Boyu Capital

Total investments

67

Average round size

357M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

4.79

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

12

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareHealth CareAppsMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTravelBiopharma

Summary

In 2010 was created Boyu Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Boyu Capital, startups are often financed by Tencent Holdings, Morningside Venture Capital, Matrix Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital China, 6 Dimensions Capital, YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, 6 Dimensions Capital, blisce/.

The typical startup value when the investment from Boyu Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Boyu Capital performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Diagnostics, Financial Services. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, iQiyi, LY.com. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

This organization was formed by Mary Ma. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
67
Lead investments
11
Exits
12
Rounds per year
4.79
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (17)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Pharmaceutical (10)
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • Biopharma (6)
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Investments by region
  • China (55)
  • Indonesia (2)
  • United States (6)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
19
Number of Minotaurs
17

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3B
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.34
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
bettermarks 19 Feb 2009 Internet, E-Learning, EdTech, Education Seed 3M Berlin, Germany
LY.com 18 Feb 2014 Travel, Tourism, Leisure Late Stage Venture 77M Jiangsu, Gusu District, China
Pulse 02 Aug 2021 Late Stage Venture 100M Shanghai, Xuhui, China

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