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Dark Horse Ventures

Founders Wenwen Niu

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 3.90
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Food and Beverage
  • Manufacturing
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Haidian. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Dark Horse Ventures, startups are often financed by Triniti Capital, Startupbootcamp, S.F. Express. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QC Capital, K2VC, S.F. Express. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ZhenFund, Shenzhen Gemboom Investment Management, Qualcomm Ventures.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The fund was created by Wenwen Niu.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cbeidou Supply Chain, COHO, Vphoto. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tuyun Space

Computer
Information Technology
01 Mar 2022 Haidian, Beijing, China

Maicong Software

Database
Software
08 Feb 2022 Huairou, Beijing, China

Weidong Time and Space

Aerospace
Manufacturing
$1M01 Dec 2021 Beijing, Beijing, China

Thoth Medical

01 Jul 2021 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Sensedeal

09 May 2021 Haidian, Beijing, China

Sensedeal

06 Jan 2020 Haidian, Beijing, China

United AI

21 Oct 2019 Hexi, Tianjin

Qukoucai

E-Learning
Education
09 Jul 2019 China, Beijing

Icsuperman.com

Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
$463K01 Feb 2019 Xuhui, Shanghai

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Total investments 39
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 3.90
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tuyun Space

Computer
Information Technology
01 Mar 2022 Haidian, Beijing, China

Maicong Software

Database
Software
08 Feb 2022 Huairou, Beijing, China

Weidong Time and Space

Aerospace
Manufacturing
$1M01 Dec 2021 Beijing, Beijing, China

Thoth Medical

01 Jul 2021 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Sensedeal

09 May 2021 Haidian, Beijing, China

Sensedeal

06 Jan 2020 Haidian, Beijing, China

United AI

21 Oct 2019 Hexi, Tianjin

Qukoucai

E-Learning
Education
09 Jul 2019 China, Beijing

Icsuperman.com

Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
$463K01 Feb 2019 Xuhui, Shanghai
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