Baidu Ventures

Summary

Baidu Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Baidu Ventures, startups are often financed by Legend Star, Shunwei Capital, ZhenFund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shunwei Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures, Sequoia Capital China. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shunwei Capital, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG), Legend Capital.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Baidu Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Baidu Ventures works on 28 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Taihe Music Group, Insilico Medicine, Atomwise. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.