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CID Group

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 2.65
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 36
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductor
  • Software
  • Video
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Electric Vehicle
Innovation Management
Internet of Things
Software
31 Aug 2019 Shanghai

CyCraft

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
$5M02 Aug 2019 New Taipei

CyCraft

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
$2M31 Aug 2018 New Taipei

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$25M17 Feb 2016 California, United States

Waffles

Apps
Internet
Video
$1M10 Oct 2015 British Columbia

91APP

Apps
Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
PaaS
Retail
SaaS
Software
$9M24 Mar 2015 New Taipei

Pamily

Mobile Apps
Pet
Social Network
Video
Video Editing
$500K31 Jul 2014 New Taipei

Pamily

Mobile Apps
Pet
Social Network
Video
Video Editing
$100K01 Jan 2014 New Taipei

Gaming
MMO Games
Publishing
$5M01 Jul 2013 New Taipei

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Total investments 69
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 2.65
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 36
Group Appearance index 0.39

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Electric Vehicle
Innovation Management
Internet of Things
Software
31 Aug 2019 Shanghai

CyCraft

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
$5M02 Aug 2019 New Taipei

CyCraft

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
$2M31 Aug 2018 New Taipei

Weka.IO

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Storage
Data Center
Data Storage
Financial Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$25M17 Feb 2016 California, United States

Waffles

Apps
Internet
Video
$1M10 Oct 2015 British Columbia

91APP

Apps
Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
PaaS
Retail
SaaS
Software
$9M24 Mar 2015 New Taipei

Pamily

Mobile Apps
Pet
Social Network
Video
Video Editing
$500K31 Jul 2014 New Taipei

Pamily

Mobile Apps
Pet
Social Network
Video
Video Editing
$100K01 Jan 2014 New Taipei

Gaming
MMO Games
Publishing
$5M01 Jul 2013 New Taipei
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