FountainVest Partners

Total investments

22

Average round size

471M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.29

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetRetailArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareAppsMedicalMarketingPharmaceuticalMedia and Entertainment

Summary

FountainVest Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The venture was found in Asia in Hong Kong. The main department of described VC is located in the Central.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from FountainVest Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This FountainVest Partners works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Frank Tang. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the FountainVest Partners, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital), WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trustbridge Partners, Tencent Holdings, DST Global.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Online Auctions, E-Commerce. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Meituan-Dianping, Guazi (Chehaoduo), FangDD.com. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
9
Exits
7
Rounds per year
1.29
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (6)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Apps (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Retail (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (19)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
1.52
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Plus.ai 01 Mar 2021 Logistics, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles Late Stage Venture 100M United States, California, Cupertino

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