YF Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Shanghai, China

Total investments

149

Average round size

230M

Portfolio companies

117

Rounds per year

10.64

Lead investments

41

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsBiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical

Summary

YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital) appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hong Kong. The company was established in Asia in Hong Kong.

The current fund was established by David Yu, Jack Ma. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital) the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital) performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital), startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Matrix Partners China, Sinovation Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital China, Tencent Holdings, ZhenFund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Video, Pharmaceutical. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, Xiaomi, Koubei. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - China.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
149
Lead investments
41
Exits
15
Rounds per year
10.64
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Internet (22)
  • Health Care (19)
  • Biotechnology (19)
  • Artificial Intelligence (16)
  • Information Technology (16)
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Investments by region
  • China (138)
  • United States (7)
  • Indonesia (2)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
19
Number of Decacorns
26
Number of Minotaurs
19

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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
0.87
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.25
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Duobaoyu Insurance 18 Sep 2019 Software, FinTech, Finance, Mobile Payments, Insurance Early Stage Venture 30M Zhejiang, Shangcheng District, China
HomeSphere 04 Jun 2002 Supply Chain Management, Software, SaaS Late Stage Venture 2M United States, Colorado, Lakewood
LaNova Medicines 01 Jan 2021 Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 87M Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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