Tokyo Gas

Total investments

18

Average round size

80M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.13

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

2

Areas of investment
AutomotiveInternetLife ScienceInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergyEnergy EfficiencyOil and GasGreenTechSales Automation

Summary

Tokyo Gas is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1885. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Energy Efficiency. 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 Enechange. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Tokyo Gas, startups are often financed by Toyota Motor Corporation, Toppan Printing, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sumitomo Corporation, Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., SK Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mitsubishi Research Institute.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.13
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Energy (6)
  • Renewable Energy (5)
  • Energy Efficiency (4)
  • GreenTech (3)
  • Oil and Gas (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Japan (12)
  • United States (1)
  • Vietnam (2)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
335M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
11
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
enechain 26 Apr 2024 Marketing, Energy, Service Industry, Oil and Gas Early Stage Venture 54M Minato, Japan
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