Whiz Partners
23
16M
19
1.92
17
0.17
15
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 17
- Exits
- 15
- Rounds per year
- 1.92
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (10)
- Pharmaceutical (8)
- Medical (6)
- Health Care (6)
- Software (6) Show 42 more
- Investments by region
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- Japan (19)
- United States (4)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.17
- Avg. company exit year
- 17
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.18
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHILL | 17 Sep 2018 | Automotive, Mobile, Robotics, Medical Device, Hardware, Internet of Things | Late Stage Venture | 45M | United States, California |
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