Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Denso

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 27
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$80M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 0.36
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Transportation
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Vehicles
Summary

In 1949 was created Denso, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Kariya.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight THINCI, Ridecell, Peloton Technology. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Information Technology.

Opposing the other organizations, this Denso works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Denso is more than 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2004. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Denso, startups are often financed by Khosla Ventures, Western Technology Investment, Sand Hill Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toyota Motor Corporation, Sand Hill Angels, Penske Automotive Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NordicNinja VC, NGP Capital, Mitsui & Co.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of Denso:
Typical Co-investors
Denso is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
There are no funds here. If we find new data, we will add it here.
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Denso:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
ADC New York, New York, United States
Benefit Street Partners New York, New York, United States
Canada media fund Canada, Ontario, Toronto
HSCM Bermuda Bermuda, Devonshire, Hamilton
Hudson Capital Group Florida, Fort Lauderdale, United States
Hutton Collins Partners England, London, United Kingdom
Interfase Capital Partners Austin, Texas, United States
Intuitive Investments Group England, London, United Kingdom
Janus Henderson Investors England, London, United Kingdom
Jiashi Tong Guang Beijing, Beijing, China
Kuanhua Investment Group China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Moji Fengyun (Beijing) Software Technology Development Co. Beijing, Beijing, China
Peppers & Rogers Connecticut, Stamford, United States
Pulsar Energy Capital Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Rusnano Sistema Sicar -
Sinolink Securities Chengdu, China, Sichuan
Target Hill Capital -
UC Investments -
Wuhan Mutual Entertainment Cultural Industry Investment Management China, Hubei, Wuhan
Zima Innovation & Invest Management China, Guangdong, Zhuhai

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seurat Technologies

Laser
Manufacturing
Robotics
$99M30 Oct 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$21M16 Mar 2022 California, United States

Seurat Technologies

Laser
Manufacturing
Robotics
$41M22 Jun 2021 Mountain View, California, United States

Ridecell

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Car Sharing
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$45M02 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Agriculture
Farming
$7M26 Nov 2019 Japan

Metawave

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Wireless
05 Nov 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bond Mobility

Apps
Rental
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$22M01 May 2019 Zurich, Switzerland

Ridecell

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Car Sharing
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$28M13 Nov 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Consumer
Information Technology
Service Industry
$65M05 Sep 2018 California, United States

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Denso?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 27
Average round size 80M
Rounds per year 0.36
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seurat Technologies

Laser
Manufacturing
Robotics
$99M30 Oct 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$21M16 Mar 2022 California, United States

Seurat Technologies

Laser
Manufacturing
Robotics
$41M22 Jun 2021 Mountain View, California, United States

Ridecell

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Car Sharing
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$45M02 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Agriculture
Farming
$7M26 Nov 2019 Japan

Metawave

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Wireless
05 Nov 2019 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bond Mobility

Apps
Rental
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$22M01 May 2019 Zurich, Switzerland

Ridecell

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Car Sharing
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$28M13 Nov 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Consumer
Information Technology
Service Industry
$65M05 Sep 2018 California, United States
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: