UOB Venture

Total investments

98

Average round size

46M

Portfolio companies

74

Rounds per year

2.97

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsHealth CareManufacturingCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

In 1991 was created UOB Venture, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in Singapore. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Singapore.

The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this UOB Venture works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from UOB Venture the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Besides them, we counted 9 critical employees of this fund in our database.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lu.com, HunterOn, Appier

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the UOB Venture, startups are often financed by Enspire Capital, Venrock, Safeguard Scientifics. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enspire Capital, Safeguard Scientifics, Bahrain Middle East Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enspire Capital, WI Harper Group, Safeguard Scientifics.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
98
Lead investments
3
Exits
10
Rounds per year
2.97
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (17)
  • Financial Services (17)
  • E-Commerce (13)
  • Cryptocurrency (12)
  • Blockchain (12)
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Investments by region
  • China (13)
  • Indonesia (16)
  • United States (22)
  • Singapore (17)
  • Israel (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
583M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.36
Strategy success index
0.50

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