Nomura

Total investments

62

Average round size

90M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

0.63

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

16

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareSecurityBlockchainEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Nomura appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1925. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Nomura, startups are often financed by Walden Venture Capital, Translink Capital, SPiCE VC. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Translink Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UBS, Societe Generale, Natixis.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Nomura works on 33 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Nomura is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Besides them, we counted 16 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, Soundhound, R3. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
62
Lead investments
10
Exits
16
Rounds per year
0.63
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Finance (11)
  • Financial Services (11)
  • Blockchain (7)
  • Energy (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • India (18)
  • Canada (1)
  • Japan (16)
  • Cayman Islands (1)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
132M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.29
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cogent Labs 23 May 2019 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Early Stage Venture 11M Japan, Chiyoda
08 Feb 2017 Seed 773K China, Zhejiang, Shangcheng District
Omakase 23 May 2024 Early Stage Venture Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan
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