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What does Rakuten Capital invest in?
Rakuten Capital invests most often at Series A and Series C (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Commerce, Communications and Marketing.
Rakuten Capital highlights
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46 rounds on record
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Mostly Series A and Series C: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 6 rounds, median $10M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Rakuten Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Rakuten GroupFrom their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- CommerceCommunicationsMarketing
- Based in
- Setagaya, Japan
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first46 appearances
- 2019
9 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- 2018
8 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- May
- Feb
- Jan
- 2017
10 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2016
6 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jan
- 2015
6 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- 2014
7 rounds
- Nov
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 3 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)
25 of 48 we have independently watched raise
Invested in AWL,Invested in Airalo,Invested in Cariuma,Invested in Currencycloud,Invested in Glovo,Invested in InsightX,Invested in Leal,Invested in OKAN,Invested in Petokoto,TokyoInvested in PremFina,Invested in ProofInvested in RedDoorz,Invested in SecaiInvested in Simplesurance,Invested in Taster,Invested in TeraWatt,Invested in Toranotec,Invested in Twid,Invested in Ubie,Invested in Verishop,Invested in dacadoo,Invested in enstem,Invested in hacomono,Invested mov, TokyoUpstartInvested Shopback, SingaporeInvested in Aimed,Invested in Baaz,Invested in Bejewel,Invested in DAITO,Invested in DEA,Invested in Elumild,Invested in Folio,Invested in HonestInvested in JEPLAN,Invested in KINS,Invested in ManpukuInvested in POCKETALK,Invested in Redcliff,Invested in SYLAInvested in ScienceInvested in TapFun,Invested in ToonInvested in UncoverInvested in Veramore,Invested in dataX,RobinTENTIAL, portfolio company,
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
CareemBought by Uber$3.1BMar 2019
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.