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DeNA
Telecom · Mobile Gaming · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 1999 · IPO 2005
Investors
3 investors on DeNA's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.
DeNA mafia
Startups founded by DeNA alumni
Former DeNA employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Akshat GoelIndia
takafumi shimadaJapan
Taisuke MinoUnited States
Steven GarciaUnited States
Jeffrey KaditzUnited States
Shun HashimotoJapan
Hisashige HashimotoJapan
Ahmad ShiinaJapan
Makoto HarutaJapan
Takaaki MizunoUnited Kingdom
Yosuke AsanoJapanGlobal footprint
Where DeNA has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of DeNA's talent
Dealroom maps DeNA's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$58M patent portfolio · 468 active families
Where DeNA concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across DeNA and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
DeNA's 137 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where DeNA appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
137 deals across DeNA's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where DeNA deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
DeNA's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about DeNA
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DeNA on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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