Bitmain

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Beijing, China

Total investments

44

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

4.00

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchainTrading Platform

Summary

Bitmain is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2013. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Beijing.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Financial Services. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Circle Internet Financial, Liquid Global, Block.one. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The average startup value when the investment from Bitmain is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The fund was created by Jihan Wu, Micree Zhan. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Bitmain, startups are often financed by General Catalyst, Digital Currency Group, Breyer Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDG Capital, Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Digital Finance Group, Zhongyunhui Capital, Virtu Financial.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
44
Lead investments
17
Exits
2
Rounds per year
4.00
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Blockchain (15)
  • Cryptocurrency (12)
  • Internet (12)
  • Software (10)
  • Financial Services (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • Singapore (5)
  • China (16)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Japan (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
373M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.69
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MeinAuto 04 Aug 2011 Automotive, Logistics, Car Sharing, Autonomous Vehicles Late Stage Venture North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, Germany
SAIHEAT 01 Jun 2020 Cloud Computing, Data Center, Hardware Seed 1M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China
Shentu Chain 12 Mar 2024 Seed Central Region, Singapore, Singapore
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