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Canal Ventures

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 1.87
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 1
Key employees 2
https://www.canal-v.com/
Koto, Japan
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Apps
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Internet of Things
  • Tourism
Summary

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Apps, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight One Visa, Sprocket Inc., TYFFON. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Canal Ventures, startups are often financed by Star Power Partners LLC, Incubate Fund, Sony Innovation Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zappallas, Inc., Yamaguchi Capital, X Tech Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tokyo Broadcasting System, Sega Sammy Group, OLM Ventures Inc..

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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1 JR East Start Up
2 POLA Orbis Holdings
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Typical Co-investors
Canal Ventures is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
1 Climate Capital
2 Research Triangle Ventures
3 Slack Venture Capital
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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TieUps

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
SNS
$3M25 Oct 2023
SMBC Venture Capital
Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited
Mitsui Sumitomo Insuarance Venture Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
GMO Pepabo
D.A.Consortium
Canal Ventures
KLab Venture Partners
 Akasaka, Kantō, Japan

alphaics Corporation

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Computer
Semiconductor
$8M20 Jan 2021
JSR Corp
3one4 Capital
Emerald Technology Ventures
Whiteboard Capital
Rebright Partners
IREON Ventures
Endiya Partners
CBC Co
Canal Partners
Canal Ventures
 Milpitas, California, United States

WED

Apps
Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Payments
01 Jan 2021
Chiba Dojo
Canal Ventures
Spiral Capital
 Chiyoda, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020
Mizuho Capital
Mobile Internet Capital
Strive
Energy & Environment Investment
MAKOTO Capital
Drone Fund
Canal Ventures
Japan Post Capital
Kashiwabara
Delight Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

SQUEEZE

Cooking
Hospitality
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Software
$8M01 Apr 2020
Fukuoka Financial Group
ES-CON Japan
Canal Ventures
 Japan, Kita

PIAZZA

Food Processing
$1M05 Dec 2019
KLab Venture Partners
Mizuho Capital
Mitsui Sumitomo Insuarance Venture Capital
Canal Ventures
Mercuria Investment
 Chiyoda, Japan

PLANTIO

Agriculture
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
$1M27 Jun 2019
Canal Ventures
Tokyu Fudosan
JA Mitsui Leasing
Genesia Ventures
 Japan, Chiyoda

Sprocket, Inc.

Customer Service
Digital Marketing
Service Industry
$2M04 Jun 2019
Salesforce Ventures
Canal Ventures
XTech Ventures
 Setagaya, Japan

CLAS

Internet
$56M29 May 2019
ANRI
Canal Ventures
 Japan, Chiyoda
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Total investments 28
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 1.87
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TieUps

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
SNS
$3M25 Oct 2023
SMBC Venture Capital
Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited
Mitsui Sumitomo Insuarance Venture Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
GMO Pepabo
D.A.Consortium
Canal Ventures
KLab Venture Partners
 Akasaka, Kantō, Japan

alphaics Corporation

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Computer
Semiconductor
$8M20 Jan 2021
JSR Corp
3one4 Capital
Emerald Technology Ventures
Whiteboard Capital
Rebright Partners
IREON Ventures
Endiya Partners
CBC Co
Canal Partners
Canal Ventures
 Milpitas, California, United States

WED

Apps
Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Payments
01 Jan 2021
Chiba Dojo
Canal Ventures
Spiral Capital
 Chiyoda, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020
Mizuho Capital
Mobile Internet Capital
Strive
Energy & Environment Investment
MAKOTO Capital
Drone Fund
Canal Ventures
Japan Post Capital
Kashiwabara
Delight Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

SQUEEZE

Cooking
Hospitality
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Software
$8M01 Apr 2020
Fukuoka Financial Group
ES-CON Japan
Canal Ventures
 Japan, Kita

PIAZZA

Food Processing
$1M05 Dec 2019
KLab Venture Partners
Mizuho Capital
Mitsui Sumitomo Insuarance Venture Capital
Canal Ventures
Mercuria Investment
 Chiyoda, Japan

PLANTIO

Agriculture
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
$1M27 Jun 2019
Canal Ventures
Tokyu Fudosan
JA Mitsui Leasing
Genesia Ventures
 Japan, Chiyoda

Sprocket, Inc.

Customer Service
Digital Marketing
Service Industry
$2M04 Jun 2019
Salesforce Ventures
Canal Ventures
XTech Ventures
 Setagaya, Japan

CLAS

Internet
$56M29 May 2019
ANRI
Canal Ventures
 Japan, Chiyoda
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