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IT Farm

Founders Morio Kurosaki

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Total investments 100
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 70
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 17
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ac-Planta

Agriculture
Chemical
Manufacturing
$4M15 Mar 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$17M11 Dec 2023 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Mithril Security

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
$1M25 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$10M01 Sep 2022 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Genecis

Biotechnology
CleanTech
Waste Management
$7M05 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TopoLogic

01 Apr 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Honeycomb Insurance

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
$15M19 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Cogsmart

Health Care
Medical
Professional Services
$3M06 Jan 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 100
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ac-Planta

Agriculture
Chemical
Manufacturing
$4M15 Mar 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$17M11 Dec 2023 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Mithril Security

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
$1M25 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

German Bionic

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Open Source
Robotics
Wearables
$10M01 Sep 2022 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Genecis

Biotechnology
CleanTech
Waste Management
$7M05 Aug 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TopoLogic

01 Apr 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Kintsugi

Apps
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
Personal Health
Software
$20M28 Feb 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Honeycomb Insurance

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
$15M19 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Cogsmart

Health Care
Medical
Professional Services
$3M06 Jan 2022 Chiyoda, Japan
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