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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 13
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Education
  • FinTech
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • E-Learning
Summary

The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Shibuya.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Genuine Startups, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, NEC Capital Solutions, Shinji Kimura. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are East Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, NEC Capital Solutions. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eric Di Benedetto, D4V - Design for Ventures, Archetype Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Translimit, Alpaca, Alpaca Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpaca

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$1M24 Jan 2017 California, United States

HOMMA

Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Electronics
Home Services
Information Technology
Interior Design
Property Development
Real Estate
Smart Home
Software
UX Design
$4M24 Oct 2016 Hayward, California, United States

WhatzMoney

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
Media and Entertainment
$409K26 Apr 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

WhatzMoney

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
Media and Entertainment
$6M01 Mar 2016 Japan, Chiyoda

BASKET

Home Services
Internet
Service Industry
30 Apr 2015 Minato, Japan

Translimit

Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$45M10 Oct 2014 Japan, Chiyoda

Beatrobo

Content
Music
Video
$1M20 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

AlpacaJapan

Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$45K19 Feb 2014 Chiyoda

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Transportation
$154K12 Oct 2013 Chiyoda

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Total investments 16
Average round size 4M
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpaca

Developer APIs
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$1M24 Jan 2017 California, United States

HOMMA

Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Electronics
Home Services
Information Technology
Interior Design
Property Development
Real Estate
Smart Home
Software
UX Design
$4M24 Oct 2016 Hayward, California, United States

WhatzMoney

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
Media and Entertainment
$409K26 Apr 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

WhatzMoney

Asset Management
Finance
Financial Services
Media and Entertainment
$6M01 Mar 2016 Japan, Chiyoda

BASKET

Home Services
Internet
Service Industry
30 Apr 2015 Minato, Japan

Translimit

Computer
Enterprise Software
Software
$45M10 Oct 2014 Japan, Chiyoda

Beatrobo

Content
Music
Video
$1M20 Apr 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

AlpacaJapan

Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$45K19 Feb 2014 Chiyoda

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Transportation
$154K12 Oct 2013 Chiyoda
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