Kingdom Holding Company

Total investments

9

Average round size

1B

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.32

Lead investments

3

Exits

5

Areas of investment
LogisticsWholesaleE-CommerceInternetTransportationRetailMachine LearningAppsMarketplaceRide Sharing

Summary

In 1996 was created Kingdom Holding Company, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Riyadh. The company was established in Asia in Saudi Arabia.

This organization was formed by Alwaleed Bin Talal. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

This Kingdom Holding Company works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Kingdom Holding Company the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Transportation. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight JD.com, Snap, Lyft.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Kingdom Holding Company, startups are often financed by Lumia Capital, Endure Capital, Didi Chuxing. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rakuten, Alibaba Group, STV - Overview. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rakuten, M13, Graphene Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Logistics (2)
  • Marketplace (2)
  • Internet (2)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Apps (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • France (2)
  • China (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
  • Saudi Arabia (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7B
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.76
Strategy success index
1.00

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