AppWorks

Summary

AppWorks appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The venture was found in Asia in Taiwan. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Taipei.

This organization was formed by Jamie Lin.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the AppWorks, startups are often financed by MindWorks Ventures, CyberAgent Capital, 01vc. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MindWorks Ventures, 91Capital, Substance Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MindWorks Ventures, Substance Capital, Crystal Stream Capital.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Taiwan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Lalamove, ShopBack. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Advertising, Apps.

Comparing to the other companies, this AppWorks performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. When the investment is from AppWorks the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.