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Japan Finance Corporation

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Total investments 202
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 173
Rounds per year 13.47
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 6
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

Japan Finance Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2008. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Machine Learning, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hacarus, Style Port, AlpacaJapan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Japan Finance Corporation, startups are often financed by ITOCHU Technology Ventures, YJ Capital, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mizuho Corporate Bank, SMBC Venture Capital, Nissay Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Incubate Fund, SMBC Venture Capital, Rohto Pharmaceutical.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hogetic Lab

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$455K23 Jun 2021 Japan

Eitoss

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Productivity Tools
Software
$546K25 May 2021 Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Magic Moment

Data Storage
Data Visualization
Software
$6M13 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Olive Union

Consumer Electronics
Health Care
Medical Device
mHealth
$7M05 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

LegalForce Japan

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Task Management
$27M17 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Nanameue

Finance
Financial Services
Property Management
$5M12 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Open8

Android
Video
$27M29 Jan 2021 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Civitas

$591K27 Jan 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

I'mbesideyou

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Technology
SaaS
$1M03 Jan 2021 Chiyoda, Japan
News
OriCiro Genomics Raises ¥800M in Series B Financing

– OriCiro Genomics is a Tokyo, Japan-based pioneer in cell-free synthesis and amplification of genome-scale large DNA for advanced therapy and synthetic biology.
– Series B ¥800m round led by The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) with participation of ITOCHU Technology Ventures.
– Also received a ¥200m long-term loan from Japan Finance Corporation (JFC), a government-affiliated financial institution, totaling ¥1b in this round of financing.

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Total investments 202
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 13.47
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hogetic Lab

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$455K23 Jun 2021 Japan

Eitoss

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Productivity Tools
Software
$546K25 May 2021 Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Magic Moment

Data Storage
Data Visualization
Software
$6M13 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Olive Union

Consumer Electronics
Health Care
Medical Device
mHealth
$7M05 Apr 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

LegalForce Japan

Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Task Management
$27M17 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Nanameue

Finance
Financial Services
Property Management
$5M12 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Open8

Android
Video
$27M29 Jan 2021 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Civitas

$591K27 Jan 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

I'mbesideyou

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Technology
SaaS
$1M03 Jan 2021 Chiyoda, Japan
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