Welight Capital

Total investments

73

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

8.11

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

3

Areas of investment
E-CommerceBeautySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechConsumerArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageEducationManufacturing

Summary

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Klook, ABC Fintech, Meishubao. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Trading Platform, Finance. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Welight Capital, startups are often financed by China Growth Capital, ZhenFund, Tencent Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, Tencent Holdings, Matrix Partners China. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital China, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
7
Exits
3
Rounds per year
8.11
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (21)
  • Education (7)
  • Food and Beverage (7)
  • Consumer (5)
  • Financial Services (5)
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Investments by region
  • China (63)
  • United States (4)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
257M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
21.70
Strategy success index
0.40

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