Daiwa Corporate Investment

Total investments

149

Average round size

72M

Portfolio companies

108

Rounds per year

3.63

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

17

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareAppsManufacturingMarketingTask Management

Summary

Daiwa Corporate Investment appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1983. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Daiwa Corporate Investment, startups are often financed by 500 Kobe, Samurai Incubate, Sagamore Bioventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, Energy & Environment Investment, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, Seven Dreamers Laboratories, Oneteam. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Medical.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Daiwa Corporate Investment works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
149
Lead investments
13
Exits
17
Rounds per year
3.63
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (18)
  • Software (18)
  • Manufacturing (17)
  • Internet (16)
  • Task Management (16)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (146)
  • France (1)
  • Singapore (1)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
11M
Group Appearance index
0.17
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.01

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CellFiber 12 May 2022 Biotechnology, Medical Device, Clinical Trials Early Stage Venture 3M Chiyoda, Japan
MagicPrice 06 Oct 2017 E-Commerce, B2B, Travel, Hotel Seed 728K Chiyoda, Japan

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