In 1997 was created Rakuten, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lyft, Pinterest, Go-Jek For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Rakuten, startups are often financed by Rakuten Capital, FirstMark, Founders Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Graphene Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tencent Holdings, M13, Graphene Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Rakuten is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Rakuten performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Hiroshi Mikitani. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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