SMBC Venture Capital

SMBC Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The company was established in Asia in Japan. The main department of described VC is located in the Chuo.

Opposing the other organizations, this SMBC Venture Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. When the investment is from SMBC Venture Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Biotechnology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Base, GROOVE X, BizReach. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the SMBC Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Nissay Capital, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Nippon Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are YJ Capital, NEC Capital Solutions, Mitsui Sumitomo Insuarance Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SBI Investment, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, DBJ Capital.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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