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Adways Inc.

Founders Haruhisa Okamura

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 2.19
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 8
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Content
Summary

Adways Inc. is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Adways Inc., startups are often financed by East Ventures, ANRI, TLM. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Monex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VOYAGE VENTURES, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Toppan Printing.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CLUE, Inc., Orb, Jiraffe For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MiddleField

Digital Media
E-Commerce
$2M13 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Monokabu Inc.

E-Commerce
Internet
$2M31 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Atmoph

Home Decor
Internet of Things
Travel
$2M26 Jul 2019 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

BLAST Japan

Content
Fashion
Marketing
Media and Entertainment
08 Mar 2018 Japan, Chiyoda

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$637K01 Mar 2018 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$4M27 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$3M15 Nov 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$1M15 Mar 2017 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

WOVN Technologies

Internet
Mining Technology
Service Industry
Software
Translation Service
Web Browsers
Web Development
$3M09 Dec 2016 Japan, Chiyoda

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Total investments 46
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 2.19
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MiddleField

Digital Media
E-Commerce
$2M13 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Monokabu Inc.

E-Commerce
Internet
$2M31 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Atmoph

Home Decor
Internet of Things
Travel
$2M26 Jul 2019 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

BLAST Japan

Content
Fashion
Marketing
Media and Entertainment
08 Mar 2018 Japan, Chiyoda

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$637K01 Mar 2018 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$4M27 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$3M15 Nov 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$1M15 Mar 2017 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

WOVN Technologies

Internet
Mining Technology
Service Industry
Software
Translation Service
Web Browsers
Web Development
$3M09 Dec 2016 Japan, Chiyoda
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