Vertex Ventures China

Total investments

154

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

120

Rounds per year

9.62

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsManufacturingSemiconductor

Summary

Vertex Ventures China is the famous VC, which was founded in 2008. The company was established in Asia in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Beijing.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Vertex Ventures China, startups are often financed by CDH Investments, Bertelsmann Asia Investments, SAIF Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vertex Ventures, Sinovation Ventures, Matrix Partners China. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital China, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners China.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Vertex Ventures China the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Vertex Ventures China works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Manufacturing. 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. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Horizon Robotics, Mobike, 91 Boyuan Wireless. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
154
Lead investments
23
Exits
9
Rounds per year
9.62
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (19)
  • Internet (17)
  • E-Commerce (14)
  • Software (14)
  • Biotechnology (12)
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Investments by region
  • China (130)
  • United States (15)
  • Singapore (2)
  • Romania (1)
  • Malta (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
127M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.35

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ArrayComm 16 Nov 2020 Software, Wireless, Communications Infrastructure Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, San Jose
Evolusia 14 Apr 2023 Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 15M Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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