Mistletoe

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

96

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

63

Rounds per year

8.73

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningEducationInternet of ThingsAgTech

Summary

Mistletoe is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

This organization was formed by Taizo Son. The overall number of key employees were 16.

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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sea, Enevo, EdCast Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, FinTech.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Mistletoe, startups are often financed by M&S Partners, Lifeline Ventures, Tesi. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are M&S Partners, Accel, Zeroth.AI. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trifecta Capital Advisors, Tiger Global Management, SBI Investment.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Mistletoe works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Singapore

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
96
Lead investments
14
Exits
4
Rounds per year
8.73
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Artificial Intelligence (13)
  • E-Learning (13)
  • Education (11)
  • E-Commerce (11)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (37)
  • India (17)
  • United States (12)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Singapore (10)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
99M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.86
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
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