Nippon Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

219

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

163

Rounds per year

7.82

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

25

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyRecruitingHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedia and EntertainmentTask Management

Summary

Nippon Venture Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Nippon Venture Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund has 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Market Research, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Metaps Inc., MaritzCX, WHILL

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Nippon Venture Capital, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, Draper Nexus Ventures, CyberAgent Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Nissei Capital, Nissay Capital, Draper Nexus Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, DBJ Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
TelecommunicationsHealthcareBiotech/Life SciencesClimate techEnergy Show 5 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 700000000

Analytics

Total investments
219
Lead investments
21
Exits
25
Rounds per year
7.82
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (33)
  • Health Care (25)
  • Information Technology (24)
  • Internet (20)
  • Medical Device (16)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (203)
  • United States (11)
  • Israel (3)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2016
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
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
916K
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.41
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Spider Labs 21 Nov 2019 Internet, Cyber Security, Security Early Stage Venture 2M Chiyoda, Japan
YADOKARI 07 May 2024 Early Stage Venture 2M Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama, Japan
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