Sogou
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14M
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0.15
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2004 was created Sogou, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.
The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Sogou is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Artificial Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zhihu, Baikemy.com, Myaidoctor.
This organization was formed by Xiaochuan Wang.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Sogou, startups are often financed by Sinovation Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners, SAIF Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, Sinovation Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Capital Today, Sunshine Insurance Group.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 13
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.65
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Information Services (4)
- Q&A (3)
- Internet (3) Show 21 more
- Investments by region
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- China (12)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 288M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.46
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 24.83
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airdoc | 02 Apr 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | Early Stage Venture | Beijing, Dongcheng District, China |
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