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Toutiao

Founders Yiming Zhang

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$49M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • EdTech
  • E-Learning
  • Animation
  • Internet
Summary

Toutiao appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2012. The company was established in Asia in China. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Beijing.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Toutiao, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Shunwei Capital, H Capital Advance. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, Yunqi Partners, Tiantu Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yunqi Partners, Xianghe Capital, Temasek Holdings.

The fund was created by Yiming Zhang.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Toutiao is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight 17zuoye, Xiaoyang Edu, Kuaikan Manhua. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Language Learning, Animation. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xiaoyang Edu

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
21 May 2018 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Animation
06 Mar 2018 China, Beijing

Kuaikan Manhua

Art
Comics
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
$38M11 Jan 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Education
Food and Beverage
Training
$7M16 Jun 2016 Zhongyuan District, Henan

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Total investments 5
Average round size 49M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xiaoyang Edu

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
21 May 2018 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Animation
06 Mar 2018 China, Beijing

Kuaikan Manhua

Art
Comics
Digital Media
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Media and Entertainment
$38M11 Jan 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Education
Food and Beverage
Training
$7M16 Jun 2016 Zhongyuan District, Henan
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