SAMG Animation, Selected as a “Future Unicorn”, Getting into their stride in New IP developments and Businesses for 2021

SAMG Animation (CEO Suhoon Kim), the producer of “Miniforce: Super Dino Power”, “CATCH! TEENIEPING : Fairies of Emotion”, and a co-producer of famous global brand “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir”, which is one of the leading Korean animation brand companies, has been selected as a ‘Future Unicorn company for Special Warranty 2020’, ‘National representative 1000 innovative companies in ICT industry’, and been awarded ‘A World-class Product Award’.

SAMG Animation is the only animation brand/production company among the newly selected future unicorn companies (along with other famous startups like Mulawear and Zigbang), and was highly praised for building a successful global business model with abundant experiences and know-how through numerous business collaborations with well-known global partners. The Future Unicorn Special Warranty, organized by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, is a project to select promising companies with high growth potential, and provides up to 10 Billion won (approximately 9 Million USD) of official guarantee in government leading funds.

Also, SAMG was selected for ‘National representative 1000 innovative companies in ICT industry’, which was organized by the Korean Financial Services Commission and participated by five government ministries (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries). SAMG’s major IP/animation ‘Miniforce’ was announced as the winner of ‘A World-class Product Award’ organized by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and certified by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, which proved this famous animated TV series has a strong ‘character power’. In 2020, SAMG released 3rd Season of their Miniforce series “Miniforce: Super Dino Power”, and 2 feature length animation, and distributed in 11 languages for more than 200 countries, including China and Southeast Asia, recorded an average annual growth rate of 87% over the past three years, and holds 195 intellectual property rights worldwide.

SAMG Animation CEO Mr. Suhoon Kim said, “SAMG Animation has more than 20 million YouTube subscribers, securing huge global kids fandom in the new media market. In the future, we will continue to introduce various product lineups such as education, cosmetics, and health functional foods based on our popular IPs. We also successfully attracted investment from six different organizations such as NH Investment & Securities, Sangsang Ventures, Gaya Venture Partners, Capital One, and History Investment Advisory, etc., in order to secure stable capital. Based on this, SAMG will buckle down new business, including IP development, e-commerce, etc.”