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Primal Capital

Founders Hiroshi Sasaki

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$849K
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 3.20
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Task Management
  • Internet of Things
  • Information Technology
  • Computer
Summary

In 2014 was created Primal Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo.

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 Internet, Web Development. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Future Standard Co., Ltd., FABRIC TOKYO.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Primal Capital performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

This organization was formed by Hiroshi Sasaki. 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 Primal Capital, startups are often financed by Incubate Fund, ABBALab - Atom to Bit, Bit to Atom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Incubate Fund, iSGS Investment Works, YJ Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spiral Ventures Pte Ltd., Nissay Capital, iSGS Investment Works.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

xCARE

$1M13 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Hivello

Information Technology
Internet of Things
$2M14 Dec 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Rand

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
20 Apr 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

mawari

Advertising
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$6M08 Feb 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

xCARE

01 May 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

DeepSquare

Environmental Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Information Technology
Life Science
Mechanical Engineering
Software
$1M01 Nov 2021 Zug, Zug, Switzerland

Hireroo

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$327K25 Mar 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Degas

Agriculture
B2B
Farming
$2M30 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

fuku

Information Technology
Sales
Software
$409K14 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 32
Average round size 849K
Rounds per year 3.20
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

xCARE

$1M13 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Hivello

Information Technology
Internet of Things
$2M14 Dec 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Rand

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
20 Apr 2023 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

mawari

Advertising
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$6M08 Feb 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

xCARE

01 May 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

DeepSquare

Environmental Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Information Technology
Life Science
Mechanical Engineering
Software
$1M01 Nov 2021 Zug, Zug, Switzerland

Hireroo

Human Resources
Recruiting
Software
$327K25 Mar 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Degas

Agriculture
B2B
Farming
$2M30 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

fuku

Information Technology
Sales
Software
$409K14 Oct 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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