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Tokyo Founders Fund

Founders Ayataro Nakagawa Kensuke Furukawa Kiyotaka Kobayashi Nobuhiro Ariyasu Taichi Murakami Yo Shibata Yusuke Asakura Yusuke Sato

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$750K
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.33
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Market Research
  • Small and Medium Businesses
  • Media and Entertainment
  • News
Summary

Tokyo Founders Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

This organization was formed by Ayataro Nakagawa, Kensuke Furukawa, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Ariyasu, Taichi Murakami, Yo Shibata, Yusuke Asakura, Yusuke Sato. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the Tokyo Founders Fund, startups are often financed by Social Starts, Y Combinator, Ventures Platform. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vectr, Tyler Scriven, The Asahi Shimbun Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Visa, Tencent Holdings.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. This Tokyo Founders Fund works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Nigeria. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Paystack. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Internet.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Art
Big Data
Digital Media
Intellectual Property
$950K24 May 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Paystack

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
Payments
$1M19 Dec 2016 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

beSUCCESS

Consulting
Internet
Market Research
Media and Entertainment
News
Small and Medium Businesses
22 Aug 2016 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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Total investments 3
Average round size 750K
Rounds per year 0.33
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Binded

Art
Big Data
Digital Media
Intellectual Property
$950K24 May 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Paystack

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
Payments
$1M19 Dec 2016 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

beSUCCESS

Consulting
Internet
Market Research
Media and Entertainment
News
Small and Medium Businesses
22 Aug 2016 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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