Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment

Total investments

27

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

1.17

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyB2BFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareDigital MarketingMarketing

Summary

In 2000 was created Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Minato. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. This Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Retail. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mercari, BizReach, Yoriso.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment, startups are often financed by Globis Capital Partners, Global Brain Corporation, GMO VenturePartners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rakuten, Link and Motivation, Global Brain Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tokyo University of Science, SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.17
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Internet (4)
  • Health Care (4)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Financial Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (26)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
24M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
52
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CADDi 05 Jul 2023 Manufacturing Late Stage Venture 107M Chiyoda, Japan
31 Mar 2020 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Late Stage Venture 12M Japan, Chiyoda

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