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Ceres

Founders Masataka Uesugi Yasuhiro Kobayashi

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.12
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Cryptocurrency
  • Blockchain
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • Marketing
Summary

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ceres, startups are often financed by VOYAGE VENTURES, Nippon Venture Capital, Mynavi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Adways Inc., SMBC Venture Capital, Monex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, SBI Group, Niigata Venture Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, FinTech. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Orb. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1SEC

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
UX Design
Virtual Reality
$2M04 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

toridori

Advertising
Business Development
Business Intelligence
Marketing
$4M03 Aug 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

PETOKOTO

Pet
$1M29 Jan 2020 Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Communitio

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Finance
$910K06 Jun 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

BrainCat

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$500K02 Nov 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Fressets

Cryptocurrency
$209K29 Sep 2017 Japan, Chiyoda

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Total investments 18
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.12
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

1SEC

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
UX Design
Virtual Reality
$2M04 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

toridori

Advertising
Business Development
Business Intelligence
Marketing
$4M03 Aug 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

PETOKOTO

Pet
$1M29 Jan 2020 Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Communitio

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Finance
$910K06 Jun 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

BrainCat

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$500K02 Nov 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Fressets

Cryptocurrency
$209K29 Sep 2017 Japan, Chiyoda
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