Kingsoft

Total investments

12

Average round size

119M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

5

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesAppsCloud InfrastructureCloud ComputingVideoSearch EngineWeb Hosting

Summary

Kingsoft is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1988. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Hong Kong. The venture was found in Asia in Hong Kong.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Blockchain. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Beijing LaKala Billing Services, 21viaNet, Kingsoft Cloud.

Opposing the other organizations, this Kingsoft works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Kingsoft is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Kingsoft, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, Xiaomi, Yuri Milner. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Xiaomi, IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Legend Capital, Shunwei Capital, Liyue Investment.

The current fund was established by Jun Lei. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Cloud Computing (6)
  • Internet (5)
  • Web Hosting (5)
  • Cloud Infrastructure (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (12)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
557M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Strategy success index
0.50

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