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Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma

Founders Nagayo Sensai

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.46
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 2
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
  • Product Research
Summary

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1997. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Osaka.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, startups are often financed by WERU Investment, SMBC Venture Capital, Real Tech Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are tella, Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL), Nikon.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Biotechnology. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Edison Pharmaceuticals, Meltin MMI, Healios K.K. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AlphaNavi Pharma

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$8M05 Apr 2019 Kyoto Prefecture

Meltin MMI

Biotechnology
Health Care
Robotics
$18M17 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

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Total investments 11
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 0.46
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AlphaNavi Pharma

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$8M05 Apr 2019 Kyoto Prefecture

Meltin MMI

Biotechnology
Health Care
Robotics
$18M17 Oct 2018 Chiyoda, Japan
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