Mustang Ventures

Total investments

13

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

13

Lead investments

3

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingAdvertisingTelecommunicationsOptical CommunicationNetwork Hardware

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Shanghai. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Mustang Ventures, startups are often financed by Star Ventures, Siemens Mustang Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Intel Capital, Amerindo Investment Advisors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Star Ventures, Next47, Worldview Technology Partners.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Clustra Systems, CODEON, Etology.com Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Biotechnology.

Comparing to the other companies, this Mustang Ventures performs on 25 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Mustang Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2001. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
3
Exits
7
Investments by industry
  • Telecommunications (4)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Advertising (2)
  • Software (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • China (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.65

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Network Photonics 23 Oct 2000 Manufacturing, Communication Hardware, Network Hardware Early Stage Venture 106M United States, Boulder, Colorado

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