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Mekong Capital

Founders Chris Freund

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 2.09
Lead investments 7
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Consumer
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gene Solutions

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$21M20 Sep 2023 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

F88

Consumer
Financial Services
Lending
Trading Platform
$47M03 Mar 2023 Hanoi, Vietnam

Entobel

Agriculture
Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Farming
$30M09 May 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pharmacity

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Retail
$31M03 Feb 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

MWG - Mobile World Group

Consumer Electronics
15 May 2007 Vietnam, Saint James, Jamaica

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Total investments 48
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 2.09
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.10

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gene Solutions

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$21M20 Sep 2023 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

F88

Consumer
Financial Services
Lending
Trading Platform
$47M03 Mar 2023 Hanoi, Vietnam

Entobel

Agriculture
Animal Feed
Biotechnology
Farming
$30M09 May 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pharmacity

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Retail
$31M03 Feb 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

MWG - Mobile World Group

Consumer Electronics
15 May 2007 Vietnam, Saint James, Jamaica
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