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Potential Investor Materials
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Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Summary of Terms
• Team
• Investment Themes
• Lead Investor
• Track Record
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Introduction
• Neoteny 4 ("Neoteny") is a new fund being formed by a company controlled by
Joichi Ito ("Joi"), director of the MIT Media Lab.
• Neoteny will be focused on investing in primarily early stage technology
companies—largely sourced through Joi's extensive network including other
investors, previous portfolio company entrepreneurs, Media Lab alumni and the
broader academic network.
• Neoteny will be opportunistic in its investing, but will focus on IT (including
B2B/enterprise, consumer, hardware/IoT, machine learning/AI) and life
sciences/biotech (including traditional and non-traditional therapeutics and
diagnostics).
• Neoteny and Joi will use visibility of trends to identify opportunity areas and a
broad network of business, academic and investor contacts to support portfolio
companies. Having focused on this stage and sector for over 20 years, Joi has
developed an extensive network for both dealflow, follow-on funding and exits.
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Summary of Terms
Fund Size ■ $30 - $50 million
■ 2% management fee
Fee / Carry ■ 20% carry
■ Target investments of $2410 million per deal
Equity Check Size ■ Lower investments tickets on an opportunistic and limited basis in case of high growth profile
and follow-on potential
Ownership ■ Passive and active minority
■ Customary active minority rights
Governance ■ Board representation where investment size warrants
Geographies ■ Global (including Asia)
Stage ■ Seed to Series A and opportunistic later-stage deals
Subsectors ■ In-line with the broader consumer trends that are impacting the industry
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Team
Joichi "Joi" Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab and a professor of the practice in Media Arts and
Sciences at MIT.
Ito has been recognized for his work in both for profit and non-profit organizations in the development
of the Internet having started and run numerous companies including PSINet Japan, Infoseek Japan,
Digital Garage and many others. Ito was an early stage investor in numerous companies, including
Flickr, littleBits, Formlabs, Kickstarter, and Twitter. Ito has served on the boards of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), The Open Source Initiative, Creative
Commons, The Mozilla Foundation and other non-profits which helped coordinate the development of
the Internet.
Ito has been investing professionally since 2000 when he established Neoteny, an investment firm in Tokyo. Ito is chair of the
board of PureTech Health, an advanced, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company listed on the London Stock Exchange. He
serves on the board of The New York Times Company. He also serves as a strategic advisor to the Sony Corporation where he
served as a board member until June 2017. He is an Independent Senior Advisor to the Minister for Financial Services.
In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2013, he received an honorary
from The New School in New York City, and in 2015 an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Tufts
University. In 2014, Ito was inducted into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame; also In 2014, he was one of the recipients of
the Golden Plate award from the Academy of Achievement. In 2017, he received the IRI Medal. He is co-author with Jeff
Howe of Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (Grand Central Publishing, December, 2016).
Ito is a member of the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Visiting Professor of Law from
Practice at the Harvard Law School.
Adam Mullinax brings over 8 years of experience investing in the private equity and venture capital,
with a broad exposure to both B2B and B2C businesses. He brings strong expertise in sourcing,
diligencing and structuring new investments, as well as working directly with portfolio companies. He
is currently a Vice President with Ambrosia Investments, an investment firm focused on the food &
agriculture sectors and previously worked at Beechwood Capital, Arlon Capital Partners, as well as
Moelis & Company and JP Morgan. B.S. in Finance from Leonard N. Stem School of Business at
New York University.
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Investment Themes
• Artificial intelligence / machine learning
• Convergence of healthcare & technology
• Internet of Things / cloud connectivity
• Wearables
• Virtual reality / augmented reality
• Cybersecurity
• Online gaming
• Advanced design and manufacturing
• Consumer Internet
• Autonomous vehicles and systems
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Lead Investor
• Ncoteny has strong support from a number of key investors and successful
entrepreneurs in the industry.
• In particular, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, has committed [$5-10
million] as an anchor investor in Neoteny and will lend his expertise and
experience to help Neoteny find investors, source deals, diligence investment
opportunities and add value to portfolio companies.
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Track Record
• Neoteny (N1) was established in 2000 in the heyday of incubators that were trading a large
multiple of their net asset value and was structured as a company. We were funded by
primarily by VC JH Whitney and raised 38M. The venture was ultimately not financially
successful, but helped develop a global network of investors and entrepreneurs.
• Neoteny Labs (N2) is a $5 million fund that was established in 2010. N2 was focused on
investing in USA and Singapore with a special arrangement with the Singapore
government to take advantage of a convertible note structure designed to decrease risk and
leverage investments in Singapore-based companies. Viki, a company based in Singapore,
was acquired by Rakuten and returned the fund's paid in principle and a return to investors.
Other exits include SeatMe (acquired by Yelp), Lanyrd (acquired by Eventbrite) and
SocialWire (acquired by Rakuten). The fund continues to hold several strong portfolio
companies, such as littleBits, Formlabs, Blackstorm Labs, HelloSign and a number of other
growing companies.
• Neoteny 3 is a $9 million fund that was established in 2015. It invested up to $250
thousand per deal as either a co-investor or an angel investor (did not lead deals). Neoteny
3 is nearing the end of its investment period, but has reserved some capital for follow-on
investments. There have not yet been any substantial exits to date, but many of the
portfolio companies are continuing to grow and are attracting additional investments at
higher valuations.
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