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OKWave

Total investments

7

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.30

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechHealth CareMobile PaymentsSecurityPersonal HealthBitcoinCryptocurrencyVirtual Currency

Summary

In 1999 was created OKWave, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. 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.

This organization was formed by Kaneto Kanemoto.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the OKWave, startups are often financed by Infoteria Corporation, SBI Investment, Nippon Technology Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shinsei Bank, Nippon Technology Venture Partners, Money Partners Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Infoteria Corporation, Shinsei Bank, SMBC Venture Capital.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline BRD, LastRoots, Tech Bureau For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Virtual Currency, Cryptocurrency.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.30
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Cryptocurrency (5)
  • FinTech (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Security (2)
  • Virtual Currency (1)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (6)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tech Bureau 11 May 2016 FinTech, Security, Cryptocurrency Early Stage Venture 6M Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan
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