Enspire Capital

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Total investments

40

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

1.48

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityDigital MediaVideo Streaming

Summary

Enspire Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Singapore. The venture was found in Asia in Singapore.

The current fund was established by CHAY Kwong Soon. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Enspire Capital performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Enspire Capital, startups are often financed by UOB Venture, Quest Venture Partners, FLOODGATE. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UOB Venture, Plug and Play, Safeguard Scientifics. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UOB Venture, Safeguard Scientifics, Bahrain Middle East Bank.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FiscalNote, Tripping.com, Centec Networks. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Security. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
TelecommunicationsMedia/ContentCloud/InfrastructureB2B/EnterpriseIoT
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
BahrainCambodiaChinaCyprusEast Timor Show 33 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
4
Exits
11
Rounds per year
1.48
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • SaaS (9)
  • Security (7)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Digital Media (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (31)
  • Singapore (3)
  • China (4)
  • Taiwan (2)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
53M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.04
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ReplyBuy 05 Oct 2015 Messaging, SaaS, SMS, Mobile Payments, CRM Seed 2M United States, Arizona, Scottsdale
Single Pass 02 Aug 2022 Seed 460K
Viewtrix Technology 01 Oct 2015 Early Stage Venture Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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