Neoteny

Summary

In 1999 was created Neoteny, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

This organization was formed by Joi Ito. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Neoteny, startups are often financed by LVP, Novator, Max Levchin. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The E14 Fund, Sound Ventures, Rakuten. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by August Capital, Novator, Northzone.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Comparing to the other companies, this Neoteny performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Collaboration, News. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Emerald Cloud Lab, Spatial, Wise Systems