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istyle Inc.

Founders Hamada Kensaku Meyumi Yamada Oki Hideaki Sugawara Kei Tetsuro Yoshimatsu Yasukane Matsumoto

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.65
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Post-Ipo

Areas of investment

  • Beauty
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • E-Commerce
  • Cosmetics
Summary

istyle Inc. is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1999. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The current fund was established by Meyumi Yamada, Tetsuro yoshimatsu.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Beauty, Restaurants. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sociolla, C Channel, Toreta. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the istyle Inc., startups are often financed by Dream Incubator, East Ventures, World Innovation Lab (WiL). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Excite Japan Co., Ltd., TBS Innovation Partners, Salesforce Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EV Growth, iSGS Investment Works, World Innovation Lab (WiL).

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sociolla

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
20 Jan 2017 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Toreta

Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$2M29 Feb 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Open8

Android
Video
$7M28 Oct 2015 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Grand Design

E-Commerce
Media and Entertainment
Virtual Goods
$2M26 Jun 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

C Channel

Fashion
Media and Entertainment
Video
$4M10 Apr 2015 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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Total investments 15
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.65
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sociolla

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Lifestyle
20 Jan 2017 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Toreta

Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$2M29 Feb 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Open8

Android
Video
$7M28 Oct 2015 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Grand Design

E-Commerce
Media and Entertainment
Virtual Goods
$2M26 Jun 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

C Channel

Fashion
Media and Entertainment
Video
$4M10 Apr 2015 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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