ZenShin Capital

Total investments

16

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.94

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileBusiness IntelligenceNavigationHardwareAdvertisingInternet of ThingsDigital MediaAdvertising Platforms

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
1
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.94
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (5)
  • Internet (5)
  • Software (4)
  • Hardware (4)
  • Internet of Things (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
116M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.22
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
01 Oct 2007 Mobile, Casual Games, MMO Games Seed 288K Germany, Berlin
Strikingly 01 Apr 2014 Internet, Mobile, Web Design Seed United States, California, Sunnyvale
Sumgen Biotech 21 Feb 2019 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Clinical Trials Early Stage Venture 0 China, Zhejiang, Shangcheng District

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