Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

JD.com

Founders Qiangdong Liu

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 97
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$367M
Portfolio companies 85
Rounds per year 3.73
Lead investments 39
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 17
Key employees 30

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Retail
  • Shopping
Summary

JD.com appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1998. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Beijing.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from JD.com is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this JD.com works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the JD.com, startups are often financed by DCM Ventures, IDG Capital, Sequoia Capital China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Baidu, Tiantu Capital, Shunwei Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund, GreatWall Fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Go-Jek, Ele.me, JD Health. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Retail.

The current fund was established by Qiangdong Liu. Besides them, we counted 29 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of JD.com:
Typical Co-investors
JD.com is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after JD.com:
There are no funds here. If we find new data, we will add it here.

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Terminus Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Robotics
Software
$309M12 Aug 2019 Beijing

Tickled Media

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Communities
Content
Identity Management
Publishing
12 Jul 2019 Central

theAsianparent

Communities
News
Publishing
10 Jul 2019 Singapore, Central, Singapore

JD Health

E-Commerce
Health Care
Medical
Nutrition
$1B13 May 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Mogu Zhixing

Apps
SaaS
Software
$120M01 Feb 2019 China, Hunan, China

Aobag

Consumer
$1M25 Jan 2019 Qingyang District, Sichuan, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$3M16 Jan 2019 China, Jiangsu

Enterprise
$2M27 Dec 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province

Enterprise
$14M25 Dec 2018 Zhongyuan District, Henan

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent JD.com?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 97
Average round size 367M
Rounds per year 3.73
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 39
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Terminus Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Robotics
Software
$309M12 Aug 2019 Beijing

Tickled Media

Advertising
Brand Marketing
Communities
Content
Identity Management
Publishing
12 Jul 2019 Central

theAsianparent

Communities
News
Publishing
10 Jul 2019 Singapore, Central, Singapore

JD Health

E-Commerce
Health Care
Medical
Nutrition
$1B13 May 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Mogu Zhixing

Apps
SaaS
Software
$120M01 Feb 2019 China, Hunan, China

Aobag

Consumer
$1M25 Jan 2019 Qingyang District, Sichuan, China

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$3M16 Jan 2019 China, Jiangsu

Enterprise
$2M27 Dec 2018 Futian District, Guangdong Province

Enterprise
$14M25 Dec 2018 Zhongyuan District, Henan
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: