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Socar

Transportation · Seoul, South Korea · Founded 2012 · IPO 2022

Eco-friendly car sharing community that allows travelers to share cars with others who are traveling the same route

Valuation $543M
Revenue $432M
EBITDA $102M

Investors

16 investors on Socar's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Collaborative Fund
Sopoong Ventures
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
SBVA
Brookside Capital
IMM Private Equity
SK Group
Altos Ventures
Lotte Rental
SG Private Equity
KB Investment
LB Investment
SK Ventures
Songhyun Investment
Stonebridge Ventures
Premier Partners
Bain Capital

Global footprint

Where Socar has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
1 countries with
team presence
🇰🇷 South Korea100%
1 country shown
Web traffic by country
880K monthly visits
across markets
🏳️ Korea99.5%
🏳️ Republic of0.3%
🇺🇸 United States0.2%
🇯🇵 Japan0.1%
🇹🇭 Thailand0%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Socar's talent

Dealroom maps Socar's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$3M patent portfolio · 24 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$3M
0.54% of market cap · 26.5× larger than top peer BlaBlaCar ($110k)
24 active patent families
Where Socar innovates Car sharingClientLight sourceOptical polarizationParking lot

Where Socar concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Socar and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Socar's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Socar appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across Socar's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Socar deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Socar's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Socar

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Socar on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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