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Murata Manufacturing

Founders Akira Murata

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 3
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Electronics
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Semiconductor
  • Software
Summary

Murata Manufacturing is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1944. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Kyoto. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Murata Manufacturing, startups are often financed by Blueprint Ventures, American River Ventures, L Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iRobot Corp, YASKAWA Electric Corporation, UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. This Murata Manufacturing works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Wearables. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WiSpry, Prevent Biometrics, Locix.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$38M14 Jun 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Xona Space Systems

GPS
Information Services
Navigation
Software
$19M08 May 2024 California, United States

VIE STYLE

Consumer Electronics
Machine Learning
Music
Wearables
$2M07 Mar 2024 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

3d Glass Solutions

Electronics
$12M01 Jul 2019 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Locix

Analytics
Computer
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Sensor
Software
06 Sep 2018 California, United States

Fitness
Health Care
Sporting Goods
$3M04 May 2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Arctic Sand Technologies

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$19M25 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

Tohoku Magnet Institute

Packaging Services
$5M20 Nov 2015 Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$38M14 Jun 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Xona Space Systems

GPS
Information Services
Navigation
Software
$19M08 May 2024 California, United States

VIE STYLE

Consumer Electronics
Machine Learning
Music
Wearables
$2M07 Mar 2024 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

3d Glass Solutions

Electronics
$12M01 Jul 2019 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Locix

Analytics
Computer
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Sensor
Software
06 Sep 2018 California, United States

Fitness
Health Care
Sporting Goods
$3M04 May 2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Arctic Sand Technologies

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$19M25 Feb 2016 Massachusetts, United States

Tohoku Magnet Institute

Packaging Services
$5M20 Nov 2015 Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

WiSpry

Electronics
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Mobile
Semiconductor
Wireless
$10M06 Apr 2009 Irvine, California, United States
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