Yamaguchi Capital

Total investments

40

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

1.43

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

3

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetInformation TechnologyAppsManufacturingMedicalMusicTourismPet

Summary

In 1996 was created Yamaguchi Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Yamaguchi. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Yamaguchi Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Yamaguchi Capital, startups are often financed by Nissay Capital, Mizuho Capital, Spiral Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, DOGAN beta, i Mercury Capital.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Mobile Devices. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zapaq, SkyDisc,Inc., YAMAP. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.43
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Apps (6)
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Internet (4)
  • Pet (3)
  • E-Commerce (3)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (38)
  • India (1)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
321K
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MUSE 11 Jun 2024 Robotics, Intelligent Systems Seed 5M Tokyo, Kantō, Japan
SkyDisc 03 Oct 2017 Analytics, Big Data Early Stage Venture 6M Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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