Empower Investment
168
1M
142
14.00
2
0.15
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Empower Investment appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Shanghai.
The fund was created by Harry Yu, Min Zhang. The overall number of key employees were 6.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hardware, Apps. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Whalehouse Technology, NewsCred, DeepTech. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Empower Investment works on 28 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2016.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Empower Investment, startups are often financed by Mayfield Fund, FirstMark, Advancit Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hongdao Capital, Qianfeng Capital, Zhonglu Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Baidu Ventures, Matrix Partners China, GSR Ventures.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 168
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 14.00
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (25)
- E-Commerce (17)
- Internet (16)
- Software (14)
- Artificial Intelligence (12) Show 114 more
- Investments by region
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- China (114)
- United States (14)
- India (3)
- South Korea (1)
- Netherlands (2) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2016
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 9M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.24
- Avg. company exit year
- 3
- Avg. multiplicator
- 8.83
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hongpeng Airlines | 03 Jun 2024 | Early Stage Venture | 15M | Jiangsu, Wuxi Shi, China | |
| Tangshi Logistics | 01 Jun 2018 | Logistics | Early Stage Venture | Zhejiang, Shangcheng District, China |
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