Total investments

4

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

2

Rounds per year

0.08

Follow on index

0.50

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsInternet of ThingsAdvanced MaterialsIndustrial Automation

Summary

FANUC is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1956.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Preferred Networks

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the FANUC, startups are often financed by Toyota Motor Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Tekfen Ventures, Mizuho Corporate Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toyota Motor Corporation, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Mitsui & Co.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
4
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
0.08
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Robotics (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Internet of Things (3)
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • Artificial Intelligence (3)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (3)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
950M
Group Appearance index
0.50
Strategy success index
0.75

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