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ZenShin Capital

Founders Takeshi Mori Yoji Kawaguchi

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.94
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 5
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Internet of Things
Summary

In 2005 was created ZenShin Capital, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2008. This ZenShin Capital works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the ZenShin Capital, startups are often financed by El Dorado Ventures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, Foundation Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Startup Capital Ventures, 500 Startups, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Startup Capital Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, TSVC.

This organization was formed by Takeshi Mori, Yoji Kawaguchi.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Employment. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline HackerRank, VideoAmp, Iotera For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VideoAmp

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business Intelligence
Digital Media
$13M11 Nov 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Iotera

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Wireless
$1M25 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Iotera

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Wireless
$1M25 Feb 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

VideoAmp

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business Intelligence
Digital Media
$2M12 Dec 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Strikingly

Internet
Mobile
Web Design
01 Apr 2014 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Strikingly

Internet
Mobile
Web Design
$1M29 Apr 2013 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Peatix

E-Commerce
Event Management
SaaS
$1M13 Jul 2012 New York, New York, United States

HackerRank

Employment
Internet
Internet of Things
Recruiting
Skill Assessment
Software
$3M28 Sep 2011 United States, Mountain View

Dash Navigation

Internet
Mobile
Navigation
$30M01 Feb 2008 Texas, United States

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Total investments 16
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.94
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VideoAmp

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business Intelligence
Digital Media
$13M11 Nov 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Iotera

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Wireless
$1M25 May 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Iotera

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Internet of Things
Wireless
$1M25 Feb 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

VideoAmp

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Business Intelligence
Digital Media
$2M12 Dec 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Strikingly

Internet
Mobile
Web Design
01 Apr 2014 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Strikingly

Internet
Mobile
Web Design
$1M29 Apr 2013 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Peatix

E-Commerce
Event Management
SaaS
$1M13 Jul 2012 New York, New York, United States

HackerRank

Employment
Internet
Internet of Things
Recruiting
Skill Assessment
Software
$3M28 Sep 2011 United States, Mountain View

Dash Navigation

Internet
Mobile
Navigation
$30M01 Feb 2008 Texas, United States
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