GWC Innovator Fund

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.