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Daiwa SMBC Capital

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Electronics
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Biopharma
  • Biotechnology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$5M01 Feb 2012 Chiyoda

100e.com

Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Education
Language Learning
Software
Video Conferencing
$8M15 Oct 2008 Beijing

NexWave Solutions

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Marketplace
Software
$5M15 May 2007 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Total investments 7
Average round size 24M
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$5M01 Feb 2012 Chiyoda

100e.com

Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Education
Language Learning
Software
Video Conferencing
$8M15 Oct 2008 Beijing

NexWave Solutions

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Marketplace
Software
$5M15 May 2007 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Embedded Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
iOS
Software
$46M12 Feb 2007 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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