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Telescope Investment

Founders Jeff Du

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 25
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Fashion
  • Consumer
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

The company was established in Asia in China. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing.

This organization was formed by Jeff Du.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Furniture, Restaurants. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Chaoneng Xiaohei, Beacon Education, Flowerplus

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Telescope Investment, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Plum Ventures, Faxian Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tsing Ventures, Pros Partners, NewMargin Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morningside Venture Capital, Shunwei Capital, Shanghai Innovital Capital Investment Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Starwhale

Software
05 Jun 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
02 Jul 2019 Siming, Fujian

Beacon Education

EdTech
Education
$5M28 Jun 2019 Beijing, China

Sucheon

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
01 Apr 2019 Siming, China

Fanhaoyue

Catering
Local
Retail
$463K13 Jun 2018 China, Zhejiang

DARE ONE

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$4M15 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Chaomeng Data Company

Big Data
25 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Augusmith

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$3M04 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Home Decor
Manufacturing
Toys
$463K30 Aug 2017 China, Beijing

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Total investments 29
Average round size 1M
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.31

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Starwhale

Software
05 Jun 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
02 Jul 2019 Siming, Fujian

Beacon Education

EdTech
Education
$5M28 Jun 2019 Beijing, China

Sucheon

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
01 Apr 2019 Siming, China

Fanhaoyue

Catering
Local
Retail
$463K13 Jun 2018 China, Zhejiang

DARE ONE

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$4M15 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Chaomeng Data Company

Big Data
25 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Augusmith

E-Commerce
Jewelry
$3M04 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Home Decor
Manufacturing
Toys
$463K30 Aug 2017 China, Beijing
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