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NetEase

Founders William Ding

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 1.89
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 3
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Video Games
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Online Games
  • Virtual Reality
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Skylimit Entertainment Group

Media and Entertainment
07 Oct 2023 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Wanmi Culture

Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
14 Jun 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Vark

Gaming
$9M12 May 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

CharacterBank

Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$3M24 Apr 2023 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Astrid Entertainment

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
14 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Something Wicked Games

Gaming
Video Games
$13M23 Aug 2022 Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Something Random

Gaming
Online Games
Software
Virtual Reality
05 Jul 2022 Lodz, Lodzkie, Poland

Point One

E-Commerce
$36M23 May 2022 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
News
Seattle startup AccelByte raises $10M to help developers build multiplayer online games

– Seattle-based startup AccelByte has raised $10m funding.
– The funding was led by New York-based VC firm Galaxy Interactive, with additional funding from the Hangzhou-based NetEase, which publishes many mobile games for the Chinese market; the South Korean firm KRAFTON, publisher/developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds; and Dreamhaven, which was launched late last year in Irvine, Calif., by departing Blizzard CEO/co-founder Mike Morhaime.
– AccelByte’s overall suite of tools is intended to provide necessary programs and scalable architecture to game developers that plan to operate “games-as-a-service” (GaaS) — releases that make their money from in-app purchases or subscription fees rather than a single up-front purchase price.

Maestro Secures $15 Million Series B to Accelerate the Growth of the Creator Economy

– Maestro announced a $15m Series B funding round.
– New investors include NetEase, Sony Music Entertainment, and Acronym Venture Capital, alongside a host of industry titans including Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Moonwell Capital, founded by former Activision Blizzard executives Michael and Amy Morhaime.
– Several existing investors also contributed to the round including SeventySix Capital, The Strand Partners, Stadia Ventures, Hersh Interactive Group, and Transcend Fund, as well as early Zoom employees Richard Gatchalian and Aaron Lewis.
– Maestro more than tripled revenue in 2020, grew its team fivefold in the last six months, and paid out millions of dollars to creators since the launch of its monetization tools in May.
– The Series B capital will fuel value chain expansion of its products and continued diversification of its customer base.

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Total investments 51
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 1.89
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.61

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Skylimit Entertainment Group

Media and Entertainment
07 Oct 2023 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Wanmi Culture

Marketing
Sales
Service Industry
14 Jun 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Vark

Gaming
$9M12 May 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

CharacterBank

Online Games
Video Games
Virtual Reality
$3M24 Apr 2023 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Astrid Entertainment

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
14 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Something Wicked Games

Gaming
Video Games
$13M23 Aug 2022 Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Something Random

Gaming
Online Games
Software
Virtual Reality
05 Jul 2022 Lodz, Lodzkie, Poland

Point One

E-Commerce
$36M23 May 2022 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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