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SBI Group

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Total investments 119
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$58M
Portfolio companies 91
Rounds per year 4.76
Lead investments 33
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 14
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Banking
Summary

The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Opposing the other organizations, this SBI Group works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. When the investment is from SBI Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SBI Group, startups are often financed by SBI Ven Capital, East Ventures, Route 66 Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Magma Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by AddVentures by SCG, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lu.com, Ping An Healthcare Management, Rakuten Medical Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Bitcoin, Financial Services. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$1B04 Sep 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

DeepForest Technologies

$1M18 Jun 2024 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

HarvestX

Manufacturing
$3M20 Mar 2024 Bunkyo, Japan

Bluwhale

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Gaming
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
$7M11 Mar 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

BLOCKSMITH&Co

Blockchain
15 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Etaily

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Logistics
Warehousing
$17M14 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Zodia Custody

Asset Management
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
$39M27 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

BANCO

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M30 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

SolanaFM

Blockchain
Information Services
$4M26 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
News
Rakuten Medical Closes $166M in Series D Funding

– Rakuten Medical from San Mateo is developing and commercializing innovative oncology products for multiple indications.
– The company raised $166m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by General Catalyst with additional participation from existing investors, including Rakuten Group and SBI Group.
– The new investment will be used to advance ongoing trials of ASP-1929 in several oncologic indications and research and development of additional pipeline therapies being developed using the Illuminox™ platform.

Heartseed Raises $37 Million in Series C Funding to Accelerate Development of iPSC-derived Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure

– Heartseed, a Tokyo-based biotechnology company developing iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes for heart failure (HF), announced it has raised 4 Billion-yen (approx. $37 Million) at Series C round, bringing its total financial backing to 8.2 Billion yen (approx. $75 Million) since its foundation in 2015.
– New investors are UTokyo Innovation Platform Co. (UTokyo IPC), Medical Incubator Japan, Keio Innovation Initiative (KII), and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment. Among the existing investors, SBI Group, Nissay Capital, SMBC Capital, Medipal Holdings, and Itochu Chemical Frontier participated in this round.

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Total investments 119
Average round size 58M
Rounds per year 4.76
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 33
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$1B04 Sep 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

DeepForest Technologies

$1M18 Jun 2024 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

HarvestX

Manufacturing
$3M20 Mar 2024 Bunkyo, Japan

Bluwhale

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Gaming
Machine Learning
Media and Entertainment
$7M11 Mar 2024 Santa Clara, California, United States

BLOCKSMITH&Co

Blockchain
15 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Etaily

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Logistics
Warehousing
$17M14 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Zodia Custody

Asset Management
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
$39M27 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

BANCO

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M30 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

SolanaFM

Blockchain
Information Services
$4M26 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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