Adways Inc.

Total investments

46

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

2.19

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyContentMarketingFashionSportsMedia and EntertainmentVideo Editing

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
3
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.19
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Internet (9)
  • E-Commerce (7)
  • Media and Entertainment (7)
  • Content (6)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (46)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
142K
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
3530 Technologies 30 Mar 2016 Software, Financial Services, Consumer, Consumer Lending Seed 25K United States, Texas, Grapevine
Orb 30 Sep 2015 Software, FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software Seed 2M Chiyoda, Japan
MiddleField 13 Oct 2020 E-Commerce, Digital Media Early Stage Venture 2M Chiyoda, Japan
Voltage 20 Jan 2022 Seed 6M United States, Kansas, Wichita
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