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Neoteny

Founders Joi Ito

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.61
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • News
  • Gaming
  • Artificial Intelligence
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

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guardian Agriculture

Agriculture
AgTech
$10M06 Apr 2021 Malden, Massachusetts, United States

Overjet

Artificial Intelligence
Dental
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Diagnostics
Software
$7M02 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Klang Games

Android
Gaming
Information Technology
iOS
PC Games
Product Design
Software
$22M15 Aug 2019 Berlin

Wise Systems

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Machine Learning
Mobile
Software
$7M06 Dec 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Spatial

Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M24 Oct 2018 New York, New York, United States

Pixel Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
News
$10M10 Sep 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Optimus Ride

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Robotics
$18M02 Nov 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.

Digital Media
Music
Software
$4M27 Feb 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Pixel Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
News
$4M10 May 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 14
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 0.61
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Guardian Agriculture

Agriculture
AgTech
$10M06 Apr 2021 Malden, Massachusetts, United States

Overjet

Artificial Intelligence
Dental
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Diagnostics
Software
$7M02 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Klang Games

Android
Gaming
Information Technology
iOS
PC Games
Product Design
Software
$22M15 Aug 2019 Berlin

Wise Systems

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Machine Learning
Mobile
Software
$7M06 Dec 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Spatial

Augmented Reality
Software
Virtual Reality
$8M24 Oct 2018 New York, New York, United States

Pixel Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
News
$10M10 Sep 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Optimus Ride

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Robotics
$18M02 Nov 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.

Digital Media
Music
Software
$4M27 Feb 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Pixel Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Location Based Services
News
$4M10 May 2016 San Francisco, California, United States
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