Line
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Line is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Information Technology. LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $42M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Line invests in
Stages Line invests in
Countries Line invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3M–$63M
- Series B
- $4M–$25M
- Corporate Round
- $8M–$468M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (25%)
- Information Technology 7 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (25%)
- Financial Services 5 (18%)
- Apps 4 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (25%)
- Corporate Round 7 (25%)
- Series B 4 (14%)
- Seed 2 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (7%)
Country
- Japan 8 (29%)
- United States 6 (21%)
- Singapore 3 (11%)
- South Korea 3 (11%)
- Taiwan 2 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Jun Masuda
Director CSMO
|
Director CSMO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Shintaro Tabata
Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales
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Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Alberto Nicolas Casado
Marketing Manager Latam
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Marketing Manager Latam | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Euivin Park
Senior Vice President & CTO
|
Senior Vice President & CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hanna Lee
China Hong Kong Business
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China Hong Kong Business | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LifeAt is a digital workspace tool that helps users focus using timers, music, notes, task lists, and virtual backgrounds. It combines productivity features like Pomodoro timer, calendar, and to-do lists to support work and study sessions. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jan 30, 2023 | ||
| Tooning is a content production platform where people can easily create comic style content. Tooning is a content production platform where people can easily create comic style content. The service is free to everyone, where individuals, organizations, schools, and institutions can freely access. We provide high-quality and various resources,such as characters, backgrounds, and props, best suitable for content productions. Additionally, people can enjoy all the resources provided by Tooning without worrying about the copyrights. | $3M / Series A / Jun 03, 2022 | ||
| The Parentinc is one of Asia’s fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Singapore. Its flagship brand, theAsianparent, is Southeast Asia’s largest content and community platform for parents, with a reach of over 35 million users monthly and an app store rating of 4.9 stars. The Parentinc also owns and operates direct to consumer brand Mama’sChoice, which manufactures and retails safe, natural, and Halal pregnancy, nursing, baby care, and household products that are designed and tested in Singapore for families in Asia. Also under The Parentinc banner are Webtretho, Vietnam's largest online content and community platform for women, and Bé Yêu, Vietnam's highest downloaded pregnancy and parenting app.The Parentinc investors include: Central Retail Corporation, Fosun International, Global Grand Leisure, JD.com, LINE SEA Corp., Mirae Asset-Naver New Growth Fund, Redbadge Pacific, SCB 10X, Tigris Capital, Vertex Ventures, and WHG Holdings. | $8M / Corporate Round / Mar 10, 2022 | ||
| Sproot engages in the media and entertainment business. | Corporate Round / May 27, 2020 | ||
| LINE TAXI is an online taxi hailing service solution company. It uses the latest chatbot technology and provides taxi hailing services through LINE. LINE TAXI connects online and offline life circles to provide users with smart and convenient life proposals. | Series A / Dec 02, 2019 | ||
| Loyyal leverages blockchain and smart contract technology to provide loyalty and rewards network infrastructure solutions. It introduces interoperability to the currently fragmented industry, multi-branded coalitions, superior program liability management and dynamic issuance/redemption options customized for each unique relationship. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Line Pay is a secure & easy payment platform. | $182M / Corporate Round / Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| AnyMind Group has created one of the first end-to-end brand enablement platforms, developing and providing inter-connected software and offerings to enable businesses and individuals - from brand building, manufacturing and e-commerce, to marketing, logistics and global expansion. The company is on a mission to make every business borderless byremoving borders between businesses and customers, online and offline, and between industries, data silos, geographical boundaries and more. AnyMind Group was founded in Singapore in April 2016, and has since expanded into 13 markets and 17 offices including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, India and the United Arab Emirates. For more information, visit us at https://anymindgroup.com | $13.4M / Series B / Oct 29, 2018 | ||
| freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business.The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan. | $60M / Series E / Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Venture Republic runs a group of online travel websites and services worldwide. Venture Republic aims to always be the best answer to every question and question of the user, where and how and how much they can go and what they can do where they go. the company operates a website with both quality and quantity by expanding the categories ofhandling and providing useful functions and services that assist users in purchasing activities, leveraging their expertise. | Corporate Round / Jul 11, 2018 | ||
| See all 28 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Line invest in?
Line invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Line's check size?
Line typically joins rounds of $3M–$63M at Series A, $4M–$25M at Series B and $8M–$468M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Line participates in.
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Who are the partners at Line?
The team at Line includes Jun Masuda (Director CSMO), Shintaro Tabata (Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales) and Alberto Nicolas Casado (Marketing Manager Latam), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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