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Dentsu Digital Holdings

Founders Nishimura Tsutomu

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 1.41
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Consulting
  • Information Technology
Summary

Dentsu Digital Holdings is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2000. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BizReach, Raksul, Arcterus. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Photo Sharing, Financial Services.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Dentsu Digital Holdings performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Dentsu Digital Holdings, startups are often financed by CyberAgent Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Global Brain Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ITOCHU Technology Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, Link and Motivation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Brain Corporation, Z-kai, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coiney

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
$122M06 Feb 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Viibar

Video
$3M22 Jan 2017 Japan, Chiyoda

Kyash

Banking
Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$9M14 Dec 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

BizReach

Employment
Human Resources
Internet
$37M29 Mar 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

xica Co.,Ltd.

Collectibles
Consulting
Information Technology
$1M23 Mar 2016 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Toreta

Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$2M29 Feb 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Money Design

Financial Services
Real Estate
$13M03 Dec 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

from scratch

Business Development
Digital Marketing
Marketing
$9M30 Nov 2015 Japan, Chiyoda

Kabuku Inc.

3D Printing
Cloud Computing
Consulting
E-Commerce
$6M25 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 31
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 1.41
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Coiney

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
$122M06 Feb 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

Viibar

Video
$3M22 Jan 2017 Japan, Chiyoda

Kyash

Banking
Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$9M14 Dec 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

BizReach

Employment
Human Resources
Internet
$37M29 Mar 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

xica Co.,Ltd.

Collectibles
Consulting
Information Technology
$1M23 Mar 2016 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Toreta

Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$2M29 Feb 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Money Design

Financial Services
Real Estate
$13M03 Dec 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

from scratch

Business Development
Digital Marketing
Marketing
$9M30 Nov 2015 Japan, Chiyoda

Kabuku Inc.

3D Printing
Cloud Computing
Consulting
E-Commerce
$6M25 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan
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