5Y Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Shanghai, China

Total investments

286

Average round size

71M

Portfolio companies

160

Rounds per year

17.88

Lead investments

59

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareAppsMedical

Summary

Morningside Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Xuhui. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Morningside Venture Capital performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Morningside Venture Capital is more than 1 billion dollars.

This organization was formed by Richard Liu. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xiaomi, SenseTime, XPeng Motors. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biopharma, Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Morningside Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, Morningside Group, Matrix Partners China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital China, Gaorong Capital, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital China, Tencent Holdings.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 700000000
Fund raised date
2023-11-29

Analytics

Total investments
286
Lead investments
59
Exits
15
Rounds per year
17.88
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (65)
  • Internet (53)
  • Software (39)
  • Health Care (29)
  • Biotechnology (29)
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Investments by region
  • China (239)
  • United States (30)
  • India (3)
  • Russia (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
18
Number of Decacorns
21
Number of Minotaurs
12

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
862M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
61.29
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
neoX Biotech 08 Jul 2021 Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Product Research Early Stage Venture Beijing, Beijing, China
On the Road Store 01 Jan 2022 E-Commerce, Apps, Media and Entertainment Early Stage Venture Beijing, Haidian District, China
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