UTokyo Innovation Platform

Summary

UTokyo Innovation Platform appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the UTokyo Innovation Platform, startups are often financed by Japan Science and Technology Agency, Weathernews, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment, Mizuho Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, Joe Hirao, Japan Finance Corporation.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Synspective Inc., Astroscale, CREWT Medical Systems, Inc.. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as IT Infrastructure, Wearables. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.