KDDI Open Innovation Fund

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. KDDI Open Innovation Fund seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Free Now, Aoi.co, Plumzi. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Transportation, Mobile. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get 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 common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this KDDI Open Innovation Fund performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the KDDI Open Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Global Brain Corporation, Wellington Partners, Kotaro Chiba. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Global Brain Corporation, KDDI, SBI Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Brain Corporation, Z-kai, Simon Property Group.