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Recruit Strategic Partners

Corporate, Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · Tokyo, Japan

#457 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 3% of investors worldwide

Corporate venture arm of Recruit Holdings

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58 Portfolio companies+39% in 5 years
9 Unicorns
1 Decacorns
65 Investments
Jun 2020 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

Recruit Strategic Partners’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Recruit Strategic Partners still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Recruit Strategic Partners, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 NoomUnicorn · Health · USA $3.7B
  2. 2 PodiumUnicorn · Marketing · USA $3.0B
  3. 3 ZenBusinessUnicorn · Marketing · USA $1.7B
  4. 4 ShipBobUnicorn · Transportation · USA $1.0B
  5. 5 OpenUnicorn · Fintech · India $1.0B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Recruit Strategic Partners has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · 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 $11BLegal
Sansan
$1.2B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $1.6BFintech
ShipRocket
$184M IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.2BMarketing
Freee
$852M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $1.1BFintech
03 · 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
  1. USA28
  2. Japan22
  3. India3
  4. Thailand3
  5. Australia2
  6. China2
  7. Germany1
  8. Singapore1
  9. Sweden1
  10. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software14
  2. Fintech14
  3. Education8
  4. Marketing8
  5. Media8
  6. Jobs Recruitment4
  7. Real Estate3
  8. Wellness Beauty3
  9. Energy2
  10. Event Tech2
  11. Fashion2
  12. Health2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A22
  2. Series B+21
  3. Seed14
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth25
  2. Breakout Stage21
  3. Late Growth17
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Recruit Strategic Partners’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 58 tracked.

BlockFi
Fintech
Noom
Health · Unicorn
$3.7B
DocuSign
Legal · Decacorn
$11B
Kabbage
Fintech
$800M
ShipRocket
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.2B
Podium
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.0B
ShipBob
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.0B
Open
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.0B
ZenBusiness
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.7B
CloudBeds
Travel
$600M
Freee
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Blacklane
Transportation
$550M
Treatwell
Wellness Beauty
$38M
Conversica
Marketing
$155M
Red Blind
Fashion
$400M
Sansan
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.6B
Zazzle
Fashion
$120M
FishBrain
Food
$119M
Directly
Jobs Recruitment
$44M
Life is Tech
Education
$62M
Simpl
Fintech
$160M
99designs
Marketing
$40M
Hometeam
Health
$20M
NODE
Real Estate
$64M
Paymate
Fintech
$100M
Wovn Technologies
Enterprise Software
$111M
BitFlyer
Fintech
$108M
Gengo
Education
$27M
FLENS
Education
$98M
Ossia
Telecom
$40M
Steady
Fintech
$60M
LeadGenius
Education
$12M
Dispatch
Event Tech
$48M
Element
Fintech
$48M
Exchange
Fintech
$33M
Ardent Capital
Fintech
Space Market
Real Estate
$17M
CareGuardian
Legal
fitmob
USA
$200K
Brickwork
Media
$20M
Xica
Enterprise Software
$18M
Crowdo
Fintech
WePow
Education
$12M
V-cube Japan
Media
$40M
Muzy
USA
$18M
Loyyal
Marketing
$4.8M
Fishtree
Media
$12M
Wanderlust
Travel
$3.1M
Zirtual
Jobs Recruitment
$8.0M
Richcompany
Media
$430K
ZIGExN
Jobs Recruitment
$259M
Splume
Japan
Wongnai
Media
$200K
KPI Solutions
Japan
SkimaTalk
Education
$400K
Curvegrid
Fintech
Labit
Japan
MediWeb
Media
Ardent Capital
Thailand
Alignable
Media
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Recruit Strategic Partners’ portfolio founders come from.

76 founders across the 64 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
  1. United States33
  2. Japan19
  3. India7
  4. Thailand2
  5. United Kingdom2
  6. Chile1
  7. Germany1
  8. Netherlands1
  9. Peru1
  10. United Arab Emirates1
UniversityCount
  1. University of California, Berkeley5
  2. University of Texas at Austin5
  3. Keio University4
  4. Harvard Business School3
  5. Stanford University2
  6. Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
  7. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
  8. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
  9. Amity University Noida1
  10. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani1
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google3
  2. AT&T3
  3. Citrus3
  4. Microsoft3
  5. PayU3
  6. BNP Paribas2
  7. Deloitte2
  8. Excite2
  9. Kearney2
  10. LookSmart2
06 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,186 companies $2.5T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $2.9T portfolio
Kima Ventures
Venture Capital · Paris
#1,049 rank 830 companies $85B portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,188 companies $4.4T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio