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Saison Ventures

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 36
Rounds per year 4.33
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • Fashion
  • Finance
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Crowdsourcing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BRD, KAMARQ, CureApp. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Saison Ventures, startups are often financed by GREE Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, GMO VenturePartners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Dai-ichi Life, CyberAgent Capital, Credit Saison. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YJ Capital, Rohto Pharmaceutical, Dai-ichi Life.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kenzo

$1M08 Apr 2024 Minami-aoyama, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

Peco Free

Apps
Food and Beverage
Software
$26M08 Mar 2024 Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

yup

Accounting
Payments
$17M15 Dec 2022 Minato, Japan

LUCA Japan

Financial Services
$2M25 Jul 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

pickupon

Hardware
Software
$2M15 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Brave group

Animation
Internet
Marketing
$12M10 Jun 2022 Minato, Japan

HAKKI AFRICA

Finance
Financial Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$2M14 Mar 2022 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nudge

Financial Services
15 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Engate

Communities
Gaming
Sports
02 Nov 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 39
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 4.33
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.05
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kenzo

$1M08 Apr 2024 Minami-aoyama, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

Peco Free

Apps
Food and Beverage
Software
$26M08 Mar 2024 Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

yup

Accounting
Payments
$17M15 Dec 2022 Minato, Japan

LUCA Japan

Financial Services
$2M25 Jul 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

pickupon

Hardware
Software
$2M15 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Brave group

Animation
Internet
Marketing
$12M10 Jun 2022 Minato, Japan

HAKKI AFRICA

Finance
Financial Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$2M14 Mar 2022 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nudge

Financial Services
15 Feb 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Engate

Communities
Gaming
Sports
02 Nov 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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