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Ant Capital Partners

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 1.13
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Advertising
  • Career Planning
  • Ad Network
  • Events
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SeetaTech

Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$1M11 Oct 2017 Beijing

PPmoney

Developer Platform
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
Wealth Management
$57M21 Dec 2016 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Electronics
Nanotechnology
Video
$15M09 Mar 2011 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Agile Media Network

Ad Network
Advertising
Career Planning
Events
Meeting Software
$1M30 Sep 2009 Chiyoda

Cerevo

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile
Photo Sharing
Software
Wireless
$1M15 Jan 2009 Chiyoda

XConnect Global Networks

Messaging
Telecommunications
Video
VoIP
$12M24 Apr 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$1M15 Aug 2006 Chiyoda

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Total investments 26
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.13
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.42

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SeetaTech

Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$1M11 Oct 2017 Beijing

PPmoney

Developer Platform
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
Wealth Management
$57M21 Dec 2016 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Electronics
Nanotechnology
Video
$15M09 Mar 2011 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Agile Media Network

Ad Network
Advertising
Career Planning
Events
Meeting Software
$1M30 Sep 2009 Chiyoda

Cerevo

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile
Photo Sharing
Software
Wireless
$1M15 Jan 2009 Chiyoda

XConnect Global Networks

Messaging
Telecommunications
Video
VoIP
$12M24 Apr 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$1M15 Aug 2006 Chiyoda
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