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Genesis Capital

Founders Richard Peng

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$88M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 7.00
Lead investments 15
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Network Hardware
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
Summary

Genesis Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The main department of described VC is located in the Atlanta. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Christopher Aiello. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Trading Platform, Blockchain. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xiaohongshu, Meicai, Zhangmen.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Genesis Capital, startups are often financed by DCM Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners China, Tencent Holdings, Exigent Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Matrix Partners China, Exigent Capital, Tiger Global Management.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Genesis Capital performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Genesis Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flare Network

Blockchain
Network Hardware
$11M08 Jun 2021 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 42
Average round size 88M
Rounds per year 7.00
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.20
Group Appearance index 0.05

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flare Network

Blockchain
Network Hardware
$11M08 Jun 2021 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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