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Benesse

Founders Tetsuhiko Fukutake

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 3
Exits 5
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Learning
  • Education
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • EdTech
Summary

In 1955 was created Benesse, which is appeared as Corporate Investor.

This Benesse works on 71 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Benesse, startups are often financed by ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Atomico, VenturEast. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yahoo! Japan, Sunbridge Partners, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MUFG Bank, Kodansha, CyberAgent.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quipper. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cosmetics, Apps. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CoDMON

E-Learning
iOS
27 Feb 2019 Chiyoda

Quipper

Apps
EdTech
Education
iOS
$5M06 Mar 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

InOpen

E-Learning
Education
Training
24 Nov 2013 Maharashtra

istyle

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
Social Media
17 Oct 2003 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 7
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2006
Lead investments 3
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CoDMON

E-Learning
iOS
27 Feb 2019 Chiyoda

Quipper

Apps
EdTech
Education
iOS
$5M06 Mar 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

InOpen

E-Learning
Education
Training
24 Nov 2013 Maharashtra

istyle

Beauty
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Internet
Retail
Social Media
17 Oct 2003 Chiyoda, Japan
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