Youku
12
4M
12
0.67
2
1
- Areas of investment
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.
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) Show 20 more
- Investments by region
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- China (11)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
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- 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 |
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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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