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Prometheus Capital

Founders Jianlin Wang Sicong Wang

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$54M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 3.30
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 3
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Simulation
Software
Software Engineering
$55M23 Nov 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Freemud

Enterprise
$9M11 Nov 2019 Shanghai, China

Golden Technology

Big Data
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
$154M21 Oct 2019 China, Hainan Province, China

E-Commerce
Hardware
06 May 2019 China, Beijing

Tea
$30M03 Apr 2019 Shanghai, China

Health Care
Pet
23 Oct 2018 China, Dongcheng District

Waming Jiankang

Health Care
Internet
Medical
$3M17 Aug 2018 Guangdong Province

YoKID

Children
Education
Parenting
$23M28 Jun 2018 Beijing

POIZON

E-Commerce
Fashion
Information Technology
Retail
$1B29 Apr 2018 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

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Total investments 33
Average round size 54M
Rounds per year 3.30
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rescale

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Simulation
Software
Software Engineering
$55M23 Nov 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Freemud

Enterprise
$9M11 Nov 2019 Shanghai, China

Golden Technology

Big Data
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
$154M21 Oct 2019 China, Hainan Province, China

E-Commerce
Hardware
06 May 2019 China, Beijing

Tea
$30M03 Apr 2019 Shanghai, China

Health Care
Pet
23 Oct 2018 China, Dongcheng District

Waming Jiankang

Health Care
Internet
Medical
$3M17 Aug 2018 Guangdong Province

YoKID

Children
Education
Parenting
$23M28 Jun 2018 Beijing

POIZON

E-Commerce
Fashion
Information Technology
Retail
$1B29 Apr 2018 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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