Line Corporation

In 2000 was created Line Corporation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The typical startup value when the investment from Line Corporation is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Line Corporation performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the Line Corporation, startups are often financed by DCM Ventures, Walden Venture Capital, Translink Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Naver Corporation, SMBC Venture Capital, Softbank Ventures Asia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, iMercury Capital, Viola Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mobike, Soundhound, Line Pay. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Mobile. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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