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INSPiRE Corporation

Founders Makoto Naruke

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.43
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
http://www.inspirecorp.co.jp/
Chiyoda, Japan
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Machine Learning
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Security
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The current fund was established by Makoto Naruke.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2011. The common things for fund are deals in the range of less than 50 thousands dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Big Data, Wireless. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ABEJA

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the INSPiRE Corporation, startups are often financed by Keisuke Tomimatsu, Kakaku.com, DG Incubation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SAKURA Internet, Neostella capital, NTT DOCOMO Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Archetype Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SMBC Trust Bank.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

nami

Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$10M23 Mar 2023
Verizon Ventures
AMAVI Capital
INSPiRE Corporation
Aconterra
 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pocket Marche

Agriculture
AgTech
$5M24 Aug 2020
MAKOTO Capital
The Orangepage
SETOUCHI DMO
MARUI GROUP
Kobashi Industires
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABEJA

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
11 Jul 2014
NTT DOCOMO Ventures
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
Archetype Ventures
Mizuho Capital
SAKURA Internet
INSPiRE Corporation
ITOCHU Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABEJA

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
25 Sep 2013
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

giftee

E-Commerce
Gift
Social Network
$18K27 Apr 2011
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

Cerevo

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile
Photo Sharing
Software
Wireless
$22K18 Feb 2011
Neostella capital
INSPiRE Corporation
Enova International
 Chiyoda, Japan
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Total investments 10
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.43
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

nami

Energy Efficiency
Hardware
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$10M23 Mar 2023
Verizon Ventures
AMAVI Capital
INSPiRE Corporation
Aconterra
 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Pocket Marche

Agriculture
AgTech
$5M24 Aug 2020
MAKOTO Capital
The Orangepage
SETOUCHI DMO
MARUI GROUP
Kobashi Industires
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABEJA

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
11 Jul 2014
NTT DOCOMO Ventures
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
Archetype Ventures
Mizuho Capital
SAKURA Internet
INSPiRE Corporation
ITOCHU Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABEJA

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
25 Sep 2013
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

giftee

E-Commerce
Gift
Social Network
$18K27 Apr 2011
INSPiRE Corporation
 Chiyoda, Japan

Cerevo

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile
Photo Sharing
Software
Wireless
$22K18 Feb 2011
Neostella capital
INSPiRE Corporation
Enova International
 Chiyoda, Japan
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