Development Bank of Japan
35
279M
29
0.48
3
0.17
4
- Areas of investment
Summary
The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mercari, Raksul, ispace technologies. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Space Travel, Management Consulting.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Development Bank of Japan, startups are often financed by Globis Capital Partners, Global Brain Corporation, GMO VenturePartners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Global Brain Corporation, World Innovation Lab (WiL), UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yamaha Motor Co.,, UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Mizuho Capital.
Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Development Bank of Japan the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Development Bank of Japan performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.
We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 35
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 0.48
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Renewable Energy (6)
- Information Technology (6)
- Manufacturing (4)
- Energy (4)
- Financial Services (4) Show 52 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (23)
- United States (4)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Singapore (3)
- Tanzania (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 702M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.86
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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