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KongZhong

Founders Nick Yang Yunfan Zhou

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Video Games
  • Publishing
  • Software
  • Digital Entertainment
Summary

KongZhong is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2002. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Beijing. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the KongZhong, startups are often financed by TA Associates, Qiming Venture Partners, IDG Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rustic Canyon Partners, FirstMark, Benchmark.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This KongZhong works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The current fund was established by Nick Yang, Yunfan Zhou.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are eSports, Video Games. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Forgame, Hi-Fun, Meteor Entertainment.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meteor Entertainment

Digital Entertainment
Publishing
Software
Video Games
$18M29 Oct 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.33

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meteor Entertainment

Digital Entertainment
Publishing
Software
Video Games
$18M29 Oct 2012 Seattle, Washington, United States
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