Bertelsmann Asia Investments

Total investments

158

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

105

Rounds per year

9.88

Lead investments

36

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

12

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMobile AppsEducation

Summary

In 2008 was created Bertelsmann Asia Investments, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in China. Bertelsmann Asia Investments appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Bertelsmann Asia Investments, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, GGV Capital, Tencent Holdings. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, IDG Capital, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, ZhenFund, YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital).

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Education. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chunyu Yisheng, Club Factory, YOHO. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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 - China. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

This organization was formed by Annabelle Yu Long. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Bertelsmann Asia Investments is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Bertelsmann Asia Investments works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
158
Lead investments
36
Exits
12
Rounds per year
9.88
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Internet (29)
  • E-Commerce (25)
  • Software (22)
  • Financial Services (20)
  • FinTech (15)
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Investments by region
  • China (131)
  • United States (9)
  • Mexico (5)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • Indonesia (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
172M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.48
Strategy success index
0.90

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