ZhenFund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Beijing, China

Total investments

841

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

549

Rounds per year

64.69

Lead investments

126

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

50

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareEducationRobotics

Summary

In 2011 was created ZhenFund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beijing.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the ZhenFund, startups are often financed by GGV Capital, Matrix Partners China, GSR Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Shunwei Capital, Bertelsmann Asia Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Blue Lake Capital AG, Vision Plus Capital, DCM Ventures.

The fund was created by Bob Xiaoping Xu, Victor Wang. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from ZhenFund the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this ZhenFund works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vipkid, UCommune, Xiaohongshu. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. The fund has no specific favorite 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.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataSemiconductorsRoboticsHardware Show 6 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AustraliaCambodiaCanadaChinaIndia Show 12 more
Check size
100K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
841
Lead investments
126
Exits
50
Rounds per year
64.69
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (118)
  • Software (112)
  • E-Commerce (101)
  • Internet (86)
  • Information Technology (80)
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Investments by region
  • China (647)
  • United States (138)
  • Singapore (18)
  • Austria (1)
  • Japan (3)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
19
Number of Decacorns
23
Number of Minotaurs
13

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
210M
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.67
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hydro Protocol 09 Jan 2018 Early Stage Venture United States, Washington, Seattle
Meican 01 Feb 2012 E-Commerce, Mobile, Hospitality Seed Beijing, Dongcheng District, China

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