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Alibaba Group

Founders Cathy Zhang Changwei Ma Eddie Wu Jack Ma James Sheng Jane Jiang Jianhang Jin Joseph Tsai Lucy Peng Min Han Simon Xie Tony Yiu Toto Sun Trudy Dai Wensheng Lou Yuanying Jin Yuehong Zhou Yufeng Shi

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Total investments 305
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$371M
Portfolio companies 230
Rounds per year 12.20
Lead investments 115
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 53
Key employees 22

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Retail
  • Shopping
Summary

In 1999 was created Alibaba Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Hangzhou.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Alibaba Group, startups are often financed by Tencent Holdings, Sequoia Capital China, Morningside Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital), Ant Financial, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Investment Advisers, SAIF Partners, M13.

The fund was created by Cathy Zhang, Changwei Ma, Eddie Wu, Jack Ma, James Sheng, Jane Jiang, Jianhang Jin, Joseph Tsai, Lucy Peng, Min Han, Simon Xie, Tony Yiu, Toto Sun, Trudy Dai, Wensheng Lou, Yuanying Jin, Yuehong Zhou, Yufeng Shi. We also calculated 22 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Service Industry. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Didi Chuxing, CMC Capital Group, Alibaba Cloud.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Alibaba Group is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Alibaba Group works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Robot era

Electronics
Manufacturing
Robotics
16 Oct 2024 Haidian, Beijing, China

Connectly.ai

Information Technology
Internet
Messaging
$20M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Intelligent Learning

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Robotics
$30M29 May 2024 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

MiniMax

$600M05 Mar 2024 Minhang, Shanghai, China

Dark Side of the Moon

Artificial Intelligence
$1B19 Feb 2024 Beijing, Beijing, China

Baichuan Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Software
$300M17 Oct 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Hengyu Medical

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$15M18 Jul 2023 Guangdong, Tianjin, China

Mirauge3D

3D Technology
Cloud Data Services
Software
30 Mar 2023 Changping, Beijing, China

Jiecheng New Energy

Energy
Recycling
Renewable Energy
15 Mar 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
News
DeepRoute.ai Raises $300M in Total Funding

– DeepRoute.ai is a self-driving technology company committed to advancing urban logistics and robotaxis.
– The company raised a Series B funding round totaling to more than $300m USD.
– The round was led by Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) and other venture capital companies including Jeneration Capital. Previous investors Fosun RZ Capital, Yunqi Partners, and Glory Ventures also participated in the round.
– The new investment will be used to further research and development, scale automaker collaboration and fleet operation, and support the expansion of the team.

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Total investments 305
Average round size 371M
Rounds per year 12.20
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 115
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 53
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Robot era

Electronics
Manufacturing
Robotics
16 Oct 2024 Haidian, Beijing, China

Connectly.ai

Information Technology
Internet
Messaging
$20M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Intelligent Learning

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Robotics
$30M29 May 2024 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

MiniMax

$600M05 Mar 2024 Minhang, Shanghai, China

Dark Side of the Moon

Artificial Intelligence
$1B19 Feb 2024 Beijing, Beijing, China

Baichuan Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Software
$300M17 Oct 2023 Haidian, Beijing, China

Hengyu Medical

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
$15M18 Jul 2023 Guangdong, Tianjin, China

Mirauge3D

3D Technology
Cloud Data Services
Software
30 Mar 2023 Changping, Beijing, China

Jiecheng New Energy

Energy
Recycling
Renewable Energy
15 Mar 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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