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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

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Total investments 162
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$262M
Portfolio companies 140
Rounds per year 5.79
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 31
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Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Renewable 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$70M04 Sep 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Avita

Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$12M23 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$38M14 Jun 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Allganize

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$274K28 Nov 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Carbonplace

Financial Services
$45M08 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

HashPort

Blockchain
Consulting
Cryptocurrency
$8M20 Jan 2023 Minato, Chiba, Japan

BANCO

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M30 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Persefoni

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CleanTech
Enterprise Software
GreenTech
SaaS
Social Impact
Sustainability
$101M28 Oct 2021 Tempe, Arizona, United States
News
Allganize Raises $10M in Funding

– Allganize is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of NLP technology that allows enterprises to automate answering questions from a myriad of unstructured text documents.
– The company raised $10m in funding.
– The round was led by Atinum Investment, with participation from Stonebridge Ventures, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and existing investors.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s research and development, global expansion, and increase headcount in 2021.

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Total investments 162
Average round size 262M
Rounds per year 5.79
Peak activity year 2024
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 31
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sakana AI

Information Technology
$70M04 Sep 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Avita

Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
$12M23 Aug 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Asuene

Energy
Local
Renewable Energy
$38M14 Jun 2024 Chiyoda, Japan

Allganize

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$274K28 Nov 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Carbonplace

Financial Services
$45M08 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

HashPort

Blockchain
Consulting
Cryptocurrency
$8M20 Jan 2023 Minato, Chiba, Japan

BANCO

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$6M30 Aug 2022 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Persefoni

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CleanTech
Enterprise Software
GreenTech
SaaS
Social Impact
Sustainability
$101M28 Oct 2021 Tempe, Arizona, United States
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