Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Type

Other

Status

Active

Total investments

139

Average round size

238M

Portfolio companies

118

Rounds per year

4.96

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

22

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1996. 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 standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, startups are often financed by Eight Roads Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Nissay Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mizuho Bank, SMBC Venture Capital, Toyota Motor Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment, Tybourne Capital Management.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Solar, Blockchain. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fnality International, Paidy, Sansan. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan.

Comparing to the other companies, this Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
139
Lead investments
17
Exits
22
Rounds per year
4.96
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (26)
  • Finance (23)
  • Energy (18)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Manufacturing (12)
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Investments by region
  • India (17)
  • United States (16)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Japan (75)
  • Singapore (5)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
10

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
267M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
0.16
Strategy success index
0.80

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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
Baseconnect Japan 10 Feb 2020 Content, Task Management, Database Early Stage Venture 16M Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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