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CLSA

Founders Gary Coull Jim Walker

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$74M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.35
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 4
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Retail
  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
Summary

In 1986 was created CLSA, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Hong Kong. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Hong Kong.

The current fund was established by Gary Coull, Jim Walker. We also calculated 11 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the CLSA, startups are often financed by Wu Capital, M Ventures, Jazz Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rothschild & Co., Groupe Siparex, Auriga Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Equity Partners, Triathlon Medical Venture Partners, New Science Ventures.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Biotechnology. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, BioVex, Akili Interactive Labs.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from CLSA the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This CLSA works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ubrigene

$15M01 Sep 2022 -

Know Your Customer

Compliance
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M30 Apr 2019 Hong Kong

Horizon Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Electronics
Machine Learning
Robotics
Semiconductor
$600M27 Feb 2019 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Akili Interactive Labs

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$13M09 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Azoya International

Cloud Management
Consulting
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
12 Dec 2016 Guangdong Province

Eve.com

Gamification
Gaming
Internet
Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$5M01 Dec 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Arkeia Software

Cyber Security
Flash Storage
Linux
Open Source
Software
$4M04 Aug 2004 Carlsbad, California, United States

Eve.com

Gamification
Gaming
Internet
Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$7M16 Jun 2004 San Francisco, California, United States

BioVex

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$23M06 Oct 2003 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 13
Average round size 74M
Rounds per year 0.35
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ubrigene

$15M01 Sep 2022 -

Know Your Customer

Compliance
Enterprise Software
FinTech
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M30 Apr 2019 Hong Kong

Horizon Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Electronics
Machine Learning
Robotics
Semiconductor
$600M27 Feb 2019 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Akili Interactive Labs

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Therapeutics
$13M09 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Azoya International

Cloud Management
Consulting
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Logistics
Retail
12 Dec 2016 Guangdong Province

Eve.com

Gamification
Gaming
Internet
Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$5M01 Dec 2006 San Francisco, California, United States

Arkeia Software

Cyber Security
Flash Storage
Linux
Open Source
Software
$4M04 Aug 2004 Carlsbad, California, United States

Eve.com

Gamification
Gaming
Internet
Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$7M16 Jun 2004 San Francisco, California, United States

BioVex

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$23M06 Oct 2003 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom
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