S.F. Express

Total investments

25

Average round size

120M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.81

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

2

Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsE-CommerceFreight ServiceInternetSupply Chain ManagementFinancial ServicesFood and BeverageSaaSShipping

Summary

S.F. Express appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1993. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Guangdong.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the S.F. Express, startups are often financed by Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, First Round Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QC Capital, Oriza Holdings, K2VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shenzhen Gemboom Investment Management, K2VC, QC Capital.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from S.F. Express is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Logistics, Food and Beverage. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flexport, Hive Box, Yixin Capital. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
7
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.81
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Logistics (13)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Automotive (5)
  • Financial Services (5)
  • Food and Beverage (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (21)
  • United States (3)
  • Myanmar (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
539M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Strategy success index
0.80

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