Total investments

50

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

2.50

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

12

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileGamingContentMusicVideoDigital EntertainmentMedia and Entertainment

Summary

In 2004 was created GREE, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Machine Learning. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BizReach, migme, Sliver.tv. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from GREE the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This GREE works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

This organization was formed by Kotaro Yamagishi, Yoshikazu Tanaka. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the GREE, startups are often financed by East Ventures, TLM, Yusuke Sato. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Venture Reality Fund, Colopl Next, Globis Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, Mizuho Capital, Globis Capital Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
50
Lead investments
6
Exits
12
Rounds per year
2.50
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (16)
  • Gaming (11)
  • Internet (10)
  • Software (7)
  • Media and Entertainment (7)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (34)
  • United States (11)
  • Singapore (1)
  • China (2)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

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