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Himalaya Capital Ventures

Founders Li Lu

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Social Network
  • Software
  • Advertising
  • Developer Tools
Summary

In 1997 was created Himalaya Capital Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Pasadena.

The fund was created by Li Lu.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Himalaya Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Highland Capital Partners, FirstMark, Third Kind Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Highland Capital Partners, Lauder Partners, TSG Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Highland Capital Partners, Lauder Partners, YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital).

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2008. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Opposing the other organizations, this Himalaya Capital Ventures works on 15 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Developer Tools. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aereo, aMedia, Knovel. The fund has no exact preference in some 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 - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aereo

Digital Media
TV
Video Streaming
$34M07 Jan 2014 New York, United States

7thOnline

E-Commerce
Retail
Wholesale
$2M01 Oct 2001 New York, New York, United States

7thOnline

E-Commerce
Retail
Wholesale
$3M01 Aug 2001 New York, New York, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$20M26 Feb 2001 Massachusetts, United States

ClubMom

Digital Media
Internet
Social Network
$36M31 Jul 2000 New York, New York, United States

Navic Systems

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M08 Jun 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$20M07 Jun 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$2M14 Feb 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Navic Systems

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M15 Jan 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aereo

Digital Media
TV
Video Streaming
$34M07 Jan 2014 New York, United States

7thOnline

E-Commerce
Retail
Wholesale
$2M01 Oct 2001 New York, New York, United States

7thOnline

E-Commerce
Retail
Wholesale
$3M01 Aug 2001 New York, New York, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$20M26 Feb 2001 Massachusetts, United States

ClubMom

Digital Media
Internet
Social Network
$36M31 Jul 2000 New York, New York, United States

Navic Systems

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$20M08 Jun 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$20M07 Jun 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Navic Networks

Advertising
Developer Tools
Internet
Social Network
Software
$2M14 Feb 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Navic Systems

Mobile
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M15 Jan 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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