GIC

Total investments

315

Average round size

512M

Portfolio companies

233

Rounds per year

7.33

Lead investments

71

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

72

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceEnergy

Summary

In 1981 was created GIC, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Singapore. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Singapore.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the GIC, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, DCM Ventures, Temasek Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, Temasek Holdings, DST Global. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, SoftBank Investment Advisers, DST Global.

We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from GIC the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2019. This GIC works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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 - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Alibaba, Ant Financial, Xiaomi The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
315
Lead investments
71
Exits
72
Rounds per year
7.33
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (58)
  • Software (51)
  • FinTech (51)
  • Internet (38)
  • E-Commerce (32)
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Investments by region
  • China (49)
  • United States (93)
  • United Arab Emirates (5)
  • India (50)
  • United Kingdom (19)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
71
Number of Decacorns
95
Number of Minotaurs
66

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5B
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
4.78
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ant Group 08 Jun 2018 E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Banking, Wealth Management Late Stage Venture 14B Zhejiang, Shangcheng District, China
Euler Motors 03 Oct 2022 Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicle Late Stage Venture 62M Delhi, New Delhi, India

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