YI Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Beijing, China

Total investments

27

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

2.70

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.07

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesEnterpriseMobileArtificial IntelligenceSecurityVideo GamesAgriculture

Summary

Yi Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Beijing. The venture was found in Asia in China.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Food Delivery. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FlashEX, Shansong Express (FlashEx), Xingyuan Auto.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Yi Capital, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Shunwei Capital, Yonghua Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, Shunwei Capital, Yunqi Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shunwei Capital, Hearst Ventures, V Star Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
2.70
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Enterprise (4)
  • Financial Services (3)
  • Mobile (3)
  • Agriculture (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (25)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
44M
Group Appearance index
0.78

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Smardaten 01 Jan 2018 Seed Jiangsu, Jiangning, China
Xingyuan Auto 05 Mar 2018 Wholesale, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Marketing Early Stage Venture 79M China, Beijing, Dongcheng District

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