Plum Ventures

Status

Active

Location

Changzhou, China

Total investments

229

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

207

Rounds per year

22.90

Lead investments

39

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

6

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageHealth CareEducationManufacturingMedia and Entertainment

Summary

Plum Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Changzhou.

The fund was created by Shichun Wu.

When the investment is from Plum Ventures the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Plum Ventures works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Plum Ventures, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Innoangel Fund, Fortune Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are K2VC, Innoangel Fund, Amphora Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Matrix Partners China, Sky9 Capital, Fortune Venture Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, E-Commerce. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chaoneng Xiaohei, 24Kick, Yuncaiyuan.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
229
Lead investments
39
Exits
6
Rounds per year
22.90
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Internet (23)
  • Manufacturing (21)
  • Health Care (20)
  • Software (19)
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Investments by region
  • China (206)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (7)
  • Singapore (1)
  • India (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
41M
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.79
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Chasing Innovation 02 Apr 2021 Manufacturing, Drones, Consumer Electronics, Electronics Early Stage Venture 15M Guangdong Province, Futian District, China
Taobao 12 Apr 2021 Early Stage Venture Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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