Toyota Motor Corporation

Total investments

38

Average round size

272M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

0.44

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

6

Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyCar SharingArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsAutonomous VehiclesRide Sharing

Summary

Toyota Motor Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1937. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The average startup value when the investment from Toyota Motor Corporation is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Toyota Motor Corporation performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, GrabTaxi, Preferred Networks Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Ride Sharing, Mobile.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Toyota Motor Corporation, startups are often financed by SoftBank Investment Advisers, SOSV, Mirai Creation Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SPARX Group - Overview, Mirai Creation Fund, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NAXOS Capital Partners, Mitsui & Co, Asset Plus Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
7
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.44
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Transportation (14)
  • Automotive (9)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (8)
  • Software (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (5)
  • United States (14)
  • China (4)
  • Japan (14)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5B
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
32
Avg. multiplicator
1.80
Strategy success index
0.90

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