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Japan Asia Investment

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 53
Rounds per year 1.66
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 17
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Biopharma
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Laxus Technologies

E-Commerce
Fashion
Rental
Vacation Rental
$12M25 Jan 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

FacePeer

Android
Software
Task Management
$728K20 Jan 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Aoi.co

Apps
EdTech
Education
Software
$2M25 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Megakaryon Corporation

Health Care
Medical
Product Research
$22M23 Mar 2015 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Access Bright Japan

Animation
Gamification
Online Games
Software
Video Games
$546K22 Sep 2014 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

Access Bright Japan

Animation
Gamification
Online Games
Software
Video Games
08 Mar 2013 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$5M01 Feb 2012 Japan, Chiyoda

TMS

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$330K01 Nov 2011 Japan, Fuchu

Richmedia

SEO
Social
Web Browsers
$536K26 Sep 2011 Japan, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

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Total investments 68
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.66
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Laxus Technologies

E-Commerce
Fashion
Rental
Vacation Rental
$12M25 Jan 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

FacePeer

Android
Software
Task Management
$728K20 Jan 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Aoi.co

Apps
EdTech
Education
Software
$2M25 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Megakaryon Corporation

Health Care
Medical
Product Research
$22M23 Mar 2015 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Access Bright Japan

Animation
Gamification
Online Games
Software
Video Games
$546K22 Sep 2014 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

Access Bright Japan

Animation
Gamification
Online Games
Software
Video Games
08 Mar 2013 Japan, Chiba Prefecture

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$5M01 Feb 2012 Japan, Chiyoda

TMS

Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$330K01 Nov 2011 Japan, Fuchu

Richmedia

SEO
Social
Web Browsers
$536K26 Sep 2011 Japan, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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