Ward Ferry Management

Total investments

13

Average round size

189M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.54

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Application SoftwareInformation Services (B2C)Hotels and ResortsSocial/Platform SoftwareE-CommerceInternetInformation TechnologyMobileHospitalityHotel

Summary

The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Hong Kong. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Hong Kong.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Ward Ferry Management works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Hotel, E-Commerce. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Thailand. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Treebo Hotels, Ensogo. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Ward Ferry Management, startups are often financed by SAIF Partners, Matrix Partners India, Weipinhui. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sequoia Capital China. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weipinhui, InnoVen Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.54
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Internet (5)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Hospitality (3)
  • Information Services (B2C) (3)
  • Application Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • Indonesia (1)
  • India (5)
  • Singapore (1)
  • China (2)
  • Vietnam (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3B
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
2
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ensogo 12 Mar 2015 E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile Late Stage Venture 7M Thailand, Bangkok

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