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ByteDance

Founders Yiming Zhang

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Total investments 66
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 5.50
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Social Media
  • Media and Entertainment
Summary

In 2012 was created ByteDance, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Haidian. The company was established in Asia in China.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from ByteDance the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Live.me, The Minerva Project, Hupu. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Apps, Media and Entertainment.

The fund was created by Yiming Zhang.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the ByteDance, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Source Code Capital, Sequoia Capital India. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yongjin Group, Xing Wang, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yongjin Group, Xiaomi, Temasek Holdings.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

InnoStar Semiconductor

Electronics
Semiconductor
12 Mar 2024 Shanghai, China

Zhenqin Service

Housekeeping Service
08 Dec 2023 Quzhou, Zhejiang, China

Hi after school

Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
17 Feb 2023 Yangpu, Hainan, China

STARTDT

$15M01 Dec 2022 -

Zhengyan Software

Advanced Materials
Artificial Intelligence
Software
17 Nov 2022 Changyang, Beijing, China

SleekFlow

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Facebook
Marketing Automation
Messaging
SaaS
Sales Automation
Social Shopping
Software
$8M22 Jun 2022 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

KidariStudio

Content
E-Learning
Publishing
$20M21 Jan 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Shexu Technology

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Design
Software
11 Jan 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Oriental Honghu

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Tea
$15M06 Jan 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China

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Total investments 66
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 5.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

InnoStar Semiconductor

Electronics
Semiconductor
12 Mar 2024 Shanghai, China

Zhenqin Service

Housekeeping Service
08 Dec 2023 Quzhou, Zhejiang, China

Hi after school

Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
17 Feb 2023 Yangpu, Hainan, China

STARTDT

$15M01 Dec 2022 -

Zhengyan Software

Advanced Materials
Artificial Intelligence
Software
17 Nov 2022 Changyang, Beijing, China

SleekFlow

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Facebook
Marketing Automation
Messaging
SaaS
Sales Automation
Social Shopping
Software
$8M22 Jun 2022 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

KidariStudio

Content
E-Learning
Publishing
$20M21 Jan 2022 South Korea, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Shexu Technology

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Design
Software
11 Jan 2022 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Oriental Honghu

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Tea
$15M06 Jan 2022 Beijing, Beijing, China
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