Venture Capital in Japan
In June 2018, the Unicorn Mercari (EC platform for C2C used sales) made their debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. At that time a $7B valuation. Now, valued at $6.5B. The early investor United (Serie A ¥300M) cached out 30% of their shares at ¥13.5B value.
Mercari x Neymar (commemorative 100M app downloads CM)
Some numbers of startup deals in Japan:
- $2.5B on 882 deals in 2017
- $541M from 237 investors (VC/CVC/Angels) in 115 deals, 2018 1Q
- $628M from 342 investors (VC/CVC/Angels) in 182 deals, 2018 2Q
- Few foreign funds: Draper, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce and Samsung Ventures
- 40 M&A’s in 2018 including Yahoo Japan ¥9.36B Kurashiru merger in July
Japanese VC’s and Startups in Brazil
There are few investments from Japanese VC/CVC funds in Brazil:
- Rakuten acquired EC platform Ikeda in 2011/06
- Dentsu acquired mobile ad mkt Pontomobi in 2015/10
- Mitsui (CVC) investment in edtech Geekie 2015/05 (Serie B)
- Transcosmos (CVC) investment in EC startup Infracommerce 2016/11 (Serie C)
- Softbank (CVC) investment in ridesharing startup 99 2017/01 (Serie C)
And only one Japanese VC with office in Brazil Brazil Venture Capital
*DSJP Consulting is a service platform for VC’s and Startups in Japan. Tracking all deals and M&A’s on the Japanese startup ecosystem.
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