Prometheus Capital

Total investments

33

Average round size

54M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

2.75

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

3

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailGamingHealth CareHardwareVideoMedia and EntertainmentPet

Summary

In 2012 was created Prometheus Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beijing. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

The fund was created by Jianlin Wang, Sicong Wang. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

This Prometheus Capital works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Prometheus Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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 Le Sports, FlashEX, Shansong Express (FlashEx). Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Sales Automation, Enterprise.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Prometheus Capital, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, ZWC Partners, GSR Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDG Capital, WANDA Group, Qiming Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shunwei Capital, Nanshan Capital, Majuven.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
6
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.75
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (5)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Internet (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (31)
  • United States (1)
  • Taiwan (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
240M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.32
Strategy success index
0.50

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