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Mitsui & Co

Founders Takashi Masuda Tatsuzo Minakami

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Total investments 184
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 154
Rounds per year 2.39
Lead investments 41
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 45
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lokavant

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Risk Management
$8M03 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$34M14 Sep 2023 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Kyoto Fusioneering

Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
Retail
$91M16 May 2023 Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Optimus Technologies

Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Transportation
Waste Management
$17M23 Apr 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Optimus Technologies

Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Transportation
Waste Management
$17M18 Apr 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

JSW One

Construction
Consulting
Information Technology
$27M10 Apr 2023 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Koios Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$8M17 Feb 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Aktivolabs

Fitness
Health Care
Lifestyle
$10M14 Dec 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

The Mobility House

Electronics
Energy
Infrastructure
$60M04 Nov 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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Total investments 184
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 2.39
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 41
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 45
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lokavant

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Risk Management
$8M03 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

Bowtie Life Insurance Company

Insurance
$34M14 Sep 2023 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Kyoto Fusioneering

Manufacturing
Oil and Gas
Retail
$91M16 May 2023 Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Optimus Technologies

Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Transportation
Waste Management
$17M23 Apr 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Optimus Technologies

Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Transportation
Waste Management
$17M18 Apr 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

JSW One

Construction
Consulting
Information Technology
$27M10 Apr 2023 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Koios Medical

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Health Care
Machine Learning
Software
$8M17 Feb 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Aktivolabs

Fitness
Health Care
Lifestyle
$10M14 Dec 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

The Mobility House

Electronics
Energy
Infrastructure
$60M04 Nov 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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