JAFCO Japan
Venture Capital
Active
Tokyo, Japan
339
14M
236
6.65
69
0.30
71
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
JAFCO Japan is the famous VC, which was founded in 1973. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This JAFCO Japan works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight RedSeal, Aperto Networks, PepperTap. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Information Technology.
The current fund was established by Tsuyoshi Ito.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the JAFCO Japan, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Incubate Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, GMO VenturePartners, YJ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SBI Investment, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- From 200K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 339
- Lead investments
- 69
- Exits
- 71
- Rounds per year
- 6.65
- Follow on index
- 0.30
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (57)
- Software (51)
- Internet (35)
- Biotechnology (32)
- Health Care (27) Show 219 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (299)
- United States (24)
- Taiwan (1)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Switzerland (1) Show 4 more
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 19M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.70
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.33
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aracan | 17 Nov 2023 | Logistics, Retail, Delivery, Autonomous Vehicles | Early Stage Venture | Chūbu, Nagoya, Japan | |
| Atlast health | 13 Jun 2024 | Early Stage Venture | Tokyo, Kantō, Japan |
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