Renren Inc.

Total investments

39

Average round size

47M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

1.86

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

8

Areas of investment
AutomotiveReal EstateInternetTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileFinanceWealth Management

Summary

Renren Inc. appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2002. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Chaoyang.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Renren Inc. works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The average startup value when the investment from Renren Inc. is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Social Finance (SoFi), GoGoVan, Sirin Labs. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wealth Management, Automotive.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Renren Inc., startups are often financed by Foundation Capital, Sequoia Capital China, RPM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wicklow Capital, RPM Ventures, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ZhenFund, Third Point Ventures, Royal Street Ventures.

The current fund was established by Joe Chen.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
19
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.86
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (17)
  • FinTech (14)
  • Mobile (7)
  • Finance (5)
  • Automotive (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (22)
  • China (16)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
290M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.56
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fundrise 28 May 2014 Real Estate, FinTech, Finance, Real Estate Investment Early Stage Venture 31M United States, District of Columbia, Washington
GoGoX 11 Jun 2015 Logistics, Transportation, Mobile, Apps, iOS Early Stage Venture 10M Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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