Hotung Venture Capital

Total investments

44

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

35

Rounds per year

1.63

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyEducationManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorElectronicsWireless

Summary

In 1997 was created Hotung Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in Taiwan. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Taipei.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no 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 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wireless, Telecommunications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Beijing LaKala Billing Services, VANCL, Canesta.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Hotung Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Storm Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Norwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Invesco, Redpoint, Qiming Venture Partners.

The important activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this Hotung Venture Capital performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
44
Lead investments
5
Exits
13
Rounds per year
1.63
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Semiconductor (9)
  • Software (8)
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Electronics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • China (18)
  • Israel (1)
  • Taiwan (3)
Peak activity year
2004
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
146M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.87

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Alteogen 01 Feb 2013 Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 0 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do
iKala 19 Aug 2020 Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Shopping Early Stage Venture 17M Taiwan, New Taipei
Rivos 16 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 250M United States, California, Mountain View
Shaweet 01 Oct 2011 Software, Information Technology, Computer Seed 31K

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