Cathay Innovation

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

126

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

87

Rounds per year

14.00

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareInsurance

Summary

In 2015 was created Cathay Innovation, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The average startup value when the investment from Cathay Innovation is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Cathay Innovation performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Cathay Innovation, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Accel, Via ID. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lightspeed China Partners, Ignition Partners, Greylock Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cathay Capital Private Equity, Tencent Holdings, Sequoia Capital China.

The current fund was established by Denis Barrier, Mingpo Cai. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pinduoduo, Chime, Meiyou.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseEcommerceFintechHealthcare Show 2 more
Stage focus
GeneralistSeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAlgeria Show 138 more
Check size
250K — 40M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 110000000
Fund raised date
2022-07-14

Analytics

Total investments
126
Lead investments
30
Exits
5
Rounds per year
14.00
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • FinTech (23)
  • Financial Services (20)
  • Artificial Intelligence (19)
  • Health Care (16)
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Investments by region
  • France (31)
  • United States (36)
  • Spain (14)
  • China (21)
  • Indonesia (3)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
582M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.79
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

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