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DG Incubation

Founders Kaoru Hayashi Yasuhiro Mimura

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$45M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 1
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Content
  • Virtual Reality
  • B2B
Summary

In 1995 was created DG Incubation, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. DG Incubation appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo.

The current fund was established by Kaoru Hayashi, Yasuhiro Mimura. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from DG Incubation the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This DG Incubation works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intercom, SmartHR, WHILL. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Internet. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the DG Incubation, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, ZenShin Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Digital Garage, YJ Capital, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Draper Nexus Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spiker

Artificial Intelligence
Medical Device
$755K20 Jul 2023 Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

AI Communis

$1M14 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

matsuri technologies

Hospitality
Marketing
Real Estate
$18M24 Mar 2022 Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Luup Japan

Cloud Computing
Ediscovery
Internet
$11M17 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$910K30 Mar 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Zenport Inc.

Software
$45K18 Dec 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 31
Average round size 45M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.06

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spiker

Artificial Intelligence
Medical Device
$755K20 Jul 2023 Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

AI Communis

$1M14 Nov 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

matsuri technologies

Hospitality
Marketing
Real Estate
$18M24 Mar 2022 Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Luup Japan

Cloud Computing
Ediscovery
Internet
$11M17 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$910K30 Mar 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Zenport Inc.

Software
$45K18 Dec 2015 Chiyoda, Japan
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