Innovation Engine
34
8M
30
1.48
2
0.12
4
- Areas of investment
Summary
Innovation Engine appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Innovation Engine is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hacarus, PicoCELA Inc.. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Innovation Engine, startups are often financed by Future Venture Capital, Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative, Senshu Ikeda Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Kaga Electronics, SMBC Venture Capital.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 34
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 1.48
- Follow on index
- 0.12
- Investments by industry
- Software (7)
- Education (5)
- Information Technology (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Medical (3) Show 63 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (34)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 29M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.85
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranimaru | 10 Jun 2024 | Early Stage Venture | 2M | Kantō, Shibuya, Japan | |
| toridori | 03 Aug 2020 | Business Intelligence, Marketing, Advertising, Business Development | Early Stage Venture | 4M | Chiyoda, Japan |
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