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Samurai Incubate

Founders Hayato Ikegami Kentaro Sakakibara

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Total investments 183
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$891K
Portfolio companies 146
Rounds per year 11.44
Lead investments 30
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Apps
Summary

Samurai Incubate appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Samurai Incubate, startups are often financed by UpWest Labs, Oryzn Capital, Founders Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yanki Margalit, MassChallenge, DOGAN beta. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, JAFCO Japan, Incubate Fund.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight trippiece, Pathee, YAMAP. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Samurai Incubate performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Samurai Incubate is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars are the general things for fund.

The current fund was established by Hayato Ikegami, Kentaro Sakakibara. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sotas

Chemical
Service Industry
$3M14 Feb 2024 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

SolvifAI

$300K01 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Ascend

Logistics
Professional Services
Service Industry
$2M06 Dec 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

IDDK

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$2M28 Nov 2023 Koto, Japan

Pricepally.com

E-Commerce
Retail
$1M17 Nov 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Sotas

Chemical
Service Industry
$1M11 Jul 2023 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hexa

Augmented Reality
B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce Platforms
Enterprise Software
Fashion
Furniture
Information Technology
Internet
Productivity Tools
Real Time
Retail
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$20M01 Mar 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

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Total investments 183
Average round size 891K
Rounds per year 11.44
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 30
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.32

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sotas

Chemical
Service Industry
$3M14 Feb 2024 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

SolvifAI

$300K01 Feb 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Ascend

Logistics
Professional Services
Service Industry
$2M06 Dec 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

IDDK

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$2M28 Nov 2023 Koto, Japan

Pricepally.com

E-Commerce
Retail
$1M17 Nov 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

Sotas

Chemical
Service Industry
$1M11 Jul 2023 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hexa

Augmented Reality
B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce Platforms
Enterprise Software
Fashion
Furniture
Information Technology
Internet
Productivity Tools
Real Time
Retail
Retail Technology
Shopping
Software
$20M01 Mar 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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