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Incubate Fund

Founders Kazuki Notsu

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Total investments 339
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 214
Rounds per year 24.21
Lead investments 61
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 35
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blossom Energy

$3M28 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

M-INT

$819K22 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

newmo

$13M16 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Artreoss

Dating
LGBT
Mobile Apps
Social Media
07 Feb 2024 Koto, Japan

BuyEazzy

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$4M18 Jan 2024 Delhi, Delhi, India

Fager

Agriculture
Enterprise
Sales
$3M06 Dec 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

MyShell

$5M16 Oct 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pale Blue

Aerospace
Consulting
Rental
$9M05 Oct 2023 Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Bondy

Human Resources
Technical Support
$740K27 Sep 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
News
Plum Raises $15.6M in Series A Funding

– Plum, a Bengaluru, India-based group health insurance startup, raised $15.6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, Tanglin Venture Partners, Incubate Fund and Gemba Capital, as well as Kunal Shah (founder, Cred), Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh (founders of Unacademy), Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain and Ishan Bansal (founders of Groww), Ramakant Sharma & Anuj Srivastava (founders of Livspace), and Douglas Feirstein (founder of Hired).
– The company intends to use the funds to further scale engineering, business development and operations teams.

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Total investments 339
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 24.21
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 61
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 35
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blossom Energy

$3M28 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

M-INT

$819K22 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

newmo

$13M16 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Artreoss

Dating
LGBT
Mobile Apps
Social Media
07 Feb 2024 Koto, Japan

BuyEazzy

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$4M18 Jan 2024 Delhi, Delhi, India

Fager

Agriculture
Enterprise
Sales
$3M06 Dec 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

MyShell

$5M16 Oct 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pale Blue

Aerospace
Consulting
Rental
$9M05 Oct 2023 Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Bondy

Human Resources
Technical Support
$740K27 Sep 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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