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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 1.31
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 18
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Software
Summary

The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Guangzhou. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Canada. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise, Photography. 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyndra Therapeutics, PingPong, ARTMS.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This GF Securities works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from GF Securities the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the GF Securities, startups are often financed by Yaletown Partners, Quark Venture, CTI Life Sciences Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yonghua Capital, Yaletown Partners, Suffolk Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Quark Venture, Sinowisdom, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Regenex Corporation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$15M16 Jun 2023 -

Viiyong

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$309M16 Aug 2022 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Volastra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
$12M11 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$19M29 May 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Yixiaoshi Kuaixiu

Consumer
Mobile
Retail
Service Industry
$27K03 Feb 2018 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China

Bioarray Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$4M05 Oct 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Fotor

Computer
Mobile Apps
Photo Editing
Photography
Social Media Marketing
Software
Web Apps
$7M20 Sep 2017 Sichuan

Physiq

Analytics
Commercial
Health Care
Predictive Analytics
$8M25 Jul 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$10M27 Jun 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Total investments 42
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 1.31
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Regenex Corporation

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$15M16 Jun 2023 -

Viiyong

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$309M16 Aug 2022 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Volastra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
$12M11 Feb 2020 New York, New York, United States

Pi Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$19M29 May 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Yixiaoshi Kuaixiu

Consumer
Mobile
Retail
Service Industry
$27K03 Feb 2018 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China

Bioarray Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
$4M05 Oct 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Fotor

Computer
Mobile Apps
Photo Editing
Photography
Social Media Marketing
Software
Web Apps
$7M20 Sep 2017 Sichuan

Physiq

Analytics
Commercial
Health Care
Predictive Analytics
$8M25 Jul 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

PHEMI Systems Corp.

Analytics
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Cloud Data Services
Cloud Security
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
Privacy
SaaS
$10M27 Jun 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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