NetEase
51
40M
42
1.89
16
0.16
3
- Areas of investment
Summary
NetEase is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Hangzhou.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Improbable, Bungie, Mobvista. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Online Games, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite 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.
This NetEase works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2000. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from NetEase is more than 1 billion dollars.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the NetEase, startups are often financed by LVP, Horizons Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners, Dawn Patrol Ventures, Vectr. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upheaval Investments, Second Century Ventures, Ron Suber.
The current fund was established by William Ding. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 51
- Lead investments
- 16
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 1.89
- Follow on index
- 0.16
- Investments by industry
- Gaming (14)
- Video Games (12)
- Media and Entertainment (9)
- Online Games (7)
- Virtual Reality (6) Show 57 more
- Investments by region
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- China (12)
- United States (16)
- United Kingdom (6)
- Nigeria (1)
- Singapore (1) Show 8 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 137M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.61
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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