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Woori Venture Partners

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Our investment is not limited to any one of companies’ growth stage, We believe that we can find our role in supporting and providing values whether the company is still building its team, devising its business model, preparing for IPO or considering private placements.

We look for opportunities in all market segments. But over the years we have accrued experience and expertise in finding new opportunities in consumer service, medical/healthcare, education, digital media, entertainment and internet/mobile sectors.

Investment sectors

  • Entertainment & Contents
  • Mobility
  • Chemical & Manufacture & Semiconductor
  • Bio & Healthcare
  • Consumer Service
  • ICT Platform Service
  • Metaverse & Software

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Qiming Venture Partners

Qiming Venture Partners is a top-tier VC firm with outstanding reputation. With our exceptional investment performances, we have been widely recognized by investors from around the world. We have a reputation for being entrepreneur friendly. Why Choose Us Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm. Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companies in the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages. Since our establishment, Qiming Venture Partners has earned extensive recognition from investors worldwide and has become an ideal VC firm for entrepreneurs, due to our exceptional investment performance. Qiming Venture Partners and our partners consistently rank among the leaders in the global venture capital industry across various prestigious lists. Experienced Investment Team Our professional investment team consists of founders, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, doctors, consultants, and financial experts. We have extensive experiences in building and operating a business. We are happy to share our experiences and resources with entrepreneurs. Exceptional Investment Performances Qiming strives to be the preferred investor for top entrepreneurs. For the past decades, we seized the opportunity of changing world with technologies. We have invested in companies that later become industry unicorns and listed companies, which delivered excellent returns for our LP investors. Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status. 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At the same time, we also attach great importance to in-depth and detailed due diligence. We make comprehensive contact with entrepreneurs, through a deep understanding of the business operations and scientific research data, we can better grasp investment opportunities and assess investment risks. Another essential component of our investment strategy is “focus”. We hope to have good insights and rich contacts for the industries we care about, truly understand the projects we invested in, be able to help after the investment, and form an ecosystem within our portfolio companies, to help start-ups grow from multiple perspectives. What Do We Invest Since our inception in 2006, we have been in touch with tens of thousands of founding teams of startup companies. On average, one out of 30 companies receives our funding. Seventy percent of our investments are in Series-A, and many of our portfolio companies will become industry leaders in less than seven years. 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Blume Ventures

Bold. Brave. Brilliant. Brazen. The founders we back are all this, and more. They are unreasonable, they are crazy ambitious, obsessed with solving hard, gnarly problems. Problems whose solutions transform lives and impact society. And, it takes a revolutionary founder, and a transformational company to solve these problems, and effect change. We back these transformational companies, and their revolutionary founders early, and remain lifelong partners. How does Blume evaluate early stage startups? In our framework, we look at three criteria to evaluate startups – size of market or opportunity, team quality and finally, investability or probability of the next round of capital. Our approximate weightage for Opportunity : Team : Investability is 40 : 40 : 20. Let us double click on these three criteria. Market size or opportunity: Pick too small a market and even the best team can’t build a large scalable business. The best founders know how to reshape a market opportunity and build solutions to fit the largest of the market opportunities. That said, one has to begin with the aggregate opportunity being very large. For example, are Ola and Uber a ride hailing app or a large scale urban transportation business? The market size expands 5-10x when the latter is applied. At Blume, we try to find a portfolio balance between founders who can chase a large market opportunity domestically or build a tech-led differentiated product for global markets (which increase Founding teams: These are the most important variables for us or even most VCs at our stage. In every decision, once the other two factors are seen as a go, the clincher element in a yes/no decision boils down to the founding team – their expertise in solving for this space, as well as the integrity, mission, passion and persistence that one can gauge at this early stage of business. 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