Rakuten Capital

Summary

In 1997 was created Rakuten Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Setagaya. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. Rakuten Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Rakuten Capital, startups are often financed by Seaya Ventures, Morado Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Maven Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Work-Bench. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rakuten, Golden Gate Ventures, Sequoia Capital India.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Go-Jek, Cabify, Black Fish The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Developer Tools. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Rakuten Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.