China Merchants Securities

Total investments

40

Average round size

60M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

1.21

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

17

Areas of investment
AutomotiveBiotechnologyGamingFood and BeverageHealth CareManufacturingMedicalHardwareMedia and EntertainmentService Industry

Summary

China Merchants Securities appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1991. The company was established in Asia in China. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Shenzhen.

We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SenseTime, GRAIL, Kingsoft Cloud.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 participants. Despite the China Merchants Securities, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, BlueRun Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CICC, Zhongping Capital, ZJ Innopark (Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kingsoft, Tiger Global Management, Temasek Holdings.

The typical startup value when the investment from China Merchants Securities is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
1
Exits
17
Rounds per year
1.21
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Medical (5)
  • Hardware (4)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (37)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
374M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
3.87
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aoquan 05 Aug 2022 Early Stage Venture 15M Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Jifan Biotechnology 13 Dec 2021 Biotechnology, Medical Device, Life Science, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 15M Beijing, Changping, China
Nezasa 07 Aug 2013 Information Technology, B2B, Travel, Tourism Seed 370K Switzerland, Zurich
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