Hikari Tsushin Group

Total investments

42

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

1.20

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareB2BMobileEnterprise SoftwareContentTelecommunicationsBusiness DevelopmentOnline Auctions

Summary

In 1988 was created Hikari Tsushin Group, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Wireless. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PayPal, WebEx, beenz.com.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Hikari Tsushin Group, startups are often financed by Idealab, InveStar Capital, Vanguard Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oracle, Idealab, Dain Rauscher Wessels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Technology Link Capital, Prism Venture Management, FA Technology Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2000. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Hikari Tsushin Group works on 22 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
5
Exits
19
Rounds per year
1.20
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Internet (17)
  • E-Commerce (16)
  • Software (9)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Telecommunications (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (32)
  • China (4)
  • Japan (3)
  • France (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
7.58
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

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