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Amino Capital

Founders David Wei Jun Wu Larry Li

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Total investments 146
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 111
Rounds per year 12.17
Lead investments 19
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 16
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Mobile
Summary

Amino Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by David Wei. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Amino Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Social Starts, Zillionize Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CRCM Ventures, 500 Startups, Greylock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Crosslink Capital, Magma Venture Partners.

This Amino Capital works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Amino Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DFINITY, Chime, Human Longevity The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, SaaS. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Menusifu

Information Technology
Point of Sale
Restaurants
Software
$40M20 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Solve Intelligence

$3M28 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Artela

Apps
Blockchain
$6M12 Jul 2023 -

OddityRC

Manufacturing
Product Research
Sales
13 May 2023 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

POSH

CRM
Event Management
Event Promotion
Nightlife
Software
Ticketing
$3M27 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

DeepMusic

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Music
$9M03 Apr 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Firezone

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Network Security
Open Source
Privacy
Security
Software
$2M01 Apr 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

SilkChart

Digital Marketing
SaaS
$5M07 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Axoft

Electronics
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$8M18 Oct 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
AnChain.AI Raises $10M in Funding

– AnChain.AI is a San Francisco CA-based blockchain security company.
– Company raised $10M in funding.
– The round was led by SIG Asia Investments with participation from Fin VC, Nima Capital, Hard Yaka and Amino Capital.
– The new investment will be aimed at accelerating product development and recruitment across research and development, engineering, customer success and sales.

Fluid Biotech Raises $4.7MUSD in Seed Funding

– Fluid Biotech Inc. from Calgary, AB, Canada closed a $4.7m seed funding round.
– The round was led by Metis Innovative of Miami and ShangBay Capital of Palo Alto, California, with participation from new investors UCeed Health Fund and UCeed Child Health and Wellness Fund from the University of Calgary, Thin Air Labs, Wharton Alumni Angels, Amino Capital, Bluesky Equities, ThresholdImpact and Alabaster Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to engage contract manufacturers to initiate production, complete regulatory milestones, and plan for first-in-human implantation.

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Total investments 146
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 12.17
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Menusifu

Information Technology
Point of Sale
Restaurants
Software
$40M20 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Solve Intelligence

$3M28 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Artela

Apps
Blockchain
$6M12 Jul 2023 -

OddityRC

Manufacturing
Product Research
Sales
13 May 2023 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

POSH

CRM
Event Management
Event Promotion
Nightlife
Software
Ticketing
$3M27 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

DeepMusic

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Music
$9M03 Apr 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Firezone

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Network Security
Open Source
Privacy
Security
Software
$2M01 Apr 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

SilkChart

Digital Marketing
SaaS
$5M07 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Axoft

Electronics
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$8M18 Oct 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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