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????《財富》雜志獲悉，已運營18年的硅谷阿爾托斯風投公司(Altos Ventures)剛剛完成了一只基金的募集工作，籌措資金6000萬美元，將專門投資于韓國初創企業。這應該是有史以來美國風投公司中規模最大的韓國投資基金。 ????阿爾托斯風投公司合伙人安東尼?李解釋說：“這幾年來，我們一直擇機在韓國投資，而現在的宏觀局勢已經適于開展專項投資活動。過去10年間，韓國科技公司已經創造了約600億美元的市值，除了一兩家公司之外，這些公司幾乎都沒有獲得西方風投或私募基金的資金支持。” ????問題在于，新一代韓國企業家會歡迎阿爾托斯這樣的硅谷風投公司嗎？李認為，答案是肯定的，因為他們中有許多人都在美國接受過教育，而且把硅谷風投資金視為經營上的援手和獲得認可的標志。 ????這只基金中約40%的資金來自韓國投資者，阿爾托斯風投公司今年早些時候在首爾設立了辦事處。辦事處成員包括年初派遣到首爾的合伙人Han Kim和新來的顧問Hee-Eun Park，后者是手機約會軟件公司IUM的聯合創始人，并曾擔任過首席執行官。 ????李指出，這只基金將以他所說的“創業增長”為焦點，這主要是指正在進行首輪國際融資但可能已經有收入和盈利能力的公司。（財富中文網） ????譯者：Charlie |
????Altos Ventures, an 18 year-old Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has just finished raising a $60 million fund dedicated to South Korea-based startups, Fortune has learned. It is believed to be the largest Korea-focused fund ever raised by a U.S. venture firm,. ????“We’ve invested opportunistically in Korea for several years, but macro conditions have just gotten to a point where it made sense to do something on a dedicated basis,” explains Anthony Lee, an Altos Ventures partner. “There has been something like $60 billion in market cap created by Korean tech companies in the past decade but, with one or two exceptions, none of those companies took Western venture capital or private equity.” ????A question, therefore, is if the next generation of Korean entrepreneurs will warm to a Silicon Valley-based firm like Altos. Lee believes they will, in part because many of them went to school in the U.S. and view Silicon Valley capital as a leg up operationally and a mark of validation. ????Approximately 40% of the fund commitments came from Korean investors, and Altos opened an office in Seoul earlier this year. It is staffed with partner Han Kim, who relocated earlier this year, and new principal Hee-Eun Park, the co-founder and former CEO of mobile dating company IUM. ????Lee says that the fund will focus on what he refers to as “venture growth,” which primarily means companies doing their first institutional funding round, but which may already have revenue and profitability. |
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