Capital Today

Summary

Capital Today appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shanghai.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Capital Today, startups are often financed by Qiming Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital China, IDG Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDG Capital, Sequoia Capital China, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Qiming Venture Partners, IDG Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Capital Today performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Capital Today the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Video, Fashion. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline JD.com, Meituan-Dianping, Guazi (Chehaoduo) For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.