istyle Inc.

Total investments

15

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.65

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Post-Ipo
Areas of investment
E-CommerceBeautyCosmeticsInformation TechnologyAppsFashionVideoMedia and EntertainmentTask ManagementCRM

Summary

istyle Inc. is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1999. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The current fund was established by Meyumi Yamada, Tetsuro yoshimatsu.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Beauty, Restaurants. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sociolla, C Channel, Toreta. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the istyle Inc., startups are often financed by Dream Incubator, East Ventures, World Innovation Lab (WiL). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Excite Japan Co., Ltd., TBS Innovation Partners, Salesforce Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EV Growth, iSGS Investment Works, World Innovation Lab (WiL).

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
1
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.65
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Beauty (6)
  • Media and Entertainment (3)
  • Fashion (3)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Cosmetics (2)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (14)
  • Indonesia (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Group Appearance index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
C Channel 10 Apr 2015 Fashion, Video, Media and Entertainment Seed 4M Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Japan
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