FAW Group

Total investments

11

Average round size

780M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.16

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesSemiconductorConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsElectric VehicleBattery

Summary

FAW Group is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1953. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Changchun.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the FAW Group, startups are often financed by Tencent Holdings, Suning, Fullshare Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tusholdings, Tencent Holdings, Suning Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Marubeni Corporation.

When the investment is from FAW Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BYTON, T3 Mobile Travel Services. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electric Vehicle, Ride Sharing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.16
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Autonomous Vehicles (4)
  • Automotive (3)
  • Semiconductor (3)
  • Electric Vehicle (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (9)
  • United States (1)
  • Taiwan (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
25
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ChipON 19 Sep 2022 Product Design, Hardware, Semiconductor, Electronics Late Stage Venture Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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