WI Harper

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

192

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

137

Rounds per year

6.19

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

25

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturing

Summary

In 1993 was created WI Harper Group, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Peter Liu. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the WI Harper Group, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, Maven Ventures, Harbinger Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IDG Capital, SAIF Partners, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IDG Capital, Intel Capital, Sycamore Ventures.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This WI Harper Group works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from WI Harper Group is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Panshi, Focus Media, Chemclin. The fund has no exact preference 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Medical Device. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareBiotech/Life SciencesAI/Big DataRoboticsFintech Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeries CSeries DSeries E
Geo focus
AustraliaBahrainCambodia Show 22 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
192
Lead investments
18
Exits
25
Rounds per year
6.19
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (51)
  • Health Care (29)
  • Biotechnology (23)
  • Mobile (23)
  • Internet (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (98)
  • China (51)
  • Singapore (6)
  • Taiwan (28)
  • France (2)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
36M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.62
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
China Diagnostic Medical Corporation (CDMC) 20 Oct 2008 Pharmaceutical, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 16M Beijing, Beijing, China
Triptrotting 22 May 2012 Education, Travel, Hospitality, Web Hosting Early Stage Venture 500K United States, California, San Francisco
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