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Nippon Technology Venture Partners

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.42
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 4
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Robotics
Summary

Nippon Technology Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight COMSA, Infoteria Corporation, LifeRobotics. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cryptocurrency, Messaging. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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 3-4 participants. Despite the Nippon Technology Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Yoshiyuki Kitahara, Pina Hirano, OKWave. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FISCO Capitals, OKWave, Money Partners Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Infoteria Corporation, OKWave, JAFCO Japan.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Opposing the other organizations, this Nippon Technology Venture Partners works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

warashibe

Blockchain
Financial Services
09 Dec 2021 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Cryptocurrency
IT Management
Social Network
$455K22 Nov 2017 Japan, Chiyoda

Gruff

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
$910K28 Dec 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Tech Bureau

Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Security
$6M11 May 2016 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

LifeRobotics

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$2M08 Mar 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

LifeRobotics

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$2M26 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

DeNA

E-Commerce
Internet
Messaging
Mobile
$11M23 Mar 2000 Japan, Chiyoda

Asteria Japan

Media and Entertainment
Software
Task Management
Web Development
$5M17 Nov 1999 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 10
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.42
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

warashibe

Blockchain
Financial Services
09 Dec 2021 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Cryptocurrency
IT Management
Social Network
$455K22 Nov 2017 Japan, Chiyoda

Gruff

Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
$910K28 Dec 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

Tech Bureau

Cryptocurrency
FinTech
Security
$6M11 May 2016 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

LifeRobotics

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$2M08 Mar 2016 Chiyoda, Japan

LifeRobotics

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
$2M26 Nov 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

DeNA

E-Commerce
Internet
Messaging
Mobile
$11M23 Mar 2000 Japan, Chiyoda

Asteria Japan

Media and Entertainment
Software
Task Management
Web Development
$5M17 Nov 1999 Chiyoda, Japan
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