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OPT

Founders Atsushi Nouchi Matsuda Kiyoshi Noboru Hachimine Okabe Akihiko

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 0.69
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 6
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Advertising
  • Apps
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
Summary

OPT appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1994. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

This organization was formed by Atsushi Nouchi.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Apps, Apps. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Raksul, milog, Shuttlerock. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this OPT performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the OPT, startups are often financed by Global Brain Corporation, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, World Innovation Lab (WiL). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YJ Capital, Global Catalyst Partners, ITOCHU Technology Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VOYAGE VENTURES, SMBC Venture Capital, Global Catalyst Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Shuttlerock

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Apps
Content Marketing
Facebook
Mobile Apps
Social Media Marketing
Video
Video Advertising
$1M26 Sep 2016 Nelson, New Zealand

Fuller

Analytics
Big Data
Mobile
Software
$1M27 Feb 2015 Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Raksul

B2B
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Printing
$33M17 Feb 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Nota

Collaboration
Developer Tools
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$2M11 Nov 2014 Japan, Kyoto Prefecture

Omni

Apps
Marketplace
Mobile
$3M01 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Cocon

Artificial Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Cyber Security
$1M07 Jul 2014 Chiyoda

Pathee

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Search Engine
$1M01 May 2014 Chiyoda

Coconala

E-Commerce
E-Learning
Internet
Legal
Sales
Skill Assessment
$1M04 Sep 2013 Kanagawa Prefecture

GENIEE

Ad Network
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
$684K10 May 2013 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 20
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.69
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Shuttlerock

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Apps
Content Marketing
Facebook
Mobile Apps
Social Media Marketing
Video
Video Advertising
$1M26 Sep 2016 Nelson, New Zealand

Fuller

Analytics
Big Data
Mobile
Software
$1M27 Feb 2015 Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Raksul

B2B
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Printing
$33M17 Feb 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Nota

Collaboration
Developer Tools
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$2M11 Nov 2014 Japan, Kyoto Prefecture

Omni

Apps
Marketplace
Mobile
$3M01 Sep 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Cocon

Artificial Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Cyber Security
$1M07 Jul 2014 Chiyoda

Pathee

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Search Engine
$1M01 May 2014 Chiyoda

Coconala

E-Commerce
E-Learning
Internet
Legal
Sales
Skill Assessment
$1M04 Sep 2013 Kanagawa Prefecture

GENIEE

Ad Network
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Digital Marketing
$684K10 May 2013 Chiyoda, Japan
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