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Morningside Venture Capital

Founders Ken Shi Richard Liu

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Total investments 281
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$72M
Portfolio companies 159
Rounds per year 17.56
Lead investments 55
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 15
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xinchen New Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Manufacturing
$15M08 Jan 2024 Chuzhou, Anhui, China

Ji Zhao Energy Storage

Battery
Energy
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
04 Dec 2023 Wuhan, Hubei, China

AGORA

B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Software
$70K17 Oct 2023 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

BOTINKIT

Big Data
Robotics
$13M19 Jul 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Hopewell Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$25M02 Jun 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Makino micro

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M10 Apr 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

NOWCODER

Database
Information Technology
Training
$50M24 Feb 2023 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Share Creators Inc.

Art
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Product Design
Productivity Tools
Project Management
Software
Video Games
$5M20 Jan 2023 Burlingame, California, United States

Youhualin

Big Data
Software
$15M16 Oct 2022 Changning District, China

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Total investments 281
Average round size 72M
Rounds per year 17.56
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 55
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xinchen New Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Manufacturing
$15M08 Jan 2024 Chuzhou, Anhui, China

Ji Zhao Energy Storage

Battery
Energy
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
04 Dec 2023 Wuhan, Hubei, China

AGORA

B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Software
$70K17 Oct 2023 Moscow, Moscow, Russia

BOTINKIT

Big Data
Robotics
$13M19 Jul 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Hopewell Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$25M02 Jun 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Makino micro

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M10 Apr 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

NOWCODER

Database
Information Technology
Training
$50M24 Feb 2023 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Share Creators Inc.

Art
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Product Design
Productivity Tools
Project Management
Software
Video Games
$5M20 Jan 2023 Burlingame, California, United States

Youhualin

Big Data
Software
$15M16 Oct 2022 Changning District, China
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