Investor profile

Recruit Strategic Partners

Corporate, Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · Tokyo, Japan

Corporate venture arm of Recruit Holdings

58 portfolio companies Corporate, Venture Capital · $640M invested · 65 investments · Investor rank #4,281 · Last investment 6/2020

Portfolio companies 58 ↑ 39% 5y

Decacorns 0

Thoroughbreds 9 ↑ 50% 5y

Power Law #457Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 3%

Exits

Recruit Strategic Partners’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Recruit Strategic Partners’ transaction record.

DocuSign

$4.5B IPO · 2018

Entered Series B+Now $9.7BLegal

Sansan

$1.2B IPO · 2019

Entered SeedNow $1.7BFintech

Freee

$852M IPO · 2019

Entered Series B+Now $1.0BFintech

Portfolio analysis

Where Recruit Strategic Partners’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 58 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA24
Japan20
India3
Thailand3
Australia2
China2
Germany1
Singapore1
Sweden1
UK1

By sectorCount

Fintech14
Enterprise Software11
Education7
Media7
Marketing5
Jobs Recruitment3
Real Estate3
Wellness Beauty3
Energy2
Event Tech2
Fashion2
Health2

By stage enteredCount

Series A22
Series B+21
Seed14

By growth stageCount

Early Growth22
Breakout Stage19
Late Growth16

Portfolio market map

Inside Recruit Strategic Partners’ portfolio.

The 55 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 58 tracked.

Transportation · Unicorn

Ardent Capital

Thailand

Portfolio founders

Where Recruit Strategic Partners’ portfolio founders come from.

69 founders across the 58 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States31
Japan17
India7
Thailand2
United Kingdom2
Chile1
Germany1
Netherlands1
Peru1

UniversityCount

University of California, Berkeley5
University of Texas at Austin5
Keio University4
Harvard Business School3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
Amity University Noida1
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani1
Carnegie Mellon University1

Previous companyCount

Alphabet | Google3
Citrus3
Microsoft3
PayU3
AT&T2
BNP Paribas2
Deloitte2
Excite2
Kearney2
LookSmart2

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Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.