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Rakuten Capital

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Total investments 58
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 2.15
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • FinTech
  • Mobile
Summary

In 1997 was created Rakuten Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Setagaya. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. Rakuten Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Rakuten Capital, startups are often financed by Seaya Ventures, Morado Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maven Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Work-Bench. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rakuten, Golden Gate Ventures, Sequoia Capital India.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Go-Jek, Cabify, Black Fish The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Developer Tools. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Rakuten Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Leal

Analytics
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$5M30 Jan 2024 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

PETOKOTO

Pet
$3M13 Dec 2023 Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

ElecTorq Technologies

Automotive
$8M21 Nov 2023 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Airalo

Mobile Apps
Telecommunications
Travel
$60M31 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

TeraWatt Technology

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
05 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Ubie

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
SaaS
$17M08 Dec 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Digital Entertainment Asset

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
17 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Amondz

Fashion
Jewelry
Retail
$6M25 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

twid

FinTech
$12M02 Aug 2022 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
News
Robin.io Raises $38M in Series C Funding

– Robin.io, a San Jose, CA-based leader in Kubernetes-based cloud-native 5G, edge and enterprise application management, closed a $38M Series C funding round.
– The round was led by Rakuten Capital and joined by Clear Ventures, Emory University, Raine Next-Gen Communications and current investors.
– This latest major backing for the company comes as bookings growth at Robin.io has surpassed 400% quarter-over-quarter when comparing the first two quarters of the current fiscal year.

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Total investments 58
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 2.15
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Leal

Analytics
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
$5M30 Jan 2024 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

PETOKOTO

Pet
$3M13 Dec 2023 Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

ElecTorq Technologies

Automotive
$8M21 Nov 2023 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Airalo

Mobile Apps
Telecommunications
Travel
$60M31 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

TeraWatt Technology

Battery
Electronics
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
05 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Ubie

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
SaaS
$17M08 Dec 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Digital Entertainment Asset

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
17 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Amondz

Fashion
Jewelry
Retail
$6M25 Aug 2022 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

twid

FinTech
$12M02 Aug 2022 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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