Mizuho Corporate Bank

Summary

In 2002 was created Mizuho Corporate Bank, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Mizuho Corporate Bank, startups are often financed by YJ Capital, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Globis Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Japan Finance Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mitsui & Co. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rohto Pharmaceutical, Japan Finance Corporation, Dai-ichi Life.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Mizuho Corporate Bank works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2006. When the investment is from Mizuho Corporate Bank the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars.

The fund has specific favorite 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Elder Care, Solar. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Preferred Networks, First Solar, China Bank.