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Source Code Capital

Founders Cao Yi Charlie Cao

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Total investments 304
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$67M
Portfolio companies 195
Rounds per year 30.40
Lead investments 58
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.35
Exits 10
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet
Summary

In 2014 was created Source Code Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in China. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Changyang.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Source Code Capital, startups are often financed by Shunwei Capital, Matrix Partners China, ZhenFund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shunwei Capital, Chengwei Capital, Yunqi Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Chengwei Capital, Sequoia Capital China, Yunqi Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Toutiao, Meituan-Dianping, Qudian For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Internet. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Source Code Capital works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Source Code Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The current fund was established by Cao Yi, Charlie (Yi) Cao. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pinch Ta

$1M08 Apr 2024 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Erui Micro Semiconductor

06 Mar 2024 Wuxi, Anhui, China

Unitree Robotics

$154M06 Feb 2024 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

Erui Micro Semiconductor

05 Jan 2024 Wuxi, Anhui, China

Powerlaw Ai

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Software
$12M07 Dec 2023 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Tustin

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
23 Nov 2023 Fuhou, China

Yixintong

Information Technology
Infrastructure
09 Oct 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Unisun Energy Group

Energy
Solar
26 Jul 2023 Shanghai, China

Minghao Technology

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
09 Jul 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China
News
African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding

– Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400m funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and joined by existing investors Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital and SoftBank Ventures Asia.
– Other investors, including DragonBall Capital and 3W Capital, also took part in the new financing round.

Bota Bio Raises $100 Million Series B Financing to Advance Sustainable Biomanufacturing

– Bota Bio has raised more than $100m in an oversubscribed Series B funding round.
– The financing was led by Sequoia Capital China.
– Other investors included previous backers Matrix Partners China, Source Code Capital, Sherpa Healthcare Partners, and 5Y Capital, among others.
– The new funds will be used to expand the company’s global operations and build out Bota Bio’s lab-to-pilot scale platform to facilitate the rapid scale-up and deployment of the company’s product pipeline in consumer goods, food, nutrition, and pharmaceutical products.

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Total investments 304
Average round size 67M
Rounds per year 30.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 58
Follow on index 0.35
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pinch Ta

$1M08 Apr 2024 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Erui Micro Semiconductor

06 Mar 2024 Wuxi, Anhui, China

Unitree Robotics

$154M06 Feb 2024 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

Erui Micro Semiconductor

05 Jan 2024 Wuxi, Anhui, China

Powerlaw Ai

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Software
$12M07 Dec 2023 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Tustin

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
23 Nov 2023 Fuhou, China

Yixintong

Information Technology
Infrastructure
09 Oct 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Unisun Energy Group

Energy
Solar
26 Jul 2023 Shanghai, China

Minghao Technology

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
09 Jul 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China
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