Photon Fund

Total investments

13

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

1.44

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyBroadcastingHealth CareWellnessManufacturingMedicalTherapeuticsVideoNanotechnologyOperating Systems

Summary

Photon Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Shenzhen. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Photon Fund, startups are often financed by ZTEVC, Kaitai Capital, KTB Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UPC Renewables, Legend Capital, KTB Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vinno Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by David Wang, Qing Zhu. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CARsgen Therapeutics, Nelumbo, Hongliyu Cinema We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Hardware, Medical. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.44
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Therapeutics (3)
  • Medical (3)
  • Wellness (2)
  • Health Care (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (6)
  • United States (7)
Peak activity year
2018

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Group Appearance index
0.92

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FutureMove Automotive 15 Nov 2017 Automotive, Transportation, Car Sharing Early Stage Venture 7M Beijing, Beijing, China
Newomics 01 Dec 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care, Wellness Early Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Berkeley

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