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Light-Up Capital

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.88
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Software
Summary

Light-Up Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Tianjin. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Light-Up Capital, startups are often financed by IDG Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDG Capital, ZhenFund, Lightspeed China Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IDG Capital, We Capital, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments).

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pumpkin Coach, Piaoniu, Zuodashi. The fund has exact preference in a number of 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 - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jodell Robotics

Machinery Manufacturing
Robotics
$7M31 Mar 2022 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zuodashi

Consumer
$3M03 Jan 2019 Putuo, Shanghai

TechSight

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Financial Services
Information Technology
Life Science
Payments
$463K13 Sep 2018 China, Wuwei, China

Piaoniu

E-Commerce
Online Portals
Ticketing
$11M09 Apr 2018 China, Shanghai

SoupMaster

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Retail
02 Mar 2018 Shanghai, China

Orange Dental

Health Care
09 Feb 2018 Shanghai, China

SoupMaster

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Retail
07 Dec 2017 Shanghai, China

USHOPAL

Apps
E-Commerce
Internet
$1M01 Jan 2017 China, Shanghai

WITHWHEAT

Bakery
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
$3M23 Dec 2016 Haidian District, Beijing, China

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Total investments 15
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.88
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jodell Robotics

Machinery Manufacturing
Robotics
$7M31 Mar 2022 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zuodashi

Consumer
$3M03 Jan 2019 Putuo, Shanghai

TechSight

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Financial Services
Information Technology
Life Science
Payments
$463K13 Sep 2018 China, Wuwei, China

Piaoniu

E-Commerce
Online Portals
Ticketing
$11M09 Apr 2018 China, Shanghai

SoupMaster

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Retail
02 Mar 2018 Shanghai, China

Orange Dental

Health Care
09 Feb 2018 Shanghai, China

SoupMaster

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Retail
07 Dec 2017 Shanghai, China

USHOPAL

Apps
E-Commerce
Internet
$1M01 Jan 2017 China, Shanghai

WITHWHEAT

Bakery
Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
$3M23 Dec 2016 Haidian District, Beijing, China
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