Shanda Group
Private equity
Active
Menlo Park, United States
33
18M
24
1.32
5
0.27
1
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1999 was created Shanda Group, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
The current fund was established by Tianqiao Chen.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Augmented Reality, Education. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Yunniao Delivery, ElMindA, Lumus. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Shanda Group, startups are often financed by Granatus Ventures, True., Streamlined Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ironfire Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Sierra Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Matrix Partners China, GSR Ventures, Warburg Pincus.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 33
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.32
- Follow on index
- 0.27
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (11)
- Software (8)
- Health Care (6)
- Medical Device (5)
- Medical (4) Show 59 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (24)
- Israel (2)
- China (3)
- Singapore (1)
- Indonesia (1) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.88
- Avg. company exit year
- 3
- Avg. multiplicator
- 8.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crate.io | 01 Oct 2020 | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Database, Open Source | Early Stage Venture | 14M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Rubedo Life Sciences | 22 Apr 2024 | Biotechnology, Health Care | Early Stage Venture | 40M | United States, California, Sunnyvale |
| UploadVR | 16 Dec 2015 | Education, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Media and Entertainment | Seed | 1M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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