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ZhenFund

Founders Bob Xiaoping Xu Victor Wang

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Total investments 825
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 540
Rounds per year 63.46
Lead investments 123
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 50
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UXLINK

$9M13 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Endless Watts

Advanced Materials
Energy
$23M07 Dec 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Wuwen Xinqiong

Cloud Computing
Electronics
05 Dec 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

iPeakoin

Financial Services
$10M23 Nov 2023 Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

Altos Radar

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
$3M14 Aug 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Mogic AI

Advertising Platforms
Artificial Intelligence
Social Media Advertising
09 Aug 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

SpacemiT

Cloud Computing
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
04 Aug 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Levinthal

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Product Design
$1K27 Jul 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Dark Side of the Moon

Artificial Intelligence
13 Jun 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China
News
Delonix Bioworks Closes $14 Million Series Seed Financing to Accelerate the Development of its Innovative Synthetic Vaccines

– Delonix Bioworks has closed a $14m Series Seed financing to accelerate the development of its innovative synthetic vaccines.
– The financing was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and IDG Capital with participation from ZhenFund and an undisclosed investor.
– The financing will be used to accelerate the building of synthetic biology vaccine platforms and advance pipelines of synthetic vaccines to clinical trials.
– Delonix is working on innovative synthetic biology approaches to develop the next generation medical solutions to address global public health challenges.
– Current lead programs target anti-microbial resistance (AMR).

How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months

– Surreal, a China-based AI startup, raised $2-3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Sequoia China and ZhenFund.
– The company is merely three months old but has already secured a seed round of $2-3 million from two prominent investors, Sequoia China and ZhenFund.
– Surreal received nearly 10 investment offers in this round, as investors jostled to bet on a future shaped by AI-generated content.

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Total investments 825
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 63.46
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 123
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 50
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UXLINK

$9M13 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Endless Watts

Advanced Materials
Energy
$23M07 Dec 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Wuwen Xinqiong

Cloud Computing
Electronics
05 Dec 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China

iPeakoin

Financial Services
$10M23 Nov 2023 Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

Altos Radar

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
$3M14 Aug 2023 Los Altos, California, United States

Mogic AI

Advertising Platforms
Artificial Intelligence
Social Media Advertising
09 Aug 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

SpacemiT

Cloud Computing
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
04 Aug 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Levinthal

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Product Design
$1K27 Jul 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Dark Side of the Moon

Artificial Intelligence
13 Jun 2023 Beijing, Beijing, China
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