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Dentsu Ventures

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 35
Rounds per year 4.78
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 9
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Virtual Reality
  • Gaming
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
Summary

Dentsu Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan. Dentsu Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Dentsu Ventures the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. This Dentsu Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Dentsu Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars Ventures, Rakuten, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Goldman Sachs, SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trifecta Capital Advisors, CRV, BRC Innovation.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Victorious, Survios, Cue. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Virtual Reality. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SUSHI TOP MARKETING

Consulting
Information Technology
Marketing
26 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Utaite

$2M17 May 2024 Setagaya, Japan

Inworld AI

Artificial Intelligence
Gaming
Machine Learning
Virtual Reality
Virtual World
$56M02 Aug 2023 -

Poko Technologies

Consulting
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Information Technology
$4M15 Jun 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Techtouch

Internet
IT Management
Software
$16M11 Jan 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Roforco

Gaming
Video Games
$1M15 Sep 2022 -

Mysten Labs

Infrastructure
$300M08 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

12traits

Information Technology
Machine Learning
Psychology
$21M18 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

KAUCHE

Content
E-Commerce
Local
Service Industry
Shopping
Social Shopping
$20M28 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 43
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 4.78
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SUSHI TOP MARKETING

Consulting
Information Technology
Marketing
26 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Utaite

$2M17 May 2024 Setagaya, Japan

Inworld AI

Artificial Intelligence
Gaming
Machine Learning
Virtual Reality
Virtual World
$56M02 Aug 2023 -

Poko Technologies

Consulting
Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Information Technology
$4M15 Jun 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Techtouch

Internet
IT Management
Software
$16M11 Jan 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Roforco

Gaming
Video Games
$1M15 Sep 2022 -

Mysten Labs

Infrastructure
$300M08 Sep 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

12traits

Information Technology
Machine Learning
Psychology
$21M18 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

KAUCHE

Content
E-Commerce
Local
Service Industry
Shopping
Social Shopping
$20M28 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan
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