description

Industry

Website

Location

Loom.ai

A technology startup company that creates 3D avatars from photographs.

Computer Vision

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Adicet Bio is a biotechnology company creating immune cell therapies for treating cancer and other diseases.

Menlo Park, California

OpenX (company)

OpenX is a Pasadena, California-based company.

Glooko is a Palo Alto, California-based company.

Application programming interface (API)

Diabetes mellitus

Digital therapeutics

glooko.com

Palo Alto, California

Pluto TV

Pluto TV is a video company.

Video

pluto.tv

Plume Design

Plume is a new type of whole home mesh Wi-Fi system that intelligently manages the Internet service for all devices and rooms in the home, maximizing the Wi-Fi network coverage and eliminating dead zones.

Internet service provider

Wireless

Hardware

discover.plume.com, plume.com

Palo Alto, California