Apple Funds

Total investments

7

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.47

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.43

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetMobileCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityMarketingAdvertisingFilmWeb AppsTechnical Support

Summary

Apple Funds is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beijing. The company was established in Asia in China.

The current fund was established by Hongtao Hu.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Apple Funds, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Qiming Venture Partners, Lightspeed China Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, Qiming Venture Partners, Junsan Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Matrix Partners China, Lightspeed China Partners, Gaocheng Capital.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zhizhangyi, Chaitin Tech. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, Network Security. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Apple Funds works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.47
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Network Security (5)
  • Internet (3)
  • Technical Support (3)
  • Mobile (3)
  • Cyber Security (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (6)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Chaitin Tech 28 Jun 2017 Cyber Security, Network Security, Security, Web Apps Early Stage Venture 4M Beijing, Haidian District, China

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