Linear Venture

Status

Active

Location

Shanghai, China

Total investments

94

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

59

Rounds per year

9.40

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyEnterpriseArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareRobotics

Summary

Linear Venture appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main department of described VC is located in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Linear Venture is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Linear Venture, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, China Growth Capital, Voyager Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital China, IDG Capital, China Growth Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital China, Qiming Venture Partners, IDG Capital.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Horizon Robotics, WM Motor, Tongdun Technology.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
94
Lead investments
13
Exits
1
Rounds per year
9.40
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (32)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Internet (15)
  • Robotics (14)
  • Analytics (14)
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Investments by region
  • China (83)
  • United States (2)
  • Singapore (4)
  • Germany (3)
  • Bangladesh (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
227M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Guandata 22 Feb 2022 Analytics, Enterprise Late Stage Venture 43M Zhejiang, Shangcheng District, China
Sensors Data 12 Apr 2018 Internet, Analytics, Information Technology, Information Services, Big Data Late Stage Venture 44M Beijing, Haidian District, China
Verticly 01 Mar 2014 E-Commerce, Internet, Advertising, Brand Marketing Seed 650K United Kingdom, London, England

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