Japan Post Capital

Total investments

56

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

8.00

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMarketingAdvertisingMedia and Entertainment

Summary

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Japan Post Capital, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, Globis Capital Partners, GREE. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBI Investment, SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Japan Post Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sansan, WealthPark, Edgematrix. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Insurance, Media and Entertainment. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
56
Lead investments
8
Exits
7
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Internet (7)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Marketing (6)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (52)
  • United States (1)
  • Singapore (1)
  • Turkey (1)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
77M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
24
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AI Medical Service 04 Oct 2019 Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 41M Toshima, Japan
Delivers AI 03 Jun 2024 Seed Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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