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Hike Ventures

Founders Mikihiro Yasuda Takahiro Shoji

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 7.20
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
  • Big Data
Summary

In 2018 was created Hike Ventures, which is appeared as VC.

The current fund was established by Mikihiro Yasuda, Takahiro Shoji. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Real Time, Medical Device. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cognition IP, Optina Diagnostics

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Hike Ventures, startups are often financed by Creative Destruction Lab, Cherubic Ventures, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Panache Ventures, Y Combinator, UP2398. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UP2398, Real Ventures, Precursor Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NExTNet

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$1M31 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

BurnBot

Environmental Engineering
Service Industry
$5M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

CalmWave

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
$4M15 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

MLtwist

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
01 Nov 2021 -

Optina Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Medical Device
$19M28 Oct 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Botpress

Computer
Software
$15M28 Apr 2021 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Biotechnology
Life Science
Nanotechnology
Robotics
Semiconductor
$4M23 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

YPC Technologies

Food and Beverage
$1M20 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Waverly

Content Discovery
Search Engine
Semantic Search
Social Media
$1M09 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Total investments 36
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 7.20
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.28
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NExTNet

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$1M31 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

BurnBot

Environmental Engineering
Service Industry
$5M12 Dec 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

CalmWave

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
$4M15 Nov 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

MLtwist

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
01 Nov 2021 -

Optina Diagnostics

Biotechnology
Medical Device
$19M28 Oct 2021 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Botpress

Computer
Software
$15M28 Apr 2021 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Biotechnology
Life Science
Nanotechnology
Robotics
Semiconductor
$4M23 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

YPC Technologies

Food and Beverage
$1M20 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Waverly

Content Discovery
Search Engine
Semantic Search
Social Media
$1M09 Oct 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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