MS&AD Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

111

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

81

Rounds per year

18.50

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInsuranceInsurTech

Summary

In 2018 was created MS&AD Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Skopenow, Clearedin, Socotra.

This organization was formed by Jon Soberg. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the MS&AD Ventures, startups are often financed by Avalon Ventures, signals Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 8VC, Western Technology Investment, FinTLV Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nationwide Insurance, 8VC.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from MS&AD Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
InsurtechFintechClimate techCloud/InfrastructureHealthcare Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
111
Lead investments
11
Exits
2
Rounds per year
18.50
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Insurance (28)
  • FinTech (28)
  • Financial Services (28)
  • InsurTech (27)
  • Software (25)
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Investments by region
  • United States (60)
  • Germany (9)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • Singapore (15)
  • Israel (6)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
189M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bounti Labs 21 Sep 2022 Seed 10M United States, California, San Jose
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