Japan Science and Technology Agency
36
6M
27
1.71
1
0.22
- Areas of investment
Summary
The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Axelspace, REGiMMUNE Corporation. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Aerospace, National Security. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Japan Science and Technology Agency, startups are often financed by Yasuda Enterprise Development, NIF SMBC Ventures, Japan Asia Investment. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Beyond Next Ventures, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UTokyo Innovation Platform, SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 36
- Lead investments
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.71
- Follow on index
- 0.22
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (13)
- Manufacturing (9)
- Health Care (9)
- Medical (8)
- Medical Device (4) Show 39 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (36)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 26M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.83
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algal Bio | 29 Nov 2019 | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage | Early Stage Venture | 3M | Japan, Chiba Prefecture, Kashiwa |
| 01 Jan 2020 | Internet, Information Technology, Communities | Seed | United States, California, San Francisco | ||
| Kwely | 25 Apr 2022 | Retail, B2B | Seed | 700K | Senegal, Dakar, Dakar |
| MainBot | 04 Jun 2019 | Education, Robotics, Edutainment | Seed | 780K | Ile-de-France, France, France |
| Richmedia | 22 Dec 2011 | Social, Web Browsers, SEO | Seed | 172K | Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, Japan |
| ThinkCyte | 15 Jun 2018 | Biotechnology, Life Science, Therapeutics | Seed | 3M | Bunkyo, Japan |
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