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Kingsoft

Founders Jun Lei

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$119M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.33
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 5
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Cloud Computing
  • Internet
  • Web Hosting
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WELINK

Cloud Computing
Information Services
Video
01 Oct 2019 Beijing

Kingsoft Cloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Internet
Web Hosting
$60M11 Feb 2016 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Air Bay Creative

Developer Platform
Gaming
Video Games
$2M15 Jun 2015 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Zhigu

Advice
Consulting
Intellectual Property
$428K27 May 2015 China, Beijing

Lakala

E-Commerce
Fashion
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
Sales
$20M01 Jan 2004 China, Beijing

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Total investments 12
Average round size 119M
Rounds per year 0.33
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WELINK

Cloud Computing
Information Services
Video
01 Oct 2019 Beijing

Kingsoft Cloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Internet
Web Hosting
$60M11 Feb 2016 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Air Bay Creative

Developer Platform
Gaming
Video Games
$2M15 Jun 2015 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

Zhigu

Advice
Consulting
Intellectual Property
$428K27 May 2015 China, Beijing

Lakala

E-Commerce
Fashion
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
Sales
$20M01 Jan 2004 China, Beijing
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