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Innovation Engine

Founders Rob Haddad

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 1.43
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 4
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Education
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Asilla

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Video
$4M18 Jan 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Ispace Technologies

Manufacturing
Navigation
Robotics
Space Travel
Sustainability
$46M04 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

POWERNEXT

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Outsourcing
01 Jan 2021 Chiba, Chiba-shi, Japan

toridori

Advertising
Business Development
Business Intelligence
Marketing
$4M03 Aug 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$2M27 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Leading Mark

Education
Employment
Human Resources
Internet
Location Based Services
Recruiting
$1M19 Sep 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

tripla

Artificial Intelligence
Software
Travel
$5M11 Jun 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

UNCOVER TRUTH

Analytics
Information Technology
Software
$5M09 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

HACARUS

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Medical
Software
$2M05 Oct 2018 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

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Total investments 33
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.43
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Asilla

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Video
$4M18 Jan 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Ispace Technologies

Manufacturing
Navigation
Robotics
Space Travel
Sustainability
$46M04 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

POWERNEXT

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Outsourcing
01 Jan 2021 Chiba, Chiba-shi, Japan

toridori

Advertising
Business Development
Business Intelligence
Marketing
$4M03 Aug 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$2M27 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Leading Mark

Education
Employment
Human Resources
Internet
Location Based Services
Recruiting
$1M19 Sep 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

tripla

Artificial Intelligence
Software
Travel
$5M11 Jun 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

UNCOVER TRUTH

Analytics
Information Technology
Software
$5M09 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

HACARUS

Artificial Intelligence
Life Science
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Medical
Software
$2M05 Oct 2018 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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