China Merchants Capital

Total investments

143

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

128

Rounds per year

11.92

Lead investments

39

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareRoboticsManufacturingService Industry

Summary

China Merchants Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shenzhen.

When the investment is from China Merchants Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This China Merchants Capital works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ouyeel, Pony.ai, Xueba100.com For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Logistics, Artificial Intelligence.

We also calculated 11 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the China Merchants Capital, startups are often financed by Gaorong Capital, Vertex Ventures, Morningside Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zhongchanng Data, Sinovation Ventures, Shanghai Momoying Investment Development Center (LP). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Source Code Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
143
Lead investments
39
Exits
7
Rounds per year
11.92
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (23)
  • Artificial Intelligence (15)
  • Automotive (14)
  • Software (14)
  • Robotics (14)
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Investments by region
  • China (132)
  • United States (3)
  • Israel (1)
  • Canada (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
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
101M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.00
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Dobot 15 Jan 2021 Robotics, Electronics, Industrial Automation Late Stage Venture 49M Guangdong Province, Futian District, China
SoarWhale 04 Sep 2023 Automotive, Manufacturing, Electronics Early Stage Venture 15M Jiangsu, Liyang, China

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