Ant Capital Partners

Total investments

26

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

1.13

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SalesHealth CareCareer PlanningManufacturingEventsVideoElectronicsAdvertisingMeeting SoftwareAd Network

Summary

Ant Capital Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ant Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Voyager Capital, Crosslink Capital, SJF Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sansei Capital Investment, Linear Venture, Yuetai holding group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yasuda Enterprise Development, NIF SMBC Ventures, Japan Asia Investment.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, VoIP. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ayla Networks, PPmoney, XConnect Global Networks. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
1
Exits
7
Rounds per year
1.13
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Advertising (3)
  • Career Planning (3)
  • Ad Network (3)
  • Events (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (3)
  • Japan (21)
  • United States (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2009

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
18

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
PPmoney 21 Dec 2016 Internet, Financial Services, FinTech, Developer Platform, Wealth Management Early Stage Venture 57M Guangdong, Guangzhou, China

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