WERU Investment
Active
20
4M
18
0.77
5
0.05
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 0.77
- Follow on index
- 0.05
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (6)
- Information Services (3)
- Software (3)
- Analytics (3)
- Big Data (3) Show 41 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (16)
- United States (3)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 42K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.60
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.84
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeoLabs | 26 Jul 2018 | Aerospace and Defense, Electronic Components, Software, Analytics, Aerospace, Database, Mapping Services | Early Stage Venture | 13M | United States, California |
| Novity | 21 Feb 2024 | Seed | 7M | United States, California, San Carlos | |
| Shotput | 18 Aug 2015 | Logistics, Software, Robotics, Manufacturing, Shipping | Seed | 120K | United States, California, Oakland |
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