Sumitomo Corporation
126
19M
106
1.20
21
0.14
16
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1919 was created Sumitomo Corporation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spring Tide, Carrier IQ, Terramera. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Software. 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.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Sumitomo Corporation works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Sumitomo Corporation the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sumitomo Corporation, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Eyal Gura, eshbol. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Meritech Capital Partners, Xura, The Norinchukin Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Iron Mountain, DFJ, Crosslink Capital.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 126
- Lead investments
- 21
- Exits
- 16
- Rounds per year
- 1.20
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (22)
- Software (20)
- E-Commerce (20)
- Internet (19)
- Energy (12) Show 157 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (28)
- Japan (55)
- Taiwan (1)
- Germany (1)
- Israel (6) Show 18 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 73M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.78
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.58
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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