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Mizuho Securities Principal Investment

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$65M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.41
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Medical
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Genetics
Summary

Mizuho Securities Principal Investment is the famous VC, which was founded in 2005.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as FinTech, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Robot Fund, Frequency Therapeutics.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Mizuho Securities Principal Investment, startups are often financed by U.S. Department of Defense, Taiwania Capital, Korea Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TechAccel Ventures LLC, Taiwania Capital, Sompo Holdings.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased 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.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

aptpod

Information Technology
Internet
$900K09 Mar 2021 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

C4 Therapeutics

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$150M16 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Frequency Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$62M23 Jul 2019 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Robot Fund

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$910K02 Jun 2018 Chiyoda, Japan
News
Suono Bio Raises $8.5M in Series A Funding

– Suono Bio, Inc. is a biotech company based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
– The company raised $8.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Axil Capital and Mizuho Securities Principal Investment with participation from Taiwania Capital and other investors.
– The new funding will be used to advance its lead programs in inflammatory bowel disease as well as expansion of its pipeline.

Suono Bio, Inc. Announces Oversubscribed Series A Funding Round Led by Axil Capital and Mizuho Securities Principal Investment

– Suono Bio, Inc. has raised an $8.5m Series A financing led by Axil Capital and Mizuho Securities Principal Investment, with participation by Taiwania Capital and other investors.
– Suono Bio will utilize the funds to advance its lead programs in inflammatory bowel disease as well as expansion of its pipeline.
– The company leverages technology developed in the laboratory of Institute Professor Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to facilitate rapid, local administration of therapeutics to treat serious diseases.
– The company was founded by Professor Langer, Professor Giovanni Traverso, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Carl Schoellhammer.

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Total investments 7
Average round size 65M
Rounds per year 0.41
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

aptpod

Information Technology
Internet
$900K09 Mar 2021 Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

C4 Therapeutics

Health Diagnostics
Medical
Therapeutics
$150M16 Jun 2020 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Frequency Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Medical
$62M23 Jul 2019 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Robot Fund

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$910K02 Jun 2018 Chiyoda, Japan
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