NTT DOCOMO Ventures

NTT DOCOMO Ventures

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Investment Firm

Overview

NTT DOCOMO Ventures is the venture capital arm of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. specializing in investments in incubation, early stage, middle stage, and later/pre-IPO stage companies. It prefers to invest in the field of information technology, telecommunications, content platform services, battery power, authentication security, BigData, a solution with devices, cloud, and communication platforms. The firm invests in and outside of Japan. It seeks to invest up to about USD $2 million to USD $3 million per investment. It prefers to seek minority stakes of around 20% or less per portfolio. The firm seeks to exit its investments through sales of stocks or transfer of shares to DOCOMO and NTT Group companies. It also runs an accelerator program called DOCOMO Incubation Program. Docomo Innovation Ventures, previously known as NTT Investment Partners Inc., was established on February 20, 2008, and is based in Minato, Chiba, Japan.

Highlights

Founded

2008

Industry

Information Technology

Employees

11-50

Investment

156

Lead Investment

47

Exits

35

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Seed, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Investor Type

Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital, Incubator, Venture Capital

Location

Asia

Contact Information

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Profile Resume

NTT DOCOMO Ventures, established in 2008 and headquartered in Asia., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Seed, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity investments across Social Media, Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Consumer Reviews, Android, Hospitality, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Semiconductor, Biotechnology. The organization boasts a portfolio of 156 investments, with an average round size of $13.8M and 35 successful exits. Their recent investments include Retty, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, STRIVE, Phizzle, Pairy. The highest investment round they participated in was $233.1B. Among their most notable exits are Retty and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

imagePlace Christina Ku

Christina Ku

Director

imagePlace Yuko Sasahara

Yuko Sasahara

President & CEO

imagePlace Takayuki Inagawa

Takayuki Inagawa

General Manager & Head of Innovation Management Dept.

Investment portfolio

NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made 156 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 01, 2024, when Turing raised $9.3M.

NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made 6 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Oct 19, 2021, when JumpCloud raised $66.0M.

investments

156

Diversity investments

6

Lead investments

47

Number of exits

35

Investments

156

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Apr 23, 2024
Turing Turing
Manufacturing19.4M
May 21, 2024
MOV MOV
Content9.6M
Jun 21, 2024
Soxai Soxai
Hardware5.5M
Jul 01, 2024
Turing Turing
Manufacturing9.3M

Exits

35

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

156

Investors

0

Funds

5

Funding Rounds

156

NTT DOCOMO Ventures has raised 156 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 01, 2024 from a Seed Round - Turing round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Apr 23, 2024
Seed Round - Turing Seed Round - Turing
-19.4M-
May 21, 2024
Series B - MOV Series B - MOV
-9.6M-
Jun 21, 2024
Series A - Soxai Series A - Soxai
-5.5M-
Jul 01, 2024
Seed Round - Turing Seed Round - Turing
-9.3M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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