Sony Innovation Fund
CVC
Tokyo, Japan
168
18M
127
21.00
16
0.24
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2016 was created Sony Innovation Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. Sony Innovation Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Sony Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Sparkland Capital, Sierra Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBI Investment, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Total Access Fund, Fission Ventures, Strawberry Creek Ventures.
We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, SaaS. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AI Medical Service, Sight Machine, Sliver.tv. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 168
- Lead investments
- 16
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 21.00
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Software (38)
- Health Care (25)
- Artificial Intelligence (23)
- Internet (17)
- Robotics (17) Show 202 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (57)
- Singapore (3)
- Japan (57)
- United Kingdom (16)
- Switzerland (6) Show 11 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 34M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
- Avg. company exit year
- 2
- Strategy success index
- 0.20
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asuene | 14 Jun 2024 | Local, Energy, Renewable Energy | Late Stage Venture | 38M | Chiyoda, Japan |
| SiLC Technologies | 15 Nov 2023 | 3D Technology, Semiconductor, Biometrics, Sensor | Early Stage Venture | 25M | United States, California, El Monte |
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