Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Walden International

Founders Lip-Bu Tan Roni Hefetz

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 282
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 185
Rounds per year 7.62
Lead investments 23
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 58
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Semiconductor
  • Electronics
  • Information Technology
Summary

Walden International appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1987. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Telecommunications, Internet. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WebEx, GoPro, CloudMinds

Comparing to the other companies, this Walden International performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Walden International is 50-100 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Walden International, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Granite Ventures.

The fund was created by Lip Tan, Roni Hefetz. We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

Read more

Funds with similar focus

Funds from United States
Funds with similar focus located in United States:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Juexin Technology

Communications Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
10 Nov 2023 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Astronergy

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$309M25 Jul 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Qingchun Semiconductor

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
26 Apr 2023 Baoshan, Shanghai, China

CMind-SEMI

Semiconductor
27 Mar 2023 China, China

Lattice Microelectronics

Electronics
16 Dec 2022 Yuhang, Zhejiang, China

enovate3D

3D Printing
Electronics
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Printing
18 Nov 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

PhotonIC Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Semiconductor
09 Oct 2022 Shanghai, China

Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$386M31 Aug 2022 Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

HjMicro

Cloud Computing
Semiconductor
$123M31 May 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
News
Exotanium Scoops Up $5M Seed Financing

– Exotanium, a cloud resource optimization and management company, announced today that it has completed a $5m seed funding round led by Walden International and Nepenthe Capital LLC.
– This latest round of funding builds on an exceptional year for Exotanium, which has seen an increase in demand for cloud-optimization solutions as organizations continue to shift their operations online and search for high-quality, budget-friendly cloud management solutions.
– In the past year, Exotanium has raised $5m in funding and completed a successful pilot with the software company, Autodesk, Inc.

SambaNova Systems Raises $676M in Series D, Valued at Over $5 Billion

– SambaNova Systems from Palo Alto develops a software, hardware and services to run AI applications.
– The company raised $676m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from new investors Temasek and GIC, plus existing backers including funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Walden International and WRVI.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand its business reach and development efforts.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Walden International?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 282
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 7.62
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 23
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 58
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Juexin Technology

Communications Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
10 Nov 2023 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Astronergy

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$309M25 Jul 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Qingchun Semiconductor

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
26 Apr 2023 Baoshan, Shanghai, China

CMind-SEMI

Semiconductor
27 Mar 2023 China, China

Lattice Microelectronics

Electronics
16 Dec 2022 Yuhang, Zhejiang, China

enovate3D

3D Printing
Electronics
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Printing
18 Nov 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

PhotonIC Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Semiconductor
09 Oct 2022 Shanghai, China

Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$386M31 Aug 2022 Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

HjMicro

Cloud Computing
Semiconductor
$123M31 May 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: