IMO Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Mateo, United States

Total investments

51

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

6.38

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.20

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceTransportationSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageCloud ComputingBlockchain

Summary

IMO Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Mateo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the IMO Ventures, startups are often financed by Wisconsin Investment Partners, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Serena Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital China, Linear Venture, FREES FUND. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Social Capital, NGP Capital, HarbourVest Partners.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Last Mile Transportation, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lime, Cobo, Conflux Foundation.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from IMO Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataFintechConsumer/RetailHealthcare
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
ChinaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
51
Lead investments
6
Rounds per year
6.38
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
  • Software (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Blockchain (5)
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Investments by region
  • China (23)
  • United States (13)
  • Colombia (2)
  • Singapore (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
58M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Houmo.AI 04 Mar 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Semiconductor Seed Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Lyte 01 Jan 2020 Software, Information Technology, Mobile, Mobile Apps Seed 2M United States, California, San Mateo

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