Japan Asia Investment

Total investments

68

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

53

Rounds per year

1.66

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

17

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMarketingTask ManagementBiopharma

Summary

Japan Asia Investment is the famous VC, which was founded in 1981. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

This Japan Asia Investment works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Japan Asia Investment, startups are often financed by Yasuda Enterprise Development, NIF SMBC Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Yasuda Enterprise Development, SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yasuda Enterprise Development, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Signal Lake.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Health Care. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Palo Alto Networks, InPhase Technologies, Sosei Group The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
68
Lead investments
8
Exits
17
Rounds per year
1.66
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (14)
  • Software (9)
  • Internet (9)
  • Health Diagnostics (9)
  • Biopharma (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Japan (44)
  • China (6)
  • Israel (1)
  • Romania (1)
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Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
35M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
6.63
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

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Blueprint AI 27 Dec 2022 Seed
Comparison Creator 23 Oct 2012 Software, Enterprise Software, Developer Platform, Web Browsers Early Stage Venture Monmouthshire, Cwmbran, United Kingdom
Silicon Wave 27 Jan 2000 Electronics, Telecommunications, Wireless Late Stage Venture 35M United States, California, San Diego
Triage Medical 20 Aug 2003 Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 10M United States, California, Irvine

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