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Whiz Partners

Founders Atsushi Matsumura Junichi Kajimoto Masato Nakanishi Toshio Ando

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 1.92
Lead investments 17
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 15
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Medical
  • Health Care
  • Software
Summary

In 2010 was created Whiz Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Minato.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SymBio Pharmaceuticals, WHILL, Gene Techno Science. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Atsushi Matsumura, Junichi Kajimoto, Masato Nakanishi, Toshio Ando. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Whiz Partners, startups are often financed by Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Fast Track Initiative, UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBI Investment, Plug and Play Tech Center, Nippon Venture Capital.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Whiz Partners works on 36 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 75 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Caresyntax

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$45M12 Dec 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

WHILL

Automotive
Hardware
Internet of Things
Medical Device
Mobile
Robotics
$45M17 Sep 2018 California, United States

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Total investments 23
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 1.92
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.17

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Caresyntax

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Medical
Software
$45M12 Dec 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

WHILL

Automotive
Hardware
Internet of Things
Medical Device
Mobile
Robotics
$45M17 Sep 2018 California, United States
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