Darwin Venture Management

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Taipei, Taiwan

Total investments

94

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

6.27

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

7

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareMobile AppsManufacturingTravelHospitality

Summary

Darwin Venture Management is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Taipei. The company was established in Asia in Taiwan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Darwin Venture Management, startups are often financed by Ventek Ventures, Paul Wu, Ian Kung. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Accord Ventures, WI Harper Group.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Taiwan. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Market Research. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kdan Mobile Software, AsiaYo.

The fund was created by Simon Fang, Yao-Ting Wang.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesConsumer/RetailDeep TechSemiconductorsTelecommunications
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
TaiwanUnited States, Silicon Valley

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
94
Lead investments
5
Exits
7
Rounds per year
6.27
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (25)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Manufacturing (16)
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Internet (7)
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Investments by region
  • Taiwan (46)
  • United States (14)
  • Japan (5)
  • Singapore (1)
  • China (6)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.26
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
10.00
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Jubo 15 Apr 2023 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Home Health Care, Internet of Things, Elder Care Early Stage Venture 5M New Taipei, Taiwan
SandForce 01 Oct 2009 Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Flash Storage Seed United States, California, Milpitas
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