TransLink Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

159

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

9.35

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

23

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingOpen Source

Summary

Translink Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TangoMe, Soundhound, Rescale. 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising, Software. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The current fund was established by Jackie Yang, Jay Eum, Sung Park, Toshi Otani. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Translink Capital, startups are often financed by Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures, XG Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sierra Ventures, Storm Ventures, XG Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, Alibaba Group.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Translink Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Translink Capital performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataAgricultureMobilityBlockchain/Crypto/Web3 Show 9 more
Stage focus
Series A
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 7M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
159
Lead investments
26
Exits
23
Rounds per year
9.35
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (37)
  • Mobile (27)
  • Information Technology (23)
  • Health Care (22)
  • Artificial Intelligence (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (115)
  • South Korea (9)
  • China (18)
  • Germany (2)
  • Switzerland (4)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
154M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.90
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Opsys Tech 05 Jan 2023 Information Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware Late Stage Venture 51M Tel Aviv, Holon, Israel
Thintronics 29 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 23M United States, California, San Francisco

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