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Rakuten Capital

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Rakuten Capital is a corporate venture arm based in Japan, investing in Software & Developer Tools, Finance & Blockchain and Commerce & Marketing, 46 tracked investments.

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About Rakuten Capital

Operating out of Japan, Rakuten Capital is a corporate venture arm. Our dataset covers 46 investments involving Rakuten Capital.

Recorded deals span Software & Developer Tools, Finance & Blockchain, Commerce & Marketing and Mobility. Coverage extends to 8 sectors in total. Participation spans Series A, Series B and Series C+ rounds.

Rakuten Capital primarily invests in series-a stage companies with B2C business models. Their main sector focus is finance and blockchain.

Investment Focus

Stage Focus
series-aseries-bseries-c-plus
Sectors
Software & Developer ToolsFinance & BlockchainCommerce & MarketingmobilityAdvertisingecommercepaymentstransportation

Investment Thesis

Rakuten Capital primarily invests in series-a stage companies with B2C business models. Their main sector focus is finance and blockchain.

Rakuten Capital Portfolio Companies

24 of 29 tracked holdings.

Baaz BikesIndiaLyftUnited StatesRakuten MedicalUnited StatesCarousellSingaporeCabifySpainSecai MarcheJapanAiraloSingaporeGlovoSpainTasterFrancePinterestUnited StatesAST SpaceMobileUnited StatesCurrencycloudUnited KingdomMarfeelSpainCareemUnited Arab EmiratesBizReachJapanLealColombiaFeverUnited StatesPremfinaUnited KingdomLingvistEstoniaAzimoUnited KingdomKreditechGermanySimplesuranceGermanyTradoriaGermanyUbieJapan
Portfolio outcomes
20 active3 acquired1 defunct10.3% exit rate

Team

Michael PiechalakSaeMin AhnRyuji

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