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Hikari Tsushin Group

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 37
Rounds per year 1.20
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 19
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Telecommunications
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

56.com

Content
E-Commerce
Social/Platform Software
Video
$20M01 Dec 2007 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China

Pulse Entertainment

3D Technology
Animation
Messaging
$5M22 Mar 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

New.net

Internet
$1M09 Sep 2003 Pasadena, California, United States

New.net

Internet
28 Feb 2001 Pasadena, California, United States

MeetChina.com

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Marketing
$30M03 Aug 2000 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

AtNetwork

Content
Content Delivery Network
Delivery
Infrastructure
Internet
$33M25 Jul 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Kinzan.com

Content
E-Commerce
Internet
$17M29 Jun 2000 Carlsbad, California, United States

WR Hambrecht

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$83M07 Jun 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Softricity

Enterprise Software
Management Information Systems
Software
Virtualization
$22M06 Jun 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 42
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 1.20
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

56.com

Content
E-Commerce
Social/Platform Software
Video
$20M01 Dec 2007 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China

Pulse Entertainment

3D Technology
Animation
Messaging
$5M22 Mar 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

New.net

Internet
$1M09 Sep 2003 Pasadena, California, United States

New.net

Internet
28 Feb 2001 Pasadena, California, United States

MeetChina.com

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Marketing
$30M03 Aug 2000 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

AtNetwork

Content
Content Delivery Network
Delivery
Infrastructure
Internet
$33M25 Jul 2000 San Jose, California, United States

Kinzan.com

Content
E-Commerce
Internet
$17M29 Jun 2000 Carlsbad, California, United States

WR Hambrecht

Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
$83M07 Jun 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Softricity

Enterprise Software
Management Information Systems
Software
Virtualization
$22M06 Jun 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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