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GREE

Founders Kotaro Yamagishi Naohito Shimomura Umeya Tomoki Yoshikazu Tanaka

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 2.50
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 12
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Gaming
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Media 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yield Guild Games Japan

$3M30 Jan 2023 Roppongi, Kantō, Japan

AppBrew(Lips)

Consumer Reviews
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Software
$9M18 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Jido Maps

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Developer APIs
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
$2M20 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Facemoji

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Digital Entertainment
eSports
$1M01 Apr 2018 New York, New York, United States

FOWD

Digital Entertainment
EBooks
Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
$880K31 Mar 2018 Chiyoda

AppBrew(Lips)

Consumer Reviews
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Software
$5M28 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

One Media

Digital Media
$3M11 Jan 2018 Japan, Hokkaido Prefecture

Advertising
Service Industry
$22M12 Dec 2017 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$3M06 Nov 2017 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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Total investments 50
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 2.50
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Yield Guild Games Japan

$3M30 Jan 2023 Roppongi, Kantō, Japan

AppBrew(Lips)

Consumer Reviews
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Software
$9M18 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Jido Maps

Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
Developer APIs
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
$2M20 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Facemoji

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Digital Entertainment
eSports
$1M01 Apr 2018 New York, New York, United States

FOWD

Digital Entertainment
EBooks
Gaming
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Music
Social Media
$880K31 Mar 2018 Chiyoda

AppBrew(Lips)

Consumer Reviews
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Software
$5M28 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

One Media

Digital Media
$3M11 Jan 2018 Japan, Hokkaido Prefecture

Advertising
Service Industry
$22M12 Dec 2017 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

Jiraffe

Online Portals
Service Industry
Web Browsers
$3M06 Nov 2017 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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