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JAFCO Japan

Founders Tsuyoshi Ito

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Total investments 334
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 235
Rounds per year 6.55
Lead investments 68
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 71
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pocket Sign

$3M21 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

newmo

$13M16 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Cloudbase

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$10M07 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

FactBase

B2B
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$8M05 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$30M16 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Micoworks

Business Development
Management Consulting
$31M27 Dec 2023 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Nexta

Manufacturing
$3M26 Dec 2023 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

FastLabel

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$10M29 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Srush

Information Services
Sales
Software
$3M22 Nov 2023 Shinagawa, Japan

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Total investments 334
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 6.55
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 68
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 71
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pocket Sign

$3M21 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

newmo

$13M16 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Cloudbase

Cloud Computing
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Software
$10M07 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

FactBase

B2B
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$8M05 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$30M16 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Micoworks

Business Development
Management Consulting
$31M27 Dec 2023 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Nexta

Manufacturing
$3M26 Dec 2023 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

FastLabel

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$10M29 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Srush

Information Services
Sales
Software
$3M22 Nov 2023 Shinagawa, Japan
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