NTT DoCoMo

Total investments

39

Average round size

282M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

1.18

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

9

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceAdvertisingInternet of ThingsWirelessTaxi Service

Summary

NTT DoCoMo appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1991. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the NTT DoCoMo, startups are often financed by Partech, K9 Ventures, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Inspire Ventures, Zouk Capital, WRV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by World Innovation Lab (WiL), Trinity Ventures, Social Starts.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wearables, Information Technology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline aCommerce, Edgematrix, TuneWiki The fund has no specific favorite 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. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. This NTT DoCoMo works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
5
Exits
9
Rounds per year
1.18
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Internet of Things (5)
  • Wireless (5)
  • Transportation (4)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (24)
  • United States (8)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • France (1)
  • Israel (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
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
106M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
10
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
RADAR 13 Jul 2023 E-Commerce, Retail, Computer Vision, Wireless, RFID Early Stage Venture 30M United States, New York, New York
Six Apart 01 Mar 2006 Publishing, Internet, Software, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, News, Blogging Platforms Late Stage Venture 12M United States, New York
TuneWiki 08 Feb 2010 Mobile, Developer Tools, Music, iOS, Android Early Stage Venture 7M United States, California, Santa Monica
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