Whales Capital
23
8M
22
1.53
7
0.04
1
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Whales Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Shanghai. The venture was found in Asia in China.
This Whales Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ximalaya FM, MINGDAO.COM, Zhont Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Fitness, Leasing.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Whales Capital, startups are often financed by Zendai Group, Xiaomi, Shenzhen Qianhai Xingwang Investment Co.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zero2IPO Ventures, Volcanics Venture, Toutoushidao Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kuka Home, JBC, China Merger & Acquisition Fund.
The current fund was established by Wei Huang, Zhongyan Huo. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 7
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.53
- Follow on index
- 0.04
- Investments by industry
- Education (5)
- Internet (4)
- E-Learning (4)
- Content (4)
- Art (3) Show 43 more
- Investments by region
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- China (22)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 9M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.65
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