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- 1. State of Startup Fundraising 2018 Edith Yeung November 2017
- 2. Edith YeungSelected by Inc's Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley’s investors you must know, Edith Yeung is the head of 500 Startups Greater China and partner of 500 Mobile Collective Fund. Edith invested in over 40 mobile, VR, AR, AI and machine learning startups, including Hooked - #1 reading app for millennium, DayDayCook - #1 Asian Cooking media and platform, Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense, and many more. Before 500, Edith was the head of marketing for Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia- backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless and Autodesk. Edith Yeung | @edithyeung | edith.co
- 14. Edith’s Top 10 List
- 15. Number 10 Too much money chasing too little great deals
- 16. Over $31 Billion Venture Capital Funds Raised in the US in 2017 Alone Source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/319684/venture-capital-fundraising-usa/
- 17. $231 Billion was Raised by 297 Newly Established Chinese Funds by End of 2015 Source - https://www.techinasia.com/china-state-vc-fund-over-330-billion-dollars
- 18. Number 9 ICO is here to stay
- 19. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have exploded in popularity, closing on $3B+ in funding in 2017 alone.
- 20. Entrepreneurs Prefer Raising Money from ICO than from VCs Source: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/blockchain-startup-deals-ico-trend/
- 21. Number 8 The Rise of Crypto Hedge Funds
- 22. More than 90 Cryptocurrency Funds Have Launched in 2017. Bringing Net Total to 124 Source - https://www.slimstrategic.com/single-post/2017/09/01/50-Hedge-Funds-and-Venture-Capital-Firms-Specializing-in-Crypto-Investments
- 23. TechCrunch Founder Launch Ripple XRP Hedge Fund. Polychain Capital AUM Grow from $4 million to $200 million in 10 months. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/07/10/the-emperors-new-coins-how-initial-coin-offerings-fueled-a-100-billion-crypto-bubble/2/ #14af387b2ccb
- 24. Number 7 Buzzword Investors are Here to Stay
- 27. Number 6 Later stage investors don’t want to be so late
- 28. Temasek with 275 billion SGD Asset Raised $210M SE Asia Fund Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-08/temasek-s-vertex-raises-210-million-for-southeast-asian-deals
- 30. Number 5 Softbank Effect: The Age of Very Large Deals
- 34. Number 4 Silicon Valley is NOT the Only Place for Funding
- 35. Chinese Startups Raised Much Larger Rounds on Average. 50 – 200% Higher Than Other Regions Source - https://www.cbinsights.com/research/regional-vc-funnels/
- 36. Top 10 Startups Cities According to Edith 1. Silicon Valley 2. Beijing 3. Tel Aviv 4. Shanghai 5. Hangzhou 6. New York 7. Los Angeles 8. London 9. Seattle 10. Berlin
- 37. Number 3 Governments Want You
- 41. Number 2 Corporates Want You
- 42. 160+ corporate VCs completing deals each quarter focusing on fintech, digital health, AI, food and beverage. Source - https://www.cbinsights.com/research/corporate-venture-capital-active-2014/
- 44. Number 1 China Wants You
- 45. Chinese Investors Wants to Invest in Artificial Intellige
- 46. Artificial Intelligence (AI) – China Invested $2.6 Billion in AI Startups in 2016. AI Market will Reach $9.1 Billion USD by 2020 Source h)p://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ar6cle/2100427/chinas-‐ai-‐revolu6on-‐and-‐how-‐its-‐rivalling-‐us Company Sector Amount Raised Investors Sensetime Deep learning $410M CDH Investments, IDG Capital Partners, Morningside, TCL Capital, WANDA Group Mobvoi Voice AI $251.62 Volkswagen, Google, SIG China ICarbonX Health AI $199.48M China Bridge Capital, Tencent Face++ Computer vision $147M Foxconn, Qiming, Sinovation Ubtech Robotics $120M CDH, CITIC, Qiming Roobo Robotics $100M Iflytek Unisound Voice AI $66.33M Qiming Yitu Computer vision $55M Banyan, Hillhouse, Sequioa, Zhenfund AISpeech Voice AI $45M DCM, Legend Star, Alibaba
- 47. Baidu launches $1.5 billion autonomous driving fund
- 48. China Pledges $124 billion for One Belt and One Road Initiative Related Investments Source; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-silkroad-africa/china-pledges-124-billion-for-new-silk-road-as-champion-of-globalization-idUSKBN18A02I
- 49. Education eSport Gaming Entertainment Artificial intelligence Fintech Autonomous driving Industrial 4.0 IOT Genomics Healthcare Quantum computing
- 50. Edith’s Top 10 List – State of Startup Funding 2018 10 - Too much money chasing too little great deals 9 - ICO is here to stay 8 – Rise of Crypto Hedge Fund 7 - Buzzword investors are here to stay 6 - Later stage investors don’t want to be so late 5 - Softbank effect: The age of large deals 4 - Silicon Valley is not the only place 3 - Governments want you 2 - Corporate investors want you 1 - Chinese investors want you
- 51. Startup fundraising future is really bright!
- 52. • edith@500startups.com • Twitter @edithyeung • Newsletter http://www.edith.co/ #newsletter Contact me