SAIF Partners

Total investments

439

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

305

Rounds per year

19.09

Lead investments

45

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

51

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareManufacturingMedical

Summary

In 2001 was created SAIF Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hong Kong. The company was established in Asia in Hong Kong.

The current fund was established by Andrew Yan. We also calculated 17 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the SAIF Partners, startups are often financed by Northern Light Venture Capital, Venture Highway, Sequoia Capital India. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WI Harper Group, Venture Highway, Kalaari Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Qiming Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Mobile. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Paytm Mall, One97 Communications, VANCL. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This SAIF Partners works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from SAIF Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
439
Lead investments
45
Exits
51
Rounds per year
19.09
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Internet (93)
  • E-Commerce (83)
  • Software (62)
  • Information Technology (41)
  • Health Care (35)
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Investments by region
  • China (243)
  • India (163)
  • United States (27)
  • South Korea (1)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
18
Number of Decacorns
19
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
219M
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.68
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ACCB Biotech 08 Aug 2014 Biotechnology, Health Care, Genetics, Life Science Early Stage Venture 773K Beijing, Dongcheng District, China
Seer 15 Feb 2022 Biotechnology, Mobile, Health Care, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Medical, Life Science Early Stage Venture 15M United States, New York, New York
SLYMETRIX 01 May 2020 E-Commerce, Software, Analytics, SaaS, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing Seed 944K Lazio, Rome, Italy

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