Incubate Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

352

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

221

Rounds per year

25.14

Lead investments

62

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

35

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyRecruitingGamingArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareApps

Summary

Incubate Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Incubate Fund, startups are often financed by YJ Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Samurai Incubate. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YJ Capital, ANRI, Mizuho Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YJ Capital, Nissay Capital, Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd..

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Incubate Fund performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Incubate Fund the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AI Medical Service, Wealthnavi, Origami. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Software.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
352
Lead investments
62
Exits
35
Rounds per year
25.14
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (51)
  • Information Technology (38)
  • Internet (37)
  • E-Commerce (34)
  • Health Care (26)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (294)
  • United States (20)
  • India (18)
  • Israel (2)
  • United Kingdom (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.04
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Connect Afya 01 Jan 2021 Health Care, Medical Seed Hyogo Prefecture, Tatsuno, Japan
M-INT 22 Feb 2024 Seed 819K Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

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