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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$28M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 1.06
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 3
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Robotics
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • FinTech
Summary

TIS appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1971. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the TIS, startups are often financed by SMBC Venture Capital, JAFCO Japan, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBI Investment, T-Gaia, Sony Innovation Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Fujiyo Ishiguro, Sumitomo Corporation, Shinkin Central Bank.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Aino Indonesia, WebPartner, Cinnamon. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Online Portals.

Comparing to the other companies, this TIS performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2000. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sharing Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Retail
$3M18 Apr 2024 Minato, Japan

Credify

Blockchain
E-Commerce
FinTech
InsurTech
Lending
Micro Lending
Reputation
Software
$1M22 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Pixmoving

3D Printing
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Industrial Automation
Retail Technology
Robotics
Smart Building
Smart Cities
Vending and Concessions
$10M11 Jul 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Aino Indonesia

Information Technology
10 Jun 2022 Tebet, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Contour

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M19 Dec 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Credify

Blockchain
E-Commerce
FinTech
InsurTech
Lending
Micro Lending
Reputation
Software
$740K30 Nov 2020 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Entropica Labs

Quantum Computing
Software
$1M12 May 2020 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$2M27 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

BizteX

Cloud Infrastructure
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$5M20 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 56
Average round size 28M
Rounds per year 1.06
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sharing Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Retail
$3M18 Apr 2024 Minato, Japan

Credify

Blockchain
E-Commerce
FinTech
InsurTech
Lending
Micro Lending
Reputation
Software
$1M22 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Pixmoving

3D Printing
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Industrial Automation
Retail Technology
Robotics
Smart Building
Smart Cities
Vending and Concessions
$10M11 Jul 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Aino Indonesia

Information Technology
10 Jun 2022 Tebet, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Contour

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M19 Dec 2021 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Credify

Blockchain
E-Commerce
FinTech
InsurTech
Lending
Micro Lending
Reputation
Software
$740K30 Nov 2020 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Entropica Labs

Quantum Computing
Software
$1M12 May 2020 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Bonx

Sporting Goods
Sports
Wearables
$2M27 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan

BizteX

Cloud Infrastructure
Information Technology
Productivity Tools
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$5M20 Apr 2020 Chiyoda, Japan
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