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Nikkei Inc

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Information Services
  • Service Industry
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Apps
Summary

Nikkei Inc is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1876. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - The Netherlands. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Photography, Video. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Evernote, Viibar, Blendle.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Nikkei Inc, startups are often financed by T. Rowe Price, Globis Capital Partners, GREE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kortschak Investments, L.P., INKEF Capital, Globis Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UTEcon

Accounting
Consulting
Training
28 Sep 2020 Bunkyo, Japan

Blendle

Digital Media
E-Commerce
Journalism
Mobile Apps
News
Publishing
14 Apr 2017 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Viibar

Video
$3M22 Jan 2017 Chiyoda

EventRegist

Event Management
Events
Service Industry
$1M01 Apr 2014 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 14
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

UTEcon

Accounting
Consulting
Training
28 Sep 2020 Bunkyo, Japan

Blendle

Digital Media
E-Commerce
Journalism
Mobile Apps
News
Publishing
14 Apr 2017 Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Viibar

Video
$3M22 Jan 2017 Chiyoda

EventRegist

Event Management
Events
Service Industry
$1M01 Apr 2014 Chiyoda, Japan
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