Ajinomoto

Total investments

12

Average round size

61M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.12

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.25

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyConsumer GoodsRetailSalesFood and BeverageFood ProcessingManufacturingAdvanced MaterialsOrganic FoodAgriculture

Summary

Ajinomoto appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1925. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Ajinomoto, startups are often financed by Tana Africa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL), SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NTT Data.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Organic Food, Food Processing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Promasidor Holdings, MycoTechnology. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

When the investment is from Ajinomoto the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.12
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (5)
  • Food Processing (3)
  • Sales (3)
  • Agriculture (2)
  • Biotechnology (2)
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Investments by region
  • South Africa (1)
  • Japan (7)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
137M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
TechMagic K.K. 27 Mar 2024 Late Stage Venture 22M Chiyoda, Japan
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