Northern Light Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

440

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

316

Rounds per year

23.16

Lead investments

59

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

37

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareManufacturingMedical

Summary

Northern Light Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The main department of described VC is located in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Northern Light Venture Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Northern Light Venture Capital works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dianrong, Vipkid, Meituan.com. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Semiconductor.

The current fund was established by Feng Deng, Yan Ke. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Northern Light Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital China, Sinovation Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners China, Sinovation Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IDG Capital, New Enterprise Associates, SAIF Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseHealthcareConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
440
Lead investments
59
Exits
37
Rounds per year
23.16
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (71)
  • Medical (62)
  • Manufacturing (57)
  • Internet (55)
  • Biotechnology (49)
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Investments by region
  • China (355)
  • United States (62)
  • Singapore (3)
  • South Korea (7)
  • Germany (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
16
Number of Minotaurs
11

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
896M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
8.27
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Biobiggen 01 Jan 2021 Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Genetics, Medical Seed Beijing, Daxing, China
Oriental Qiyin 01 Feb 2021 Late Stage Venture Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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