SAIC Capital

Total investments

45

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

38

Rounds per year

3.46

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorElectronics

Summary

SAIC Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shanghai.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the SAIC Capital, startups are often financed by SOSV, Vistara Capital Partners, Unicom Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VectoIQ LLC, Triangle Peak Partners, Toyota Motor Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toyota Motor Corporation, SoftBank Investment Advisers, SOSV.

The typical startup value when the investment from SAIC Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Computer Vision, Peer to Peer. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cihon, CalmCar Vision System, Guardknox.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.46
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (19)
  • Automotive (11)
  • Electronics (9)
  • Hardware (5)
  • Software (5)
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Investments by region
  • China (34)
  • United States (7)
  • Israel (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
213M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.46
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Luoan Technology 01 Jan 2021 Manufacturing, Cyber Security, Legal Early Stage Venture Beijing, Haidian, China
Yudao Bio 14 Mar 2022 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Biopharma, Alternative Medicine Early Stage Venture 40M Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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