Youku

Total investments

12

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.67

Lead investments

2

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetGamingTrainingEducationContentVirtual RealityVideoDigital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentVideo Streaming

Summary

Youku is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2003. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Beijing. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in China.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Content, News. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vreal, Yinhekuyu Media, Tianjin Galaxy Cool Media.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Youku, startups are often financed by Vulcan Capital, Upfront Ventures, Sparkland Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Youku Global Media Fund, YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital), Talkweb. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YF Capital (Yunfeng Capital), Vulcan Capital, Upfront Ventures.

This organization was formed by Victor Koo.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.67
Investments by industry
  • Media and Entertainment (5)
  • Video (5)
  • Content (4)
  • Digital Entertainment (2)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • China (11)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
1.97

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Feixiong.TV 10 Mar 2016 Internet, Digital Entertainment, Video Games Early Stage Venture 1M Shanghai, China
Vreal 16 Sep 2016 Gaming, Virtual Reality, Video Streaming Seed 0 United States, Washington, Seattle
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