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Shimizu Corporation

Founders Kisuke Shimizu

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.05
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet of Things
  • Space Travel
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • GPU
Summary

Shimizu Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1803. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Synspective Inc., Edgematrix. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Computer, Artificial Intelligence. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Shimizu Corporation, startups are often financed by Michael Tso, Kyocera Corporation, Jonathan Epstein. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UTokyo Innovation Platform, Tokyo Century, Sumitomo Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by World Innovation Lab (WiL), Toshiba Corporation, Sony.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mellow Japan

Food and Beverage
$7M28 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Edgematrix

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Internet of Things
Software
$9M18 Mar 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Edgematrix

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Internet of Things
Software
$8M06 Aug 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Synspective

Computer
$79M26 Jul 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Ispace Technologies

Manufacturing
Navigation
Robotics
Space Travel
Sustainability
$90M13 Dec 2017 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 11
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.05
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mellow Japan

Food and Beverage
$7M28 Jun 2022 Chiyoda, Japan

Edgematrix

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Internet of Things
Software
$9M18 Mar 2021 Chiyoda, Japan

Edgematrix

Artificial Intelligence
GPU
Internet of Things
Software
$8M06 Aug 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Synspective

Computer
$79M26 Jul 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

Ispace Technologies

Manufacturing
Navigation
Robotics
Space Travel
Sustainability
$90M13 Dec 2017 Chiyoda, Japan
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