Sompo Holdings

Total investments

38

Average round size

79M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

2.71

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

2

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Sompo Holdings is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Exchanges, Medical Device. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Neurotrack, Noom, Genomelink.

The current fund was established by Kengo Sakurada.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Sompo Holdings, startups are often financed by Translink Capital, RRE Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Dai-ichi Life, iSGS Investment Works, WI Harper Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Translink Capital, Sequoia Capital, Scrum Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
11
Exits
2
Rounds per year
2.71
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (11)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Analytics (8)
  • Software (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • Japan (20)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Israel (2)
  • Kenya (2)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
842M
Group Appearance index
0.68
Avg. company exit year
17
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Health2Sync 06 Dec 2017 Software, Health Care, Medical Device, Hardware Early Stage Venture 6M New Taipei, Taiwan
MindQuake 15 Jan 2015 Education Seed Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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