Keytone Ventures

Keytone Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.

The current fund was established by Joe Zhou, Joe Zhou, Zhixiong Zhou. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Keytone Ventures, startups are often financed by Northern Light Venture Capital, DCM Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Northern Light Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins, DCM Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank, GSR Ventures, GDP Venture.

This Keytone Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Keytone Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Artificial Intelligence. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sea, CloudMinds, Beijing Redbaby Internet Technology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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