Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund

Total investments

70

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

7.78

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.24

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceSaaSTravel

Summary

The venture was found in Asia in Hong Kong. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Causeway Bay.

The current fund was established by Andrew Lee. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, MindWorks Ventures, Coent Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CDIB Capital, MindWorks Ventures, WI Harper Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by CDIB Capital, Monku2019s Hill Ventures, Line Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Logistics, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GoGoVan, WeLab, AutoX. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Hong Kong.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund is 1-5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
18
Rounds per year
7.78
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Software (15)
  • Financial Services (13)
  • Finance (10)
  • FinTech (10)
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Investments by region
  • China (43)
  • United States (8)
  • Taiwan (13)
  • Canada (1)
  • Australia (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
139M
Group Appearance index
0.87

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Great Bay Bio 13 Sep 2022 Biotechnology, Life Science, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 15M Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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