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Cool Japan Fund

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$32M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 2.30
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Fashion
  • Leisure
  • Tourism
  • Travel
Summary

Cool Japan Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Spiber, Tastemade, Hyakusenrenma Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Content, Social Media. 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.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Cool Japan Fund, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Raine Ventures, 500 Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yoshimoto Kogyo, Walden International, Redpoint.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pizza 4P's

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$10M14 Nov 2022 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Spiber

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Building Material
Life Science
$222M08 Sep 2021 Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

IMCF

Fashion
Marketing
Personal Branding
$11M13 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

KKday

E-Commerce
Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$75M28 Sep 2020 New Taipei, Taiwan

Vpon Big Data Group

Advertising
Big Data
Mobile
Service Industry
$40M10 Sep 2020 New Taipei, Taiwan

Yamagata Design

Project Management
Property Development
Property Management
$7M30 Jun 2020 Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

$30M05 Dec 2019 Houston, Texas, United States

KKday

E-Commerce
Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$10M30 Aug 2019 New Taipei

Winc

E-Commerce
Hospitality
Wine And Spirits
$10M23 Jul 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 32M
Rounds per year 2.30
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.17
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pizza 4P's

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$10M14 Nov 2022 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Spiber

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Building Material
Life Science
$222M08 Sep 2021 Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

IMCF

Fashion
Marketing
Personal Branding
$11M13 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

KKday

E-Commerce
Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$75M28 Sep 2020 New Taipei, Taiwan

Vpon Big Data Group

Advertising
Big Data
Mobile
Service Industry
$40M10 Sep 2020 New Taipei, Taiwan

Yamagata Design

Project Management
Property Development
Property Management
$7M30 Jun 2020 Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

$30M05 Dec 2019 Houston, Texas, United States

KKday

E-Commerce
Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$10M30 Aug 2019 New Taipei

Winc

E-Commerce
Hospitality
Wine And Spirits
$10M23 Jul 2019 Los Angeles, California, United States

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