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Japan Post Capital

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Total investments 59
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 8.43
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Marketing
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ascenders

Business Development
$2M20 Sep 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Delivers AI

03 Jun 2024 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

WAmazing

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Internet
Tourism
$12M08 Dec 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

ecommit

Environmental Consulting
Management Consulting
Recycling
$8M13 Oct 2023 Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Baseconnect Japan

Content
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Task Management
$49M06 Feb 2023 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

MOON-X

Craft Beer
Manufacturing
28 Jul 2022 -

Molcure

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M18 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

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Financial Services
Funding Platform
$18M27 Apr 2021 Chuo, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 59
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 8.43
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ascenders

Business Development
$2M20 Sep 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Delivers AI

03 Jun 2024 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

WAmazing

Apps
Internet
Tourism
$12M08 Dec 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

ecommit

Environmental Consulting
Management Consulting
Recycling
$8M13 Oct 2023 Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Baseconnect Japan

Content
Database
Task Management
$49M06 Feb 2023 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

MOON-X

Craft Beer
Manufacturing
28 Jul 2022 -

Molcure

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M18 Aug 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Funds

Financial Services
Funding Platform
$18M27 Apr 2021 Chuo, Japan

CLUE, Inc.

Aerospace
Drones
Enterprise Software
Real Estate
Robotics
Software
$18M21 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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