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GWC Innovator Fund

Founders Barrett Parkman Wen Chu

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 5.17
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Internet
Summary

GWC Innovator Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intarcia Therapeutics, XPeng Motors, GrubMarket. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Retail Technology.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this GWC Innovator Fund works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from GWC Innovator Fund is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The current fund was established by Barrett Parkman, Wen Chu. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the GWC Innovator Fund, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Sequoia Capital India, Outbox ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Great Oaks Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GGV Capital, Chiratae Ventures, Chinaccelerator.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FriendlyData

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Database
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Software
17 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Baby
Family
Marketplace
Rental
Sharing Economy
Travel
$1M19 Apr 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Edwin

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
Machine Learning
$1M15 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

EvaBot

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Gift
Information Technology
Virtual Assistant
$1M01 Dec 2017 California, United States

Scoutible

Big Data
Human Resources
Recruiting
Video Games
$5M25 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Visabot

Artificial Intelligence
GovTech
Internet
Service Industry
01 Aug 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Augmented Reality
Computer
Developer Platform
Software
01 Jun 2017 Ohio, United States

StockViews

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
$685K16 May 2017 England

Mama+

EdTech
Education
Internet
07 Apr 2017 Beijing

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Total investments 31
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 5.17
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.48

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FriendlyData

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Database
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Software
17 Aug 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Baby
Family
Marketplace
Rental
Sharing Economy
Travel
$1M19 Apr 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Edwin

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
Education
Language Learning
Machine Learning
$1M15 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

EvaBot

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Gift
Information Technology
Virtual Assistant
$1M01 Dec 2017 California, United States

Scoutible

Big Data
Human Resources
Recruiting
Video Games
$5M25 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Visabot

Artificial Intelligence
GovTech
Internet
Service Industry
01 Aug 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

Augmented Reality
Computer
Developer Platform
Software
01 Jun 2017 Ohio, United States

StockViews

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
$685K16 May 2017 England

Mama+

EdTech
Education
Internet
07 Apr 2017 Beijing
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