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Hotung Venture Capital

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 1.68
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 13
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Semiconductor
  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
Summary

In 1997 was created Hotung Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in Taiwan. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Taipei.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wireless, Telecommunications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Beijing LaKala Billing Services, VANCL, Canesta.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Hotung Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Storm Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Norwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Invesco, Redpoint, Qiming Venture Partners.

The important activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this Hotung Venture Capital performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

iKala

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Social Media Marketing
Social Shopping
Software
$17M19 Aug 2020 New Taipei

VoiceTube

Education
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
Language Learning
$3M03 Oct 2019 New Taipei

iKala

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Social Media Marketing
Social Shopping
Software
$10M16 Jan 2019 New Taipei

KUICKWHEEL

Internet
Internet of Things
Travel
$3M20 Jan 2017 Jiangsu

Zhang Tong Jia Yuan

Children
Education
Primary Education
$15M01 Sep 2015 Siming, Fujian

Advertising
Big Data
Marketing
Search Engine
$500K01 Jun 2015 Shanghai, China

Shenzhouying Software Technology

Enterprise
Internet
Software
$4M01 May 2013 Siming, Fujian

Zhang Tong Jia Yuan

Children
Education
Primary Education
$201K01 Apr 2013 Siming, Fujian

YPX Cayman Holdings

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Service Industry
$20M01 Oct 2011 China, Shanghai

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Total investments 42
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 1.68
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

iKala

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Social Media Marketing
Social Shopping
Software
$17M19 Aug 2020 New Taipei

VoiceTube

Education
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
Language Learning
$3M03 Oct 2019 New Taipei

iKala

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Digital Marketing
Machine Learning
Social Media Marketing
Social Shopping
Software
$10M16 Jan 2019 New Taipei

KUICKWHEEL

Internet
Internet of Things
Travel
$3M20 Jan 2017 Jiangsu

Zhang Tong Jia Yuan

Children
Education
Primary Education
$15M01 Sep 2015 Siming, Fujian

Advertising
Big Data
Marketing
Search Engine
$500K01 Jun 2015 Shanghai, China

Shenzhouying Software Technology

Enterprise
Internet
Software
$4M01 May 2013 Siming, Fujian

Zhang Tong Jia Yuan

Children
Education
Primary Education
$201K01 Apr 2013 Siming, Fujian

YPX Cayman Holdings

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
Service Industry
$20M01 Oct 2011 China, Shanghai
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