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OPT Ventures

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 35
Rounds per year 5.33
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 6
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Content
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2015 was created OPT Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline FlyData, Rocksbox, WAmazing Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Fashion. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the OPT Ventures, startups are often financed by Incubate Fund, YJ Capital, Venture United. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mizuho Capital, Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd., Shizuoka Capital Wealth Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sumitomo Corporation, Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd., POLA Orbis Holdings.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CirclePe

$1M28 May 2024 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Receptionist

Apps
Human Resources
Internet
Software
19 Mar 2020 Chiyoda

wakuwaku

Media and Entertainment
Renewable Energy
$3M03 Feb 2020 Chiyoda

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$9M16 Jul 2019 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$5M19 Jun 2019 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Sider

Developer Tools
Software
$691K13 Feb 2019 Japan, Chiyoda

Space Market

Local
Payments
Travel
$7M23 Jan 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Space Market

Local
Payments
Travel
16 Nov 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$905K22 May 2018 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

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Total investments 48
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 5.33
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CirclePe

$1M28 May 2024 Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Receptionist

Apps
Human Resources
Internet
Software
19 Mar 2020 Chiyoda

wakuwaku

Media and Entertainment
Renewable Energy
$3M03 Feb 2020 Chiyoda

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$9M16 Jul 2019 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$5M19 Jun 2019 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Sider

Developer Tools
Software
$691K13 Feb 2019 Japan, Chiyoda

Space Market

Local
Payments
Travel
$7M23 Jan 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Space Market

Local
Payments
Travel
16 Nov 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

sitateru

Fashion
Lifestyle
Outsourcing
$905K22 May 2018 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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