Yahoo! Japan

Summary

In 1996 was created Yahoo! Japan, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Internet. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Skyscanner, Appnexus, Taboola

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Yahoo! Japan, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, TomorrowVentures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YJ Capital, dmg ventures, Vitruvian Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by East Ventures, YJ Capital, Vine St. Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Yahoo! Japan works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Yahoo! Japan is more than 1 billion dollars.