NTT DOCOMO Ventures

company

About

NTT DOCOMO Ventures invests in the field of information technology, telecommunications, and contents platform services.

  • 11 - 50

Details

Industries
Financial Services,Information Technology,Robotics,Venture Capital
Founded date
Feb 20, 2008
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active
Investor Type
Accelerate,CVC,Incubator,Venture Capital

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.

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
15
4
NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made 15 investments. Their most recent investment was on Aug 23, 2022, when Inworld AI raised $50M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Aug 23, 2022 Inworld AI
Series A $50M Artificial Intelligence
Oct 19, 2021 JumpCloud
Series F $66M Cloud Data Services
May 6, 2021 Arcturus
Seed $5M Apps
Dec 11, 2019 Zippin
Series A $12M Artificial Intelligence
Dec 3, 2019 LISNR
Series Unknown Analytics Yes