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The9

Founders Jun Zhu

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • News
  • Apps
  • Mobile
  • Online Games
Summary

The9 appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in Asia in China. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Shanghai.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this The9 works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2010. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Gaming, Content. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Faraday Future, Aurora Feint, G10 Entertainment. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the The9, startups are often financed by Time Warner Investments, Intel Capital, YouWeb. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Time Warner Investments, Intel Capital, YouWeb. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Time Warner Investments, Intel Capital, YouWeb.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seed Star

$2M16 Sep 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Red 5 Studios

Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Online Games
Software
$23M22 Mar 2010 California, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seed Star

$2M16 Sep 2021 Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Red 5 Studios

Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Online Games
Software
$23M22 Mar 2010 California, United States
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