Colopl Next

Total investments

116

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

12.89

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

11

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyRecruitingArtificial IntelligenceAppsVirtual RealitySocial MediaMedia and Entertainment

Summary

Colopl Next is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in Asia in Japan. Colopl Next appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo.

The current fund was established by Jun Hasebe, Naruatsu Baba, Shintaro Yamakami.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sliver.tv, Fyusion, Odd Concepts. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Virtual Reality. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Colopl Next, startups are often financed by GREE Ventures, GMO VenturePartners, Eight Roads Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Venture Reality Fund, GREE Ventures, Sparkland Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YJ Capital, The Venture Reality Fund, Mizuho Capital.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Colopl Next works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
116
Lead investments
11
Exits
11
Rounds per year
12.89
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Virtual Reality (27)
  • Software (24)
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Internet (12)
  • Information Technology (12)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (57)
  • United States (37)
  • South Korea (10)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Vietnam (1)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.66

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Channel 28 Aug 2017 Video Chat, Marketing Early Stage Venture 40M Chiyoda, Japan
NRISE 31 Dec 2020 Software, Information Technology, Apps, Social Media Seed Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Seocho, South Korea
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