Tencent Holdings

Total investments

829

Average round size

265M

Portfolio companies

581

Rounds per year

31.88

Lead investments

179

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

113

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareApps

Summary

Tencent Holdings is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Shenzhen.

When the investment is from Tencent Holdings the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Tencent Holdings performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

This organization was formed by Chen Ye Xu, Pony Ma, Zhidong Zhang. The overall number of key employees were 42.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Apps, Internet. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, Didi Chuxing, Meituan-Dianping

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Tencent Holdings, startups are often financed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Spark Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Matrix Partners China, ZhenFund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qiming Venture Partners, Sinovation Ventures, Matrix Partners China.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
829
Lead investments
179
Exits
113
Rounds per year
31.88
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (114)
  • Internet (106)
  • E-Commerce (95)
  • Financial Services (89)
  • Health Care (77)
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Investments by region
  • China (433)
  • United States (143)
  • India (39)
  • Indonesia (11)
  • Germany (18)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
98
Number of Decacorns
128
Number of Minotaurs
68

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.59
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
NeuroDawn Pharmaceutical 12 Jan 2024 Early Stage Venture 30M Jiangsu, Jiangning, China
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