Honda Motor

Total investments

26

Average round size

325M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

0.34

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

6

Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareRoboticsManufacturingMedicalAutonomous VehiclesEnergyRenewable EnergyWearables

Summary

In 1948 was created Honda Motor, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Honda Motor, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, Mayfield Fund, Venture Investors. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are General Motors, Verizon Wireless, Toyota USA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tallwood Venture Capital, Ridgewood Capital, Mayfield Fund.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, Catalytic Solutions, Mcity. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. When the investment is from Honda Motor the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Honda Motor works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
3
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.34
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (10)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (7)
  • Software (7)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
  • Manufacturing (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • China (1)
  • Singapore (1)
  • Japan (6)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3B
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
0.06
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

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