Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

Total investments

12

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

2

Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyManufacturingBankingBitcoinCrowdfundingEnergySolar

Summary

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2002. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Tokyo.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Apps, Peer to Peer. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kyash, bitFlyer For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, startups are often financed by Venture Labo Investment Co.,Ltd, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, SCB Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mizuho Financial Group, NTT Data, JAFCO Japan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toppan Printing, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (4)
  • Banking (4)
  • FinTech (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
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Investments by region
  • Malaysia (1)
  • Philippines (2)
  • Japan (7)
  • Canada (1)
  • Vietnam (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
157M
Group Appearance index
0.50
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kyash 14 Dec 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments, Banking, Credit Cards Early Stage Venture 9M Chiyoda, Japan
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