DCM Ventures

Summary

In 1996 was created DCM Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by David Chao, Dixon Doll. The overall number of key employees were 11.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the DCM Ventures, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Qiming Venture Partners, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Sequoia Capital China, Highland Capital Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Renren Inc., Social Finance (SoFi), Uxin For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Mobile. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. When the investment is from DCM Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this DCM Ventures performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.