NIO Capital

Total investments

73

Average round size

52M

Portfolio companies

50

Rounds per year

9.12

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesElectronicsEnergy

Summary

NIO Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main department of described VC is located 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 3-4 partakers. Despite the NIO Capital, startups are often financed by U.S.-China Green Fund, Sinovation Ventures, Shunwei Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, Gaorong Capital, UnityVC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GGV Capital, Tencent Holdings, SK China.

The fund was created by William Li. Besides them, we counted 9 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Momenta, Black Sesame Technologies, AutoAI. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Sensor, Reservations.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from NIO Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
17
Exits
1
Rounds per year
9.12
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (30)
  • Transportation (15)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Manufacturing (13)
  • Energy (12)
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Investments by region
  • China (67)
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
180M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
35.00
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bibo 10 Apr 2023 Automotive, Enterprise, Autonomous Vehicles Early Stage Venture 30M Beijing, Fengtai, China
Qingchun Semiconductor 28 Dec 2023 Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics Early Stage Venture Shanghai, Baoshan, China

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