Benesse
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- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 0.10
- Investments by industry
- E-Learning (3)
- Education (3)
- Internet (2)
- Information Technology (2)
- EdTech (2) Show 11 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (1)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Japan (4)
- India (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2006
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 16
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 462M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.43
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.99
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| istyle Inc. | 17 Oct 2003 | E-Commerce, Internet, Beauty, Cosmetics, Retail, Social Media | Early Stage Venture | Chiyoda, Japan |
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