Sony
66
477M
50
0.85
8
0.23
17
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1946 was created Sony, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.
The current fund was established by Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka. We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.
The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Sony performs on 23 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Sony, startups are often financed by Greylock Partners, Cisco, Texas Instruments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cisco, Texas Instruments, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Greylock Partners, Texas Instruments, Samsung NEXT.
For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Video, Machine Learning. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CoWare, ArrayComm, SIRIUS PLUS
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 66
- Lead investments
- 8
- Exits
- 17
- Rounds per year
- 0.85
- Follow on index
- 0.23
- Investments by industry
- Software (19)
- Internet (9)
- Artificial Intelligence (7)
- Video (7)
- Security (6) Show 107 more
- Investments by region
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- Israel (1)
- United States (30)
- Japan (25)
- China (1)
- India (1) Show 3 more
- Peak activity year
- 2000
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 607M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.83
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.19
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belliwelli | 10 Mar 2021 | Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food | Seed | 1M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
| Mestastop Solutions | 22 Sep 2020 | Biotechnology, Life Science | Seed | 0 | Karnataka, India, Bengaluru |
| Qrio Inc. | 12 Dec 2014 | Security | Seed | 3M | Chiyoda, Japan |
| Sakana AI | 16 Jan 2024 | Information Technology | Seed | 30M | Tokyo, Kantō, Japan |
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