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Nissay Capital

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Total investments 318
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 219
Rounds per year 9.64
Lead investments 53
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 31
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1991 was created Nissay Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Crowdsourcing, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Raksul, Sansan, Itandi.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Nissay Capital, startups are often financed by Incubate Fund, CyberAgent Capital, Archetype Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Nippon Venture Capital, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, SBI Investment.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Nissay Capital works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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$1M05 Apr 2024 Setagaya, Japan

Dodai

$4M12 Mar 2024 Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia

Emulsion Flow Technologies

$12M08 Mar 2024 Ibaraki, Kantō, Japan

Yap

27 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Pocket Sign

$3M21 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ORIGINAL LIFE

Digital Media
Wedding
$4M29 Jan 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Memory Lab

Consumer Research
Life Science
$819K24 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Glocalist

Consulting
Management Consulting
Risk Management
22 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ABEL

$673K29 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan
News
Heartseed Raises $37 Million in Series C Funding to Accelerate Development of iPSC-derived Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure

– Heartseed, a Tokyo-based biotechnology company developing iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes for heart failure (HF), announced it has raised 4 Billion-yen (approx. $37 Million) at Series C round, bringing its total financial backing to 8.2 Billion yen (approx. $75 Million) since its foundation in 2015.
– New investors are UTokyo Innovation Platform Co. (UTokyo IPC), Medical Incubator Japan, Keio Innovation Initiative (KII), and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment. Among the existing investors, SBI Group, Nissay Capital, SMBC Capital, Medipal Holdings, and Itochu Chemical Frontier participated in this round.

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Total investments 318
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 9.64
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 53
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 31
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pick You

$1M05 Apr 2024 Setagaya, Japan

Dodai

$4M12 Mar 2024 Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia

Emulsion Flow Technologies

$12M08 Mar 2024 Ibaraki, Kantō, Japan

Yap

27 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Pocket Sign

$3M21 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ORIGINAL LIFE

Digital Media
Wedding
$4M29 Jan 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Memory Lab

Consumer Research
Life Science
$819K24 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Glocalist

Consulting
Management Consulting
Risk Management
22 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ABEL

$673K29 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan
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