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Legend Star

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Total investments 161
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 131
Rounds per year 10.73
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

Legend Star appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Legend Star works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Legend Star the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pony.ai, Burning Rock Biotech, Orvibo. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Information Technology. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Legend Star, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Comet Labs, The Cross Country Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Legend Capital, Sequoia Capital China, LYFE Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital China, Legend Capital, Baidu Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ENSEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$10M23 Oct 2023 Medford, Massachusetts, United States

Carbon Energy Technology

Energy
Mining
Mining Technology
Natural Resources
$15M01 Sep 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

CoJourney

Biopharma
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$30M27 Jun 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

China Reserve National Energy

Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
Industrial
$154M29 May 2023 -

Rgenta Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$52M29 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Juexin Technology

Communications Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
28 Sep 2022 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

J-Elephant

Industrial Automation
Manufacturing
Robotics
27 Apr 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

Aiden Technology

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Consulting
$18M31 Mar 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

Tensor Security

16 Mar 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

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Total investments 161
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 10.73
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ENSEM Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$10M23 Oct 2023 Medford, Massachusetts, United States

Carbon Energy Technology

Energy
Mining
Mining Technology
Natural Resources
$15M01 Sep 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

CoJourney

Biopharma
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$30M27 Jun 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

China Reserve National Energy

Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
Industrial
$154M29 May 2023 -

Rgenta Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$52M29 Nov 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Juexin Technology

Communications Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
28 Sep 2022 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

J-Elephant

Industrial Automation
Manufacturing
Robotics
27 Apr 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

Aiden Technology

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Consulting
$18M31 Mar 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

Tensor Security

16 Mar 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China
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