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Yao Capital

Founders David Han

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 9
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Sports
  • Gaming
  • eSports
  • Training
  • Video
Summary

Yao Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China. The main department of described VC is located in the Shanghai.

This organization was formed by David Han. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Ent. Evolution, Supermonkey, Doing Now The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Sports.

When the investment is from Yao Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Yao Capital, startups are often financed by Fosun RZ Capital, Ventech China, Huayi Brothers Media Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Huayi Brothers Media Group, United Media FOFs, TwinFocus Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eSports
Event Management
Gaming
14 Jun 2019 Shanghai

Casual Games
Digital Media
Online Portals
Sports
Video
$54M05 Sep 2018 Beijing

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
$57M19 Jun 2018 Xinjiang

EDward Gaming

eSports
Gaming
Online Games
04 May 2018 Shanghai

Shankai Sports International

Event Management
Sports
$45M08 Dec 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Education
eSports
Sports
Training
$75M28 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Events
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$3M29 Aug 2017 China, Jiading District

MAILMAN GROUP

Advertising
Market Research
Marketing
$3M15 Aug 2017 China, Shanghai

XianyuGame

Digital Entertainment
Gaming
Publishing
Sports
$27M09 May 2017 Futian District, Guangdong Province

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Total investments 12
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 9
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

eSports
Event Management
Gaming
14 Jun 2019 Shanghai

Casual Games
Digital Media
Online Portals
Sports
Video
$54M05 Sep 2018 Beijing

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
$57M19 Jun 2018 Xinjiang

EDward Gaming

eSports
Gaming
Online Games
04 May 2018 Shanghai

Shankai Sports International

Event Management
Sports
$45M08 Dec 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Education
eSports
Sports
Training
$75M28 Sep 2017 China, Beijing

Events
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$3M29 Aug 2017 China, Jiading District

MAILMAN GROUP

Advertising
Market Research
Marketing
$3M15 Aug 2017 China, Shanghai

XianyuGame

Digital Entertainment
Gaming
Publishing
Sports
$27M09 May 2017 Futian District, Guangdong Province
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