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WERU Investment

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 18
Rounds per year 0.77
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Information Services
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Big Data
Summary

WERU Investment is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline LeoLabs Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Social.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this WERU Investment works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the WERU Investment, startups are often financed by Dylan Taylor, SRI International, Kotaro Chiba. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Airbus Ventures, Space Capital, Space Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WM Partners, TBS Innovation Partners, Seraphim Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Novity

$7M21 Feb 2024 San Carlos, California, United States

Cinderelax

Apps
Beauty
Cosmetics
Video
01 Feb 2024 Japan

Trustart

Big Data
Information Technology
Real Estate
$4M02 Aug 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ELternal

B2B
Consulting
Religion
$273K04 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

MIRROR FIT

Fitness
Information Technology
Wellness
$1M18 Nov 2020 Minato, Japan

Zuva KK

Information Services
Information Technology
Web Development
$728K16 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

LeoLabs

Aerospace
Aerospace and Defense
Analytics
Database
Electronic Components
Mapping Services
Software
$13M26 Jul 2018 California, United States

Infostellar

Aerospace
Crowdsourcing
Internet
Satellite Communication
Software
$7M13 Sep 2017 Chiyoda

VAQSO

Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$600K28 Jun 2017 Chiyoda

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Total investments 20
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.77
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.60

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Novity

$7M21 Feb 2024 San Carlos, California, United States

Cinderelax

Apps
Beauty
Cosmetics
Video
01 Feb 2024 Japan

Trustart

Big Data
Information Technology
Real Estate
$4M02 Aug 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

ELternal

B2B
Consulting
Religion
$273K04 Dec 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

MIRROR FIT

Fitness
Information Technology
Wellness
$1M18 Nov 2020 Minato, Japan

Zuva KK

Information Services
Information Technology
Web Development
$728K16 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

LeoLabs

Aerospace
Aerospace and Defense
Analytics
Database
Electronic Components
Mapping Services
Software
$13M26 Jul 2018 California, United States

Infostellar

Aerospace
Crowdsourcing
Internet
Satellite Communication
Software
$7M13 Sep 2017 Chiyoda

VAQSO

Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$600K28 Jun 2017 Chiyoda
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