Total investments

10

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.11

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareEducationSocial NetworkBig DataManufacturingFashionSemiconductorTutoringMachinery Manufacturing

Summary

In 1931 was created Z-kai, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Shizuoka.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Z-kai, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, Tenaya Capital, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ZhenFund, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited, Shinsei Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited, Shinsei Bank.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This Z-kai works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Publishing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Arcterus, mana.bo Inc., RareJob Inc.. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.11
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Education (7)
  • Internet (5)
  • Social Network (2)
  • Big Data (2)
  • Fashion (2)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (8)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.77

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Study Plus 20 Jan 2020 Apps, Education Late Stage Venture 6M Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawasaki, Japan
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