GMO VenturePartners

Total investments

152

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

100

Rounds per year

8.00

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

23

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BPaymentsFinanceAdvertising

Summary

In 2005 was created GMO VenturePartners, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has no specific favorite 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Mercari, Qihoo 360 Technology, Kredivo

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. When the investment is from GMO VenturePartners the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this GMO VenturePartners works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the GMO VenturePartners, startups are often financed by GREE Ventures, Y Combinator, CyberAgent Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GREE Ventures, Y Combinator, SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eight Roads Ventures, MDI Ventures, Jungle Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
152
Lead investments
11
Exits
23
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (30)
  • FinTech (27)
  • Information Technology (25)
  • E-Commerce (24)
  • Software (20)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (92)
  • India (15)
  • United States (19)
  • Singapore (13)
  • Indonesia (7)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
274M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
7
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Flik 09 Jan 2023 Brand Marketing, Direct Marketing Seed 1M Jakarta Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia
Niro 10 May 2024 Financial Services, FinTech Early Stage Venture 4M Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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