JAFCO is a private equity firm and venture capital firm. Team members are concentrated in Tokyo, Japan. Among the 11 companies in the known portfolio are Forward, Sharing Energy, H2, Kaiwuji, Oceanic Constellations and Antway.
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Who to pitch at JAFCO
JAFCO portfolio companies (11)
- Forward
- Sharing Energy
- H2
- Kaiwuji
- Oceanic Constellations
- Antway
- Nexta
- Aracan
- FactBase
- SYSLEA
- Torihada
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About JAFCO
The firm's listing covers sectors AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech, and focus areas Analytics, Content, Data and Information Services; known deals cluster at Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed.
Of the 8 people on file at JAFCO, Thaer Aladwan (Chief Executive Officer), Takehito Ogata (Principal) and Tomoko Numata (Principal) are listed as the contacts to approach first.
Across the known portfolio, 20 co-investors appear alongside JAFCO, including ジャフコ グループ, Stock Option Investors and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
Frequently asked questions
What is JAFCO?
JAFCO is a private equity firm and venture capital firm whose team is concentrated in Tokyo, Japan, with a known portfolio of 11 companies. The portfolio comes from public investment records rather than from the firm, so deals that never surfaced publicly are not in it.
What does JAFCO invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech; listed focus areas include Analytics, Content, Data and Information Services. Those tags come from the portfolio attached to the firm, so they describe what has been backed rather than a stated mandate for what comes next.
What stage does JAFCO invest at?
The known deals of JAFCO include Growth, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds. Check that against your own round before reaching out: stage mismatch is the most common reason a well matched sector still goes nowhere.
Who should I pitch at JAFCO?
3 of the 8 people on file at JAFCO are listed as contacts for the firm. All 8 have their own profile page.
How do I contact JAFCO?
Any email address on file for the firm is masked on this page and readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The 8 people attached to the firm have their own pages, each showing whether an address is on file for them.
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