Horizons Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Hong Kong, China

Total investments

351

Average round size

41M

Portfolio companies

197

Rounds per year

14.04

Lead investments

90

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

32

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningHealth Care

Summary

In 1999 was created Horizons Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Hong Kong. The company was established in Asia in Hong Kong.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Hardware. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Facebook, Spotify, Airbnb. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

This organization was formed by Debbie Chang, Li Ka-shing, Solina Chau. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Horizons Ventures works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Horizons Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Horizons Ventures, startups are often financed by Social Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Temasek Holdings, Social Capital, Khosla Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, Mail.Ru Group, Khosla Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechBiotech/Life SciencesClimate techCommunity/Social network
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
351
Lead investments
90
Exits
32
Rounds per year
14.04
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (74)
  • Biotechnology (68)
  • Software (67)
  • Machine Learning (52)
  • Information Technology (40)
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Investments by region
  • United States (189)
  • Germany (19)
  • United Kingdom (36)
  • Australia (25)
  • Israel (23)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
14
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
719M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
9.33
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fano Labs 02 May 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Customer Service, Speech Recognition Early Stage Venture Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
ZeroAvia 18 Sep 2023 Aerospace, CleanTech, Air Transportation Late Stage Venture 116M United States, California

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