Dream Incubator

Total investments

99

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

73

Rounds per year

4.30

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

20

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareAppsSocial MediaMedia and Entertainment

Summary

In 2000 was created Dream Incubator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Dream Incubator, startups are often financed by Chiratae Ventures, Blume Ventures, IDG Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Chiratae Ventures, Blume Ventures, NB Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures.

The current fund was established by Koichi Hori. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from Dream Incubator the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Dream Incubator performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MediciNova, Rizort, IDfy. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
99
Lead investments
11
Exits
20
Rounds per year
4.30
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Internet (14)
  • Media and Entertainment (14)
  • E-Commerce (12)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Software (10)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (53)
  • India (28)
  • United States (11)
  • Singapore (5)
  • South Korea (1)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
25M
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bitnomial 01 Jan 2016 Financial Services, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Exchanges Seed United States, Illinois, Chicago
CLUE, Inc. 15 Nov 2017 Real Estate, Software, Enterprise Software, Robotics, Aerospace, Drones Early Stage Venture 3M Chiyoda, Japan
Winuall 23 Aug 2022 Mobile, EdTech, Education Early Stage Venture 2M Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
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