Credit Saison

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

41

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

0.56

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobilePaymentsFinanceMobile PaymentsLendingConsumer Lending

Summary

Credit Saison is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1951. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Crowdsourcing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ShopBack, Origami, Coiney

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Credit Saison, startups are often financed by GREE Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, GMO VenturePartners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GMO VenturePartners, Saison Ventures, YJ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SBI Investment, YJ Capital, Mizuho Capital.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
5
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.56
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (21)
  • FinTech (11)
  • Payments (10)
  • Finance (8)
  • Mobile (5)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (7)
  • Japan (23)
  • Indonesia (3)
  • India (4)
  • China (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
85M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
10
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

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Japan Culture and Technology 13 Jun 2024 Early Stage Venture Tokyo, Kantō, Japan
Origami Japan 21 Sep 2018 Financial Services, Mobile, Payments Late Stage Venture 60M Chiyoda, Japan
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