Drone Fund

Total investments

60

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

8.57

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsAerospaceManufacturingDronesElectronicsAgriculture

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
10
Exits
3
Rounds per year
8.57
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Drones (36)
  • Robotics (13)
  • Aerospace (10)
  • Software (10)
  • Information Technology (8)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (49)
  • United States (2)
  • Canada (2)
  • Brazil (1)
  • Malaysia (1)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
2

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
do japan 28 Nov 2017 Information Technology Seed 455K Chiyoda, Japan
Triorb 28 Dec 2023 Software, Robotics, Manufacturing, Hardware Early Stage Venture 3M Fukuoka Prefecture, Kitakyushu, Japan

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