JAFCO Asia

Total investments

183

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

139

Rounds per year

5.38

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

49

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareManufacturingAdvertisingWireless

Summary

JAFCO Asia is the famous VC, which was founded in 1990. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Singapore. The company was established in Asia in Singapore.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the JAFCO Asia, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, OrbiMed. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), Technology Venture Partners, Gobi Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Globespan Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Qiming Venture Partners.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ChinaCache, InMyShow, Black Fish. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Semiconductor. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The typical startup value when the investment from JAFCO Asia is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this JAFCO Asia performs on 0 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 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
183
Lead investments
32
Exits
49
Rounds per year
5.38
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (35)
  • E-Commerce (26)
  • Internet (24)
  • Mobile (21)
  • Information Technology (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (64)
  • China (55)
  • India (19)
  • Taiwan (7)
  • Singapore (11)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
517M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
3.37
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Driffle 08 Nov 2022 E-Commerce Seed 3M
Youyi Biotechnology 25 Jan 2024 Cosmetics, Manufacturing, Biopharma Seed Jiangsu, Suzhou, China

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