IT-Farm

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

103

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

70

Rounds per year

4.12

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareAppsMedicalAdvertising

Summary

IT Farm appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zoom Communications, ContextLogic (dba. Wish), TangoMe. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Biotechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the IT Farm, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Social Capital, AME Cloud Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, OurCrowd, Vertical Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by AME Cloud Ventures, Bill Tai, Qualcomm Ventures.

This IT Farm works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018. When the investment is from IT Farm the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
103
Lead investments
6
Exits
17
Rounds per year
4.12
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (34)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
  • Machine Learning (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (61)
  • Germany (10)
  • Japan (14)
  • India (4)
  • Israel (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
304M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
13.22
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ALT TEX 01 Oct 2022 Textiles Seed Ontario, Brampton, Canada
Drivezy 07 Nov 2016 E-Commerce, Transportation, Car Sharing, Rental, Communities, Marketplace, Travel, Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption Seed 3M Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

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