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YJ Capital

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Total investments 134
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 91
Rounds per year 12.18
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 19
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Food and Beverage
  • Internet
  • Task 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Apps
Food and Beverage
Mobile Apps
01 Dec 2020 Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
18 Nov 2020 Japan

Internet
Robotics
Software
$1M28 Sep 2020 Japan, Chiyoda

subsclife

Consumer Goods
Furniture
Rental
$27M14 Sep 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Apps
Audio
Content
$4M20 Aug 2020 Shibuya, Japan

Gracia Japan

Internet
Media and Entertainment
$10M29 Jul 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

THECOO

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
$6M20 Jul 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

THECOO

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
$3M02 Jun 2020 Japan, Chiyoda

Repro

$27M13 Feb 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 134
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 12.18
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Apps
Food and Beverage
Mobile Apps
01 Dec 2020 Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
18 Nov 2020 Japan

Internet
Robotics
Software
$1M28 Sep 2020 Japan, Chiyoda

subsclife

Consumer Goods
Furniture
Rental
$27M14 Sep 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

Apps
Audio
Content
$4M20 Aug 2020 Shibuya, Japan

Gracia Japan

Internet
Media and Entertainment
$10M29 Jul 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

THECOO

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
$6M20 Jul 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

THECOO

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Recruiting
$3M02 Jun 2020 Japan, Chiyoda

Repro

$27M13 Feb 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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