Archetype Ventures

Total investments

82

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

7.45

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSBig DataCloud ComputingAdvertising

Summary

Archetype Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Analytics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Autify, Bespoke, Dennoo

The fund was created by Jun Nakajima, Shumpei Fukui. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Archetype Ventures, startups are often financed by Draper Nexus Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, Nissay Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, Nissay Capital, Venture United. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nissay Capital, Draper Nexus Ventures, Eric Di Benedetto.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Archetype Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
82
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
7.45
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Analytics (15)
  • Artificial Intelligence (13)
  • Machine Learning (13)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (69)
  • United States (12)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.69

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hubble 06 Apr 2022 Software, Analytics, Information Technology, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Legal Tech, Data Center Automation Early Stage Venture 5M Chiyoda, Japan
REVORN 06 Jun 2024 Software, 3D Technology, Hardware, App Discovery Seed 2M Chiyoda, Japan
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