Pacific 8 Ventures

Total investments

19

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

2.38

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.32

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalGeneticsMedicalHealth InsuranceInsurTechPersonal Health

Summary

In 2015 was created Pacific 8 Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in Taiwan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Taipei.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The fund was created by Chris Shu, Jack Liang, Ser-Chen Fu. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Karius, Multiply Labs, Fauna Bio For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Pacific 8 Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Three Leaf Ventures, StartUp Health. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are aMoon Fund, Three Leaf Ventures, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Webb Investment Network, Tom Williams.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
2.38
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (13)
  • Medical (9)
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Genetics (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (18)
  • Austria (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
106M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Certainly Health 13 Dec 2023 Health Care Seed 2M United States, New York, New York
Fauna Bio 11 Apr 2019 Biotechnology, Health Care, Hospital, Medical Seed 4M United States, California, Berkeley
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