Daiwa SMBC Capital

Total investments

7

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

7

Lead investments

2

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareCollaborationMarketplaceCloud ComputingConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsBiopharmaLanguage LearningVideo Conferencing

Summary

The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

Comparing to the other companies, this Daiwa SMBC Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Daiwa SMBC Capital, startups are often financed by iD TechVentures, Yasuda Enterprise Development, VenGrowth Asset Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wellington Partners, Vista Ventures, VenGrowth Asset Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VenGrowth Asset Management, TD Capital, Prism Venture Management.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FibroGen, Picsel Technologies, NexWave Solutions. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Semiconductor, Electronics. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Investments by industry
  • Software (3)
  • Electronics (2)
  • Consumer Electronics (2)
  • Biopharma (2)
  • Biotechnology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • China (1)
  • Japan (2)
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Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
39M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
2.03

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Picsel Technologies12 Feb 2007Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, iOS, Embedded SoftwareLate Stage Venture46MScotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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