Shimizu Corporation

Total investments

11

Average round size

22M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.05

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.18

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSupply Chain ManagementSoftwareInformation TechnologyRetail TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceAerospaceInternet of ThingsSpace TravelGPU

Summary

Shimizu Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1803. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Synspective Inc., Edgematrix. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Computer, Artificial Intelligence. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Shimizu Corporation, startups are often financed by Michael Tso, Kyocera Corporation, Jonathan Epstein. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UTokyo Innovation Platform, Tokyo Century, Sumitomo Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by World Innovation Lab (WiL), Toshiba Corporation, Sony.

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Analytics

Total investments
11
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.05
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Internet of Things (3)
  • Space Travel (2)
  • Artificial Intelligence (2)
  • Software (2)
  • GPU (2)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (11)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
98M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mellow Japan 28 Jun 2022 Food and Beverage Early Stage Venture 7M Chiyoda, Japan
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