Rakuten portfolio

Rakuten has 4 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Type: Investor.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 4.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 1 of 2.

Capital in their rounds: $110M.

Latest deal: ShopBack · Mar 12, 2020.

About this page

It led 1 of the 2 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is ShopBack's $75M Series B+ round in March 2020, alongside Temasek, EV Growth, EDBI and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Commerce and retail (3) and Sales and marketing (2). It has co-invested with Temasek, EDBI and EV Growth.

What Rakuten invests in

Commerce and retail · 3 · 75%
Sales and marketing · 2 · 50%
Gaming · 1 · 25%
Data and analytics · 1 · 25%
Robotics and hardware · 1 · 25%
Consumer and social · 1 · 25%
Media and content · 1 · 25%

How Rakuten invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	2 100%	$110M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2019	1 50%	$35M
2020	1 50%	$75M

Rakuten portfolio companies

SShopBack$75MSeries B+ · Mar 2020
FFever$35MSeries B+ · Aug 2019
QQuEra Computingbacker
AAWLbacker

Company	Round with Rakuten	Total raised	Latest raise
SShopBack Sales and marketing	Mar 12, 2020 Series B+ · $75M	$265M	Dec 8, 2022 Series B+
FFever Sales and marketing	Aug 4, 2019 Series B+ · $35M · lead	$432M	Sep 1, 2025 Seed
QQuEra Computing Robotics and hardware	backer	undisclosed	Sep 9, 2025 Series B+
AAWL Commerce and retail	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Commerce and retail).

How this is counted

Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Rakuten. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Rakuten, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/rakuten (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.