Askul
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79M
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0.10
1
0.17
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Askul is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1963. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Toyosu.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as B2B, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight STAR FESTIVAL. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Askul, startups are often financed by Archetype Ventures, YJ Capital, Visionnaire Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Visionnaire Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sony Innovation Fund, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Mitsui Fudosan.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.10
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Logistics (4)
- Software (2)
- Transportation (2)
- Big Data (2)
- Task Management (1) Show 10 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (6)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 3M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.50
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.89
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacobu | 18 Nov 2016 | Logistics, Transportation, Software, Big Data | Seed | 1M | Minato, Japan |
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