Dark Horse Ventures

Total investments

39

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

3.90

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsBeautySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingTrainingEducationManufacturing

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.90
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Education (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Food and Beverage (4)
  • Manufacturing (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (37)
  • Mexico (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
159M
Group Appearance index
0.74

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