SoftBank Telecom Corp

Total investments

7

Average round size

336M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.88

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.43

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetRetailInformation TechnologyRoboticsCloud Data ServicesMarketplaceDronesConsumer ElectronicsShopping

Summary

SoftBank Telecom Corp appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the SoftBank Telecom Corp, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, Steadview Capital, Ratan Tata. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global Management, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alibaba Group, RNT Capital, Vanguard.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Ride Sharing, Apps. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Tokopedia, Snapdeal, Olacabs.

The real fund results show that this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The typical startup value when the investment from SoftBank Telecom Corp is more than 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
3
Rounds per year
0.88
Follow on index
0.43
Investments by industry
  • Internet (6)
  • Marketplace (5)
  • Shopping (5)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Retail (4)
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Investments by region
  • India (5)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5B
Group Appearance index
0.57
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
5x5 Technologies 08 Aug 2018 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cloud Data Services, Computer Vision, Drones, Telecommunications Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Florida, Saint Petersburg
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