Link and Motivation
21
13M
16
0.95
2
0.24
3
- Areas of investment
Summary
Link and Motivation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2000. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BizReach, Raksul, Schoo. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Human Resources, Education.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Link and Motivation works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Link and Motivation, startups are often financed by ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Nissay Capital, ANRI. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ITOCHU Technology Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, GREE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mizuho Corporate Bank, Global Brain Corporation, Yusuke Asakura.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.95
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Marketing (5)
- Internet (5)
- Recruiting (5)
- Career Planning (4)
- Business Development (3) Show 36 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (21)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Group Appearance index
- 0.71
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data X | 08 May 2014 | Marketing, Task Management, CRM | Seed | Arakawa, Japan |
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