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WestSummit Capital

Founders Datong Chen Raymond Yang

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 2.53
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 9
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Cloud Computing
  • Open Source
  • Big Data
Summary

In 2009 was created WestSummit Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

Comparing to the other companies, this WestSummit Capital performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from WestSummit Capital is more than 1 billion dollars.

The fund was created by Datong Chen, Raymond Yang. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the WestSummit Capital, startups are often financed by Sierra Ventures, Tran Ventures, Thomvest Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Sierra Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, Intel Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Robotics, Cloud Computing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Unity Technologies, Ninebot, 3D Robotics.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RisenLighten

10 Apr 2024 Haidian, Beijing, China

QttAudio

Audio
Cloud Data Services
Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Video
05 Nov 2021 Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Recurrent.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
Sales
Software
$10M27 Sep 2019 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$15M29 Apr 2019 China, Beijing

Kuaikuaisheng

E-Commerce
$1M27 Sep 2018 Shanghai, China

Hefei Ruike Microelectronics Co.

Hardware
10 May 2018 Shushan District, Anhui, China

Unity Technologies

Augmented Reality
Developer Platform
Mobile Apps
Virtual Reality
$181M13 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M24 Aug 2015 California, United States

3D Robotics

Drones
Information Technology
Robotics
$14M23 Apr 2015 Berkeley, California, United States

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Total investments 38
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 2.53
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

RisenLighten

10 Apr 2024 Haidian, Beijing, China

QttAudio

Audio
Cloud Data Services
Communications Infrastructure
Electronics
Video
05 Nov 2021 Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Recurrent.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
Sales
Software
$10M27 Sep 2019 Haidian District, Beijing, China

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$15M29 Apr 2019 China, Beijing

Kuaikuaisheng

E-Commerce
$1M27 Sep 2018 Shanghai, China

Hefei Ruike Microelectronics Co.

Hardware
10 May 2018 Shushan District, Anhui, China

Unity Technologies

Augmented Reality
Developer Platform
Mobile Apps
Virtual Reality
$181M13 Jul 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M24 Aug 2015 California, United States

3D Robotics

Drones
Information Technology
Robotics
$14M23 Apr 2015 Berkeley, California, United States
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