ZenStone Venture Capital

Total investments

41

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

4.56

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechMobileFinanceSaaSAppsMarketplace

Summary

In 2014 was created ZenStone Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Clara.

This organization was formed by Fay Yang, Mingfeng Wu. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

This ZenStone Venture Capital works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from ZenStone Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the ZenStone Venture Capital, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Daniel Curran, Structure Capital, Crosslink Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crosslink Capital, Zeev Ventures, Pantera Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Finance. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Branch, Crew, Enevo. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
0
Exits
10
Rounds per year
4.56
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Real Estate (9)
  • FinTech (8)
  • Financial Services (6)
  • Mobile (5)
  • Marketplace (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (35)
  • Canada (2)
  • Finland (1)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Latvia (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
526M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.33
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Branch 27 Jan 2016 Software, Mobile, Mobile Apps, App Marketing Early Stage Venture 35M United States, California, Redwood City
LeadGenius 08 Oct 2014 Enterprise Software, Big Data, Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, Sales Automation, Lead Generation Early Stage Venture 6M United States, California, Berkeley

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