CID Group

Total investments

69

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

2.65

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

36

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailEducationManufacturingComputerVideoSemiconductorElectronics

Summary

CID Group appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Shanghai.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the CID Group, startups are often financed by Sierra Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sierra Ventures, Cathay Financial Holding, Norwest Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cathay Financial Holding, Norwest Venture Partners, Western Digital Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, EdTech. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ambow Education, TZero Technologies, Weka.IO For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this CID Group performs on 6 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
5
Exits
36
Rounds per year
2.65
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (28)
  • Electronics (18)
  • Semiconductor (17)
  • Software (13)
  • Video (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • China (16)
  • France (1)
  • Taiwan (34)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2007
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
30M
Group Appearance index
0.39
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.29
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
56.com 01 Dec 2007 Social/Platform Software, E-Commerce, Content, Video Early Stage Venture 20M Guangdong Province, Yuexiu District, China
CyCraft 31 Aug 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber Security Early Stage Venture 2M Taiwan, New Taipei
Shanhuishou 28 Feb 2018 Internet, Consumer Electronics, Trading Platform Early Stage Venture 15M Guangdong Province, Futian District, China

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