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Renren Inc.

Founders Joe Chen

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 1.86
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 8
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Mobile
  • Finance
  • Automotive
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BacklotCars

Automotive
Marketplace
Wholesale
$4M01 May 2017 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Simtoo

Aerospace
Drone Management
Drones
Robotics
$11M26 Oct 2016 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

51Autogo

Automotive
CRM
Mobile Apps
Oil and Gas
$15M18 Aug 2016 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Sirin Labs

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$72M24 Apr 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Omni Prime

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$46M12 Apr 2016 Shanghai, China

Onerent

Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Rental Property
$4M24 Mar 2016 San Jose, California, United States

FiscalNote

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Government
GovTech
Predictive Analytics
$10M02 Feb 2016 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Longma Youxi

Gaming
Mobile
Video Games
$463K30 Nov 2015 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 39
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 1.86
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BacklotCars

Automotive
Marketplace
Wholesale
$4M01 May 2017 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Simtoo

Aerospace
Drone Management
Drones
Robotics
$11M26 Oct 2016 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

51Autogo

Automotive
CRM
Mobile Apps
Oil and Gas
$15M18 Aug 2016 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Sirin Labs

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Mobile
Mobile Devices
$72M24 Apr 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Omni Prime

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$46M12 Apr 2016 Shanghai, China

Onerent

Property Management
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
Rental Property
$4M24 Mar 2016 San Jose, California, United States

FiscalNote

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Government
GovTech
Predictive Analytics
$10M02 Feb 2016 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Longma Youxi

Gaming
Mobile
Video Games
$463K30 Nov 2015 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Shiftgig

Apps
Hospitality
Mobile
Recruiting
Software
$22M24 Nov 2015 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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