Gobi Partners

Summary

Gobi Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Shanghai. The venture was found in Asia in China.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Airwallex, Kr Space, 36Kr Media We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Travel, Financial Services. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The fund was created by Thomas Tsao. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Gobi Partners works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Gobi Partners the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Gobi Partners, startups are often financed by JAFCO Asia, East Ventures, Convergence Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Convergence Ventures, 500 Startups, JAFCO Asia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, InnoVen Capital, Sequoia Capital.