Mitsui & Co

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Total investments

185

Average round size

47M

Portfolio companies

155

Rounds per year

2.40

Lead investments

42

Follow on index

0.16

Exits

45

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Mitsui & Co appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1947. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tokyo.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DocuSign, Mercari, Preferred Networks

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Mitsui & Co is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Mitsui & Co performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Mitsui & Co, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Mitsui Global Investment, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SMBC Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Mitsui Global Investment, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
185
Lead investments
42
Exits
45
Rounds per year
2.40
Follow on index
0.16
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • Health Care (28)
  • Information Technology (24)
  • Biotechnology (18)
  • Internet (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (63)
  • Japan (48)
  • Ecuador (2)
  • Ireland (2)
  • India (10)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
198M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.50
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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