Hitachi Ventures

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Chiyoda City, Japan

Total investments

32

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.50

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

8

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyNetwork SecurityCloud ComputingSemiconductorInternet of ThingsWirelessCommunication HardwarePet

Summary

In 1959 was created Hitachi, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2001. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Hitachi works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Enterprise Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Preferred Networks, eHitex, Sanrise. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 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.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Hitachi, startups are often financed by Weber Capital, Vulcan Capital, Toyota Motor Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Vulcan Capital, Time Warner. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weber Capital, Vulcan Capital, Verizon Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
3
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.50
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Semiconductor (5)
  • Internet of Things (5)
  • Wireless (4)
  • Internet (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Germany (2)
  • Japan (10)
  • France (1)
  • Israel (2)
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Peak activity year
2001
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
88M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.11
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Captura 12 Jan 2023 Environmental Consulting Early Stage Venture 12M United States, California, Pasadena
Magis Networks 22 Apr 2002 Semiconductor, Wireless, Communication Hardware Early Stage Venture 40M United States, California, San Diego
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