MSA Capital

Total investments

49

Average round size

64M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

7.00

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobilePaymentsHealth CareMobile AppsMarketplace

Summary

MSA Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in Asia in China. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing.

This organization was formed by Jenny Zeng. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the MSA Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners China, Ventech China, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Morningside Venture Capital.

Comparing to the other companies, this MSA Capital performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from MSA Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, Meituan-Dianping, NIO We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Fashion, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
6
Exits
2
Rounds per year
7.00
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Internet (7)
  • Payments (6)
  • Health Care (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • Sweden (1)
  • China (21)
  • United Arab Emirates (6)
  • Saudi Arabia (4)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3B
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.21
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
29 Jun 2021 Logistics Seed 3M Greater Accra Region, Accra, Ghana
Path 05 Jun 2012 Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care, Wellness, Messaging, Enterprise Software, Personal Health, Photo Sharing, Employee Benefits Early Stage Venture 0 United States, California, San Francisco
Yidu Cloud 15 Feb 2015 Health Care, Big Data, Database Early Stage Venture 0 Beijing, Dongcheng District, China

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