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Translink Capital

Founders Jackie Yang Jay Eum Sung Park Toshi Otani

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Total investments 156
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 91
Rounds per year 9.18
Lead investments 25
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 23
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aktiia

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
$29M27 Feb 2024 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Augean Robotics

AgTech
Robotics
$24M09 Jan 2024 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Plus One Robotics

Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
$59M07 Mar 2023 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Lionsbot

Assistive Technology
CleanTech
Manufacturing
Marketing
Robotics
$17M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Opsys Tech

Hardware
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$51M05 Jan 2023 Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel

Makersite GmbH

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Compliance
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Procurement
Product Management
Software
Supply Chain Management
$21M18 Oct 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Eclypsium

Cyber Security
Enterprise
Information Technology
$25M04 Oct 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Everestlabs.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$16M28 Sep 2022 Fremont, California, United States

Naborforce

Health Care
Information Services
Software
Wellness
$9M15 Aug 2022 Richmond, Virginia, United States
News
Sonatus Raises $35M in Series A Financing

– Sonatus, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based automotive software company, raised $35m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Translink Capital with participation from Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia Corporation, SAIC Capital, LG Electronics, Marvell, UMC Capital, and Wanxiang Group Company.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate global growth and further expand its roadmap of next-generation software-defined vehicle solutions.

Plus One Robotics Snags $33M Series B

– Plus One Robotics from San Francisco has completed a $33m Series B funding.
McRock Capital and TransLink Ventures co-led the round, with participation from BMWi Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners, and Ironspring Ventures alongside existing investors.
– Whitney Rockley of McRock Capital and Toshi Otani of TransLink will join the company’s Board of Directors.

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Total investments 156
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 9.18
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 25
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aktiia

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
Personal Health
Wearables
$29M27 Feb 2024 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Augean Robotics

AgTech
Robotics
$24M09 Jan 2024 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Plus One Robotics

Industrial Automation
Robotics
Software
$59M07 Mar 2023 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Lionsbot

Assistive Technology
CleanTech
Manufacturing
Marketing
Robotics
$17M09 Jan 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Opsys Tech

Hardware
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$51M05 Jan 2023 Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel

Makersite GmbH

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Compliance
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Procurement
Product Management
Software
Supply Chain Management
$21M18 Oct 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Eclypsium

Cyber Security
Enterprise
Information Technology
$25M04 Oct 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Everestlabs.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
Sensor
Software
$16M28 Sep 2022 Fremont, California, United States

Naborforce

Health Care
Information Services
Software
Wellness
$9M15 Aug 2022 Richmond, Virginia, United States
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