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Panasonic

Founders Konosuke Matsushita

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$70M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 0.25
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 6
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Semiconductor
  • Automotive
  • Health Care
  • Electronics
Summary

In 1918 was created Panasonic, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Kadoma. The venture was found in Asia in Japan.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Panasonic works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DigiLens, BlueFox.IO, Linkwiz We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Automotive, Semiconductor. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Panasonic, startups are often financed by Auriga Partners, InterWest Partners, In-Q-Tel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Idinvest Partners, Auriga Partners, Air Liquide ALIAD. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung Ventures, Continental, Western Technology Investment.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zene

Analytics
$3M08 Mar 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Linkwiz

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$8M18 Jun 2019 Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture

aveni

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$10M24 Oct 2017 France, Ile-de-France, France

BlueFox

Analytics
Big Data
Internet of Things
Outdoor Advertising
Retail Technology
Telecommunications
$7M14 Jun 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Drivemode

Automotive
Big Data
Internet
Internet of Things
Mobile
$6M23 Mar 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

DigiLens

Augmented Reality
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Virtual Reality
Wearables
$22M19 Jan 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Seven Dreamers Laboratories

Developer Tools
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Product Design
Robotics
$60M18 Nov 2016 Chiyoda

Tohoku Magnet Institute

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

Gogoro

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Last Mile Transportation
Transportation
$30M17 Nov 2015 New Taipei, Taiwan

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Total investments 27
Average round size 70M
Rounds per year 0.25
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zene

Analytics
$3M08 Mar 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Linkwiz

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software
$8M18 Jun 2019 Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture

aveni

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$10M24 Oct 2017 France, Ile-de-France, France

BlueFox

Analytics
Big Data
Internet of Things
Outdoor Advertising
Retail Technology
Telecommunications
$7M14 Jun 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Drivemode

Automotive
Big Data
Internet
Internet of Things
Mobile
$6M23 Mar 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

DigiLens

Augmented Reality
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Virtual Reality
Wearables
$22M19 Jan 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Seven Dreamers Laboratories

Developer Tools
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
Product Design
Robotics
$60M18 Nov 2016 Chiyoda

Tohoku Magnet Institute

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

Gogoro

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Last Mile Transportation
Transportation
$30M17 Nov 2015 New Taipei, Taiwan
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