ITOCHU Technology Ventures

Total investments

161

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

123

Rounds per year

6.71

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

43

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareAppsManufacturingMedical

Summary

ITOCHU Technology Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Retail, SaaS. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Mercari, Box, Rescale Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the ITOCHU Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by CyberAgent Capital, GREE Ventures, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, YJ Capital, GREE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Brain Corporation, Eight Roads Ventures, World Innovation Lab (WiL).

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The average startup value when the investment from ITOCHU Technology Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this ITOCHU Technology Ventures performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
161
Lead investments
17
Exits
43
Rounds per year
6.71
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (26)
  • Software (24)
  • Internet (20)
  • E-Commerce (20)
  • Health Care (13)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (119)
  • United States (36)
  • Belgium (1)
  • Romania (1)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
67M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.90
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aeterlink,Corp 09 May 2024 Early Stage Venture 19M
NABLA Mobility 16 Dec 2022 Early Stage Venture Chiyoda, Japan

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