Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia

Total investments

22

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceFreight ServiceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareDigital MarketingAdvertising

Summary

In 2002 was created Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Central. The company was established in Asia in Hong Kong.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, startups are often financed by Openspace Ventures, DCM Ventures, China Merchants Innovation Investment Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yahoo! Japan, Vickers Venture Partners, Telkom Indonesia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Source Code Capital, DKSH, DCM Ventures.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CXA Group, aCommerce, Icontek. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Logistics, Internet.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
4
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Logistics (7)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Internet (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • China (10)
  • United States (3)
  • Singapore (1)
  • Thailand (2)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
160M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.17

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Latest deals

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