Skyland Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

102

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

83

Rounds per year

8.50

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyAppsContentVirtual RealityMusicBlockchainMedia and EntertainmentService Industry

Summary

In 2012 was created Skyland Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Skyland Ventures, startups are often financed by East Ventures, TLM, aucfan Co.,Ltd.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ayataro Nakagawa, Yusuke Sato, DeNA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GREE, East Ventures, Yuzuru Honda.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Content, Embedded Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Translimit, Jiraffe, Cluster. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

The current fund was established by Yoshihiko Kinoshita. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Blockchain/Crypto/Web3
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-Seed
Geo focus
GeneralistJapan
Check size
50K — 500K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 37000000

Analytics

Total investments
102
Lead investments
13
Exits
2
Rounds per year
8.50
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (21)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Apps (11)
  • Content (10)
  • Media and Entertainment (8)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (84)
  • United States (5)
  • Singapore (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
REVOX 13 Jun 2024 Seed 6M
Tripi 13 Feb 2024 Seed 955K Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

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