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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$79M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Logistics
  • Software
  • Transportation
  • Big Data
  • Task Management
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PeaceTecLab

Real Estate
Rental
Smart Home
$3M11 Jul 2018 Chiyoda

Hacobu

Big Data
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$1M18 Nov 2016 Minato, Japan

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Total investments 6
Average round size 79M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PeaceTecLab

Real Estate
Rental
Smart Home
$3M11 Jul 2018 Chiyoda

Hacobu

Big Data
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$1M18 Nov 2016 Minato, Japan
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