NTT Finance

Total investments

29

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.74

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareSaaSManufacturingMarketplaceSemiconductorConsumer ElectronicsElectronicsTelecommunicationsWeb Hosting

Summary

NTT Finance is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1985. 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 5-6 partakers. Despite the NTT Finance, startups are often financed by Dell Technologies Capital, Trellis Capital, Tenaya Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Wellington Partners, Vertex Ventures Israel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Trellis Capital, Tenaya Capital.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DocuSign, Lastline, Chelsio Communications. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Network Security, Telecommunications.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This NTT Finance works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from NTT Finance is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2005.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
4
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.74
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Internet (5)
  • Electronics (4)
  • Telecommunications (4)
  • Web Hosting (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • Japan (6)
  • Israel (2)
  • France (2)
  • Canada (2)
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Peak activity year
2008
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
273M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
5.43
Strategy success index
0.20

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