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What does Dentsu Ventures invest in?
Dentsu Ventures invests most often at Series B and Series A (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Omni Channel, Market Tech and Onmichannel.
Dentsu Ventures highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 64% of its rounds
What they do
Dentsu Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund that supports entrepreneurs in bringing innovation to the world through investments in and business support for startups in Japan and abroad.Translated from Japanese, from their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Omni ChannelMarket TechOnmichannel
- Based in
- Minato City, Japan
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first16 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jan
- 2025
1 round
- Jun
- 2019
3 rounds
- Nov
- Jul
- Apr
- 2018
7 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2017
1 round
- Jan
- 2016
1 round
- Jul
- 2015
2 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 7 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
37 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AsobicaAstrocadeCLUECULTAClear LabsFOLIOFUNDiTFaciloFiddlerKaKa CreationKognitosLivelikeLoomaiMACROFABMellowMysten LabsNEW STANDARDNarvarOpenWebOvertimeRoforcoSUSHITOP MARKETINGScalebaseSkyflowSolstenSurviosTuringTwo Bit CircusUBIQUITY6 (acquired by Discord)UPSIDE FoodsVidMobVoicyagolodouble jump.tokyoemoleforestinfoboxCheddar (acquired by Altice)ContentsContentsCue (IPO)Exo (acquired byGrail (acquired by Illumina)HERALBONYHoodline (acquired by Nextdoor)InworldMira Labs (acquiredNOVARCASmarking (acquired by ParkHub)Twist Bioscience (IPO)Tynker (acquired by Byju’s)WOTAdentsu Japan ハラスメント撲滅・防止宣言カウシェカケハシソラジマツクルバ (IPO)テックタッチナレッジワークライスカレー (現MUSCAT GROUP)(IPO)and 2 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.