Rakuten
Corporate VC
Corporate venture capital arm of Japanese technology conglomerate Rakuten Group, providing funding and operational support to portfolio companies worldwide including Lyft, Pinterest, Carousell, and Upstart.
Early Stage
Growth
Seed
E-Commerce
Fintech
Artificial Intelligence
Payments
consumer internet
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 1997
- Website
- capital.rakuten.com
- AUM
- $1.0B
- Portfolio Companies
- 2
- Total Investments
- 29
- Last Investment
- May 2024
- Geographic Focus
- Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe, Japan, United States
Investment Thesis
Focus on transformative products in Commerce, Communications, Financial Services, Mobility, and Healthcare, leveraging Rakuten's global ecosystem of 70+ services to provide strategic and operational support to founders.
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