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Mustang Ventures

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$37M
Portfolio companies 13
Lead investments 3
Exits 7
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
  • E-Commerce
  • Advertising
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Profex

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$15M28 Aug 2008 Pudong, China

Touchmedia

Advertising
Marketing
Taxi Service
$14M27 Mar 2008 Shanghai, China

LEAD Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$17M05 Nov 2007 California, United States

Etology.com

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
$4M14 Nov 2006 Burbank, California, United States

Followap

Messaging
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M05 Jun 2001 England

Clustra Systems

Computer
Database
Information Technology
$19M25 Apr 2001 United States, Oakland

Network Photonics

Communication Hardware
Manufacturing
Network Hardware
$106M23 Oct 2000 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Agility Communications

Connectivity Products
Laser
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$70M11 Oct 2000 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Chiaro Networks

Internet
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$100M25 Sep 2000 Richardson, Texas, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 37M
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Profex

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Pharmaceutical
$15M28 Aug 2008 Pudong, China

Touchmedia

Advertising
Marketing
Taxi Service
$14M27 Mar 2008 Shanghai, China

LEAD Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$17M05 Nov 2007 California, United States

Etology.com

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
$4M14 Nov 2006 Burbank, California, United States

Followap

Messaging
Telecommunications
Wireless
$2M05 Jun 2001 England

Clustra Systems

Computer
Database
Information Technology
$19M25 Apr 2001 United States, Oakland

Network Photonics

Communication Hardware
Manufacturing
Network Hardware
$106M23 Oct 2000 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Agility Communications

Connectivity Products
Laser
Manufacturing
Optical Communication
$70M11 Oct 2000 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Chiaro Networks

Internet
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$100M25 Sep 2000 Richardson, Texas, United States
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