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Total investments 149
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 98
Rounds per year 7.84
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 23
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mundi

Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$15M25 Sep 2023 Mexico, Guerrero, Mexico

Bureau

Information Technology
Software
$4M18 Jul 2023 Bangalore City, Karnataka, India

Niro

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M26 Apr 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$1M01 Mar 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

SJ Mobile Labs

Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Mobile Payments
$4M07 Feb 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Gullak.Money

FinTech
$3M18 Jan 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Flik

Brand Marketing
Direct Marketing
$1M09 Jan 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Habitto

Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Mobile Payments
$3M10 Oct 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Carats and Cake

Event Management
Hospitality
Wedding
$10M23 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 149
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 7.84
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mundi

Financial Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
$15M25 Sep 2023 Mexico, Guerrero, Mexico

Bureau

Information Technology
Software
$4M18 Jul 2023 Bangalore City, Karnataka, India

Niro

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M26 Apr 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$1M01 Mar 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

SJ Mobile Labs

Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Mobile Payments
$4M07 Feb 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Gullak.Money

FinTech
$3M18 Jan 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Flik

Brand Marketing
Direct Marketing
$1M09 Jan 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Habitto

Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Mobile Payments
$3M10 Oct 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Carats and Cake

Event Management
Hospitality
Wedding
$10M23 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States
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