Mekong Capital

Total investments

48

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

2.09

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
Financial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologyConsumerEducationManufacturingLendingService IndustryIndustrialTrading Platform

Summary

Mekong Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The venture was found in Asia in Vietnam. The main department of described VC is located in the Hanoi.

The fund was created by Chris Freund. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kaizen Private Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TPG, Kaizen Private Equity, Granite Oak Advisors.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Mekong Capital works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Gioi Di Dong, Asia Chemical Corporation, Loc Troi Group. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Vietnam. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Paper Manufacturing.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
7
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.09
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (13)
  • Retail (7)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Consumer (4)
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Investments by region
  • Vietnam (43)
  • Singapore (1)
  • China (1)
  • Spain (1)
  • Jamaica (2)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.10
Avg. company exit year
10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
F88 03 Mar 2023 Financial Services, Consumer, Lending, Trading Platform Late Stage Venture 47M Hanoi, Vietnam

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