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SAIC Venture Capital

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 2.08
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 15
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Logistics
Summary

SAIC Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. SAIC Venture Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Las Vegas.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Solect Technology Group, Banma Network Technologies, Plus.ai. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the SAIC Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Alpine Electronics, H.I.G. Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, TSVC, Sony Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Motors Ventures, Motus Ventures, Cordova Ventures.

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. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from SAIC Venture Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Opposing the other organizations, this SAIC Venture Capital works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thinktech

Automotive
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
01 Nov 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Thinktech

Automotive
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M28 Feb 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Envisics

Augmented Reality
Automotive
Information Technology
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$50M07 Oct 2020 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Zuum transportation

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$8M18 Aug 2020 Irvine, California, United States

iSmartWays Technology

$2M07 Apr 2020 Edmonton, Canada

Miles

Lifestyle
Loyalty Programs
Predictive Analytics
Transportation
$3M03 Apr 2019 Redwood City, California, United States

Banma Network Technologies

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Internet
$233M13 Sep 2018 Shanghai, China

Plus

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Transportation
$101M11 Jun 2018 Cupertino, California, United States

Savari

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Communications Infrastructure
Hardware
Smart Cities
Software
$12M24 Apr 2018 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 50
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 2.08
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thinktech

Automotive
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
01 Nov 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Thinktech

Automotive
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$15M28 Feb 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Envisics

Augmented Reality
Automotive
Information Technology
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$50M07 Oct 2020 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Zuum transportation

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$8M18 Aug 2020 Irvine, California, United States

iSmartWays Technology

$2M07 Apr 2020 Edmonton, Canada

Miles

Lifestyle
Loyalty Programs
Predictive Analytics
Transportation
$3M03 Apr 2019 Redwood City, California, United States

Banma Network Technologies

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Internet
$233M13 Sep 2018 Shanghai, China

Plus

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Transportation
$101M11 Jun 2018 Cupertino, California, United States

Savari

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Communications Infrastructure
Hardware
Smart Cities
Software
$12M24 Apr 2018 San Jose, California, United States
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