Investments
70Portfolio Exits
14Partners & Customers
10Latest DeNA News
Apr 3, 2023
Back in November, Nintendo and app developer DeNA announced its joint venture company called Nintendo Systems, which is meant to help reinforce Nintendo’s business and “create value-added services,” according to Nintendo’s Japanese website . Today, the companies officially launched the Nintendo Systems website. “Nintendo Systems was born in April 2023, led by a team of engineers from Nintendo and DeNA, to create a system that makes it easy to deliver Nintendo entertainment to consumers,” Nintendo and DeNA wrote in a message posted on the new Nintendo Systems website (loosely translated from Japanese to English). The eight-year-old partnership between Nintendo and DeNA dates back to 2015. The companies have worked on various titles together, such as Super Mario Run, Mario Kart Tour, Pokémon Masters and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, among others. “The technology surrounding the Internet is changing at a dizzying pace day by day and is becoming more complex. Under these circumstances, Nintendo Systems will leverage the relationship of trust between Nintendo and DeNA, which has been cultivated through a partnership of more than seven years, and use Nintendo’s originality and DeNA’s knowledge of technology as the driving force to create new innovations for the world,” the companies added. It’s not yet known what exactly the two companies are currently working on together. At this time, no games or software have been announced. TechCrunch reached out to Nintendo for comment. Nintendo’s Tetsuya Sasaki is the president of Nintendo Systems. In 1995, Sasaki joined the company as a software engineer for the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division. He is credited for his work on titles like The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Wii Sports and Mario Kart DS.
DeNA Investments
70 Investments
DeNA has made 70 investments. Their latest investment was in NEIGHBOR as part of their Seed VC on November 11, 2023.
DeNA Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/16/2023 | Seed VC | NEIGHBOR | $1.52M | Yes | 1 | |
5/22/2023 | Seed VC | Flickshot | $5.05M | Yes | F Ventures, Hirofumi Miki, Keizo Tsutsui, Ken Soga, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, mixi, Nobuhiro Ariyasu, Orso, Sang Kyung Toshishin, SEGA Sammy Holdings, Soleil Capitale Group, Tomohiro Takahashi, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and W Fund | 1 |
1/28/2023 | Seed VC | Tane | $8M | Yes | B Dash Ventures, DEEPCORE, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and XTech Ventures | 1 |
7/5/2022 | Corporate Minority - III | |||||
5/10/2022 | Corporate Minority |
Date | 11/16/2023 | 5/22/2023 | 1/28/2023 | 7/5/2022 | 5/10/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC | Seed VC | Seed VC | Corporate Minority - III | Corporate Minority |
Company | NEIGHBOR | Flickshot | Tane | ||
Amount | $1.52M | $5.05M | $8M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | F Ventures, Hirofumi Miki, Keizo Tsutsui, Ken Soga, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, mixi, Nobuhiro Ariyasu, Orso, Sang Kyung Toshishin, SEGA Sammy Holdings, Soleil Capitale Group, Tomohiro Takahashi, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and W Fund | B Dash Ventures, DEEPCORE, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and XTech Ventures | |||
Sources | 1 | 1 | 1 |
DeNA Portfolio Exits
14 Portfolio Exits
DeNA has 14 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Inkmonk on May 28, 2019.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5/28/2019 | Acquired | 4 | |||
2/7/2019 | Acquired | 2 | |||
1/15/2019 | Acquired - III | 1 | |||
DeNA Acquisitions
14 Acquisitions
DeNA acquired 14 companies. Their latest acquisition was Nippon Tect Systems on July 02, 2021.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7/2/2021 | Other | Acquired | 1 | |||
7/2/2021 | Other | Acquired | 2 | |||
1/29/2019 | Other | Corporate Majority | 4 | |||
4/6/2015 | ||||||
1/1/2015 | Other |
Date | 7/2/2021 | 7/2/2021 | 1/29/2019 | 4/6/2015 | 1/1/2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investment Stage | Other | Other | Other | Other | |
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Total Funding | |||||
Note | Acquired | Acquired | Corporate Majority | ||
Sources | 1 | 2 | 4 |
DeNA Partners & Customers
10 Partners and customers
DeNA has 10 strategic partners and customers. DeNA recently partnered with Bandai Namco on April 4, 2023.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4/14/2023 | Partner | Japan | Bandai Namco and DeNA to release Takt Op Symphony for Western audiences Bandai Namco and mobile company DeNA will partner once more to produce an English-language version of the mobile game based on the Takt Op multimedia project , Takt Op . | 1 | |
11/24/2022 | Partner | Japan | 1 | ||
11/8/2022 | Partner | Japan | 1 | ||
6/18/2019 | Partner | ||||
2/6/2019 | Partner |
Date | 4/14/2023 | 11/24/2022 | 11/8/2022 | 6/18/2019 | 2/6/2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | Japan | Japan | Japan | ||
News Snippet | Bandai Namco and DeNA to release Takt Op Symphony for Western audiences Bandai Namco and mobile company DeNA will partner once more to produce an English-language version of the mobile game based on the Takt Op multimedia project , Takt Op . | ||||
Sources | 1 | 1 | 1 |
DeNA Team
6 Team Members
DeNA has 6 team members, including former Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Shintaro Asako.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Shintaro Asako | Medicinova, Inc., KPMG, and Arthur Andersen | Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer | Former |
Name | Shintaro Asako | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Work History | Medicinova, Inc., KPMG, and Arthur Andersen | ||||
Title | Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer | ||||
Status | Former |
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