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Saison Ventures

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 4.86
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Key employees Soon
Chiyoda, Japan
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Software
  • Fashion
  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
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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1 500 Startups Japan
2 BEENEXT
3 MID Venture Capital
Typical Co-investors
Saison Ventures is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
1 ONI Systems
2 Sikepu Yiliao
3 Xiongbing Touzi
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Saison Ventures:
1 Vito Ventures
2 Zetta Venture Partners
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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Hardware
Software
$2M15 Jun 2022
VOYAGE VENTURES
Saison Ventures
Monex Ventures
MIRAISE
Maffin Inc.
KD Partners
East Ventures
DG Ventures
CyberAgent Capital
Colopl Next
 Chiyoda, Japan

Brave group

Animation
Internet
Marketing
$12M10 Jun 2022
Saison Ventures
Osaka Gas
Dawn Capital
 Minato, Japan

Nudge

Financial Services
15 Feb 2021
DG Ventures
Genesia Ventures
Saison Ventures
Seven Bank
Toppan Printing
Apricot Ventures
D4V - Design for Ventures
FINOLAB
 Chiyoda, Japan

Engate

Communities
Gaming
Sports
02 Nov 2020
Sega Sammy Group
SBI Investment
Saison Ventures
MPandC, Inc.
 Chiyoda, Japan

subsclife

Consumer Goods
Furniture
Rental
$27M14 Sep 2020
XTech Ventures
Global Brain Corporation
UNITED, Inc.
Double Sharp Partners
Enigmo
YJ Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
SMBC Venture Capital
Saison Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

TENTIAL

Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Sports
01 Jul 2020
Akatsuki
Saison Ventures
MTG Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABCash Technologies

Finance
Security
Software
$8M29 Jun 2020
VOYAGE GROUP
SV FRONTIER
SMBC Venture Capital
Saison Ventures
Mizuho Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
Lead Capital Management
Japan Post Capital
iSGS Investment Works
ABLE & PARTNERS
 Japan, Chiyoda

XMart

Supply Chain Management
Taxi Service
Transportation
$1M24 Sep 2019
XTech Ventures
Venture United
Saison Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

CAMPFIRE

Crowdfunding
Fashion
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
$20M10 May 2019
Saison Ventures
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank
FreakOut Holdings
WORLD
ITOCHU Corporation
SEARCH FIELD
SB Players
Parco
KDDI
Global Brain Corporation
Ceres inc.
Alliance Partners
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
 Japan, Chiyoda
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Total investments 34
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 4.86
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.06
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Hardware
Software
$2M15 Jun 2022
VOYAGE VENTURES
Saison Ventures
Monex Ventures
MIRAISE
Maffin Inc.
KD Partners
East Ventures
DG Ventures
CyberAgent Capital
Colopl Next
 Chiyoda, Japan

Brave group

Animation
Internet
Marketing
$12M10 Jun 2022
Saison Ventures
Osaka Gas
Dawn Capital
 Minato, Japan

Nudge

Financial Services
15 Feb 2021
DG Ventures
Genesia Ventures
Saison Ventures
Seven Bank
Toppan Printing
Apricot Ventures
D4V - Design for Ventures
FINOLAB
 Chiyoda, Japan

Engate

Communities
Gaming
Sports
02 Nov 2020
Sega Sammy Group
SBI Investment
Saison Ventures
MPandC, Inc.
 Chiyoda, Japan

subsclife

Consumer Goods
Furniture
Rental
$27M14 Sep 2020
XTech Ventures
Global Brain Corporation
UNITED, Inc.
Double Sharp Partners
Enigmo
YJ Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
SMBC Venture Capital
Saison Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

TENTIAL

Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Sports
01 Jul 2020
Akatsuki
Saison Ventures
MTG Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

ABCash Technologies

Finance
Security
Software
$8M29 Jun 2020
VOYAGE GROUP
SV FRONTIER
SMBC Venture Capital
Saison Ventures
Mizuho Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
Lead Capital Management
Japan Post Capital
iSGS Investment Works
ABLE & PARTNERS
 Japan, Chiyoda

XMart

Supply Chain Management
Taxi Service
Transportation
$1M24 Sep 2019
XTech Ventures
Venture United
Saison Ventures
 Chiyoda, Japan

CAMPFIRE

Crowdfunding
Fashion
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
$20M10 May 2019
Saison Ventures
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank
FreakOut Holdings
WORLD
ITOCHU Corporation
SEARCH FIELD
SB Players
Parco
KDDI
Global Brain Corporation
Ceres inc.
Alliance Partners
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
 Japan, Chiyoda
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