Sina

Total investments

21

Average round size

60M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.81

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceLast Mile TransportationTransportationSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAutonomous VehiclesVideoAdvertisingMusic Streaming

Summary

Sina appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Beijing. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Sina is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Sina performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Ben Tsiang, Hurst Lin, Yan Wang, Zhidong Wang.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Sina, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Zhiping Capital, Sequoia Capital China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zhiping Capital, SAIF Partners, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weibo, Zhiping Capital, Sequoia Capital China.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PINTEC, Miaopai, Bona Film Group. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Marketing, Financial Services. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
7
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.81
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Transportation (4)
  • Last Mile Transportation (4)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (4)
  • Machine Learning (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (15)
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
491M
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
1
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

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CleverFi 01 Nov 2021 Enterprise Software, Consumer Software Seed United States, Texas, Austin
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