YJ Capital

Total investments

134

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

91

Rounds per year

11.17

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

19

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageAppsContentMarketingAdvertisingTask Management

Summary

In 2012 was created YJ Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. YJ Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sociolla, BizReach, Raksul For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Software.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this YJ Capital performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the YJ Capital, startups are often financed by Incubate Fund, GREE Ventures, Globis Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, Mizuho Capital, Incubate Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mizuho Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Incubate Fund.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
134
Lead investments
19
Exits
19
Rounds per year
11.17
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Food and Beverage (17)
  • Internet (16)
  • Task Management (15)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (114)
  • United States (10)
  • Singapore (3)
  • Israel (1)
  • South Korea (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
14M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ASOVIEW Inc. 24 Apr 2015 Internet, Travel, Leisure Early Stage Venture 5M Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawasaki, Japan
Shippio 11 Nov 2019 Transportation, Task Management Early Stage Venture 10M Chiyoda, Japan

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