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Drone Fund

Founders Soki Enzo Ohmae

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Total investments 65
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 9.29
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Drones
  • Robotics
  • Software
  • Aerospace
  • Information Technology
Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Drone Fund, startups are often financed by ACE Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ITOCHU Technology Ventures, aucfan Co.,Ltd., Sumitomo Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by aucfan Co.,Ltd., VentureTECH, Kejora Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Malaysia. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Agriculture, Geospatial. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sensyn Robotics, Aerodyne Group.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
15 Oct 2024 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

LOMBY

Delivery Service
Logistics
Robotics
01 Oct 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Triorb

Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
30 Sep 2024 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

CuboRex

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Robotics
$2M22 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Triorb

Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
$3M28 Dec 2023 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
$1M07 Aug 2023 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

AGRIST

Agriculture
Robotics
07 Oct 2022 Japan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
16 Apr 2021 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 65
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 9.29
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.63

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
15 Oct 2024 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

LOMBY

Delivery Service
Logistics
Robotics
01 Oct 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Triorb

Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
30 Sep 2024 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

CuboRex

Consumer Electronics
Manufacturing
Robotics
$2M22 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Triorb

Hardware
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
$3M28 Dec 2023 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
$1M07 Aug 2023 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

AGRIST

Agriculture
Robotics
07 Oct 2022 Japan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Eight Knot

Artificial Intelligence
Navigation
Robotics
16 Apr 2021 Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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