Highlight Capital

Total investments

102

Average round size

36M

Portfolio companies

84

Rounds per year

10.20

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

5

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalBiopharmaClinical Trials

Summary

Highlight Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main department of described VC is located in the Nanjin. The company was established in Asia in China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Highlight Capital, startups are often financed by WI Harper Group, Qiming Venture Partners, Prometheus Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wu Capital, V Star Capital, Sequoia Capital China. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Aphelion Capital, Wu Capital, SDIC Fund Management.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chemclin, Quyi Network, Imago BioSciences. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Biopharma. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Highlight Capital performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
102
Lead investments
26
Exits
5
Rounds per year
10.20
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (58)
  • Biotechnology (34)
  • Medical (27)
  • Pharmaceutical (24)
  • Biopharma (16)
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Investments by region
  • China (92)
  • United States (6)
  • Portugal (1)
  • Indonesia (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
14
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tripod Preclinical Research Laboratories 12 Apr 2023 Pharmaceutical, Biopharma Late Stage Venture 5M Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Wuxi Gongwang 10 May 2024 Seed Jiangsu, Wuxi Shi, China
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