StarVC

Total investments

37

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

4.11

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

1

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareManufacturingCloud ComputingVirtual Reality

Summary

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from StarVC is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the StarVC, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gaorong Capital, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sailing Capital, IDG Capital, Ding Xiang Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weibo, Sailing Capital, Green Pine Capital Partners.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Transportation. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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 SenseTime, Miaopai, JMGO.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
9
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.11
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Software (7)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Financial Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (36)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
270M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Haifan Technology 06 Jun 2024 Seed 231K Fujian, Ningde, China
NextVPU 01 Jul 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor Seed Shanghai, China
Qlife Lab 15 Jun 2017 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Seed 463K Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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