Linear Venture
Active
Shanghai, China
94
20M
59
9.40
13
0.37
1
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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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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) Show 81 more
- Investments by region
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- China (83)
- United States (2)
- Singapore (4)
- Germany (3)
- Bangladesh (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- 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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