KDDI

Total investments

84

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

2.10

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

17

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileAppsMobile AppsRoboticsVirtual RealityVideo

Summary

KDDI appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1984. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this KDDI performs on 1 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are News, Apps. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GREE, August Home, Jibo. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the KDDI, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, JAFCO Japan, Ventech China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are JAFCO Japan, Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Credit Saison, SBI Investment, Pegasus Tech Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
84
Lead investments
18
Exits
17
Rounds per year
2.10
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (14)
  • Internet (14)
  • Software (13)
  • Apps (10)
  • Information Technology (10)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (59)
  • Taiwan (2)
  • United States (16)
  • South Korea (3)
  • Germany (1)
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Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.02
Strategy success index
0.20

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