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Whales Capital

Founders Wei Huang Zhongyan Huo

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Internet
  • E-Learning
  • Art
  • Content
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fourier

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Audio
Semiconductor
31 Aug 2022 Xuhui, Shanghai, China

Ma Xiangyuan

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Snack Food
$1M18 Mar 2022 Wuhan, Hubei, China

Education
Language Learning
Online Portals
$120M17 Aug 2020 China, Beijing

GJS Robot

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$14M19 Sep 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Computer
Gaming
Internet
Software
Video Games
$3M09 Jul 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province

CCtalk

E-Learning
Education
Vocational Education
$1M01 Jan 2018 Shanghai, China

Misspao

Fitness
Mobile Apps
Solar
$11M11 Oct 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

On the Road Store

Apps
E-Commerce
Media and Entertainment
$3M24 Jul 2017 Haidian District, Beijing, China

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
19 Apr 2017 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

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Total investments 21
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fourier

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Audio
Semiconductor
31 Aug 2022 Xuhui, Shanghai, China

Ma Xiangyuan

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Snack Food
$1M18 Mar 2022 Wuhan, Hubei, China

Education
Language Learning
Online Portals
$120M17 Aug 2020 China, Beijing

GJS Robot

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$14M19 Sep 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Computer
Gaming
Internet
Software
Video Games
$3M09 Jul 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province

CCtalk

E-Learning
Education
Vocational Education
$1M01 Jan 2018 Shanghai, China

Misspao

Fitness
Mobile Apps
Solar
$11M11 Oct 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

On the Road Store

Apps
E-Commerce
Media and Entertainment
$3M24 Jul 2017 Haidian District, Beijing, China

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
19 Apr 2017 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China
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