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Excite Japan Co., Ltd.

Founders Masaki Akiyoshi

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Total investments 4
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Consumer Goods
  • Fashion
  • Lifestyle
  • Shoes
Summary

In 1997 was created Excite Japan Co., Ltd., which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Minato.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Excite Japan Co., Ltd., startups are often financed by istyle Inc., Incubate Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are istyle Inc., TBS Innovation Partners, Lead Capital Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by istyle Inc., TBS Innovation Partners, Mirai Creation Fund.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2015. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this Excite Japan Co., Ltd. performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Video. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Open8, Locondo.jp For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Open8

Android
Video
$7M28 Oct 2015 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

LOCONDO

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Fashion
$6M13 Jun 2013 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 4
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 1
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Open8

Android
Video
$7M28 Oct 2015 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

LOCONDO

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Fashion
$6M13 Jun 2013 Chiyoda, Japan
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