A search fund platform from discovery to exit
A search fund's work does not end when it finds a company. Search Funds Korea is designed to carry discovery, relationships, acquisition, funds, ownership and exit on the same company record.
The capabilities below are the design. The product is in development and includes features that are not available yet.
Seven stages on one company record
- Company intelligence: find companies by sector, products, geography, establishments, filed financials and observed activity, with the source and change history of each field.
- Ecosystem and relationships: find published information on search funds, investors, advisers and lenders, and keep your own contacts and conversations.
- Searcher operations: manage investment theses, target lists, outreach records, pipelines, research packets, budgets and sponsor reporting.
- Acquisition: organize opportunities, data rooms, diligence, financial normalization, valuation, financing and transaction decisions, based on seller-authorized accounts, contracts and transaction documents.
- Funds and investors: manage vehicles, subscriptions, commitments, capital calls, payments, allocations, capital accounts, distributions and reporting.
- Portfolio ownership: keep continuity after the founder transition, with customer relationships, financial ingestion, KPIs, covenants, board work and value creation.
- Exit: manage buyers, bids, documents, proceeds, investor reporting and vehicle wind-down.
Public data versus private records
Public data supports discovery and research; the actual transaction and operations rest on the customer's private information. A published representative is not necessarily an owner, an active registration is not proof of trading, and a public contract is not annual revenue. The platform aims to keep these differences visible in both the screens and the data model.
- Shared company data: facts collected from public sources, with their sources, maintained by automated collectors.
- Customer private records: notes, contacts, theses, diligence conclusions and documents, visible only inside the customer's account.
- A company can sit in several customers' pipelines, and each customer's theses and decisions stay invisible to the others.
Korean and English
The goal is Korean and English search, screens, emails, onboarding and research packets. Original Korean evidence is kept alongside translations, and an English name published by a source is labelled apart from a transliteration made here.
Current development status
- Connectors for each Korean data source, collection from sources that need authentication, and the joined Korean company corpus are still to be implemented and measured.
- What a source's documentation describes is not what has been loaded. Loaded figures will be published with their populations once measured.
The planned data sources are on the public data sources page, and the search fund model and succession context are in the guide.