UpHonest Capital

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Santa Clara, United States

Total investments

178

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

157

Rounds per year

22.25

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningHealth CareMobile Apps

Summary

UpHonest Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lime, Hims, Rescale. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Software. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the UpHonest Capital, startups are often financed by Wei Guo, SV Angel, General Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Wei Guo, Soma Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel, Khosla Ventures, DHVC.

The fund was created by Chloe Zhang, Mengke Li, Wei Guo. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. When the investment is from UpHonest Capital the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. This UpHonest Capital works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
178
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
22.25
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (42)
  • Artificial Intelligence (25)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • Health Care (22)
  • Internet (18)
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Investments by region
  • United States (136)
  • Vietnam (1)
  • China (9)
  • Singapore (3)
  • Malaysia (2)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
206M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.53
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Suger 16 Nov 2023 Software, B2B, SaaS Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
Volta 03 May 2024 Seed 4M
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