Chengwei Capital

Total investments

101

Average round size

30M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

4.04

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyB2BMobileHealth CareAppsManufacturingHardware

Summary

Chengwei Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shanghai.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Chengwei Capital, startups are often financed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Source Code Capital, Farallon Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Source Code Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunqi Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Source Code Capital, Ant Financial.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Service Industry. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Youku, Hellobike, Apus Group The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China.

The fund was created by Eric X Li. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Chengwei Capital performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Chengwei Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
101
Lead investments
24
Exits
6
Rounds per year
4.04
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Internet (15)
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Health Care (10)
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Investments by region
  • China (77)
  • United States (16)
  • Germany (2)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
124M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BEM Power 27 Dec 2022 Early Stage Venture 15M Bayern, Ingolstadt, Germany
Jushu Biotech 13 Jan 2023 Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical, Biopharma Seed 1M Beijing, Changping, China

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