Toyota Tsusho

Total investments

39

Average round size

39M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

0.51

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

5

Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsInternetTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesAppsManufacturingSolar

Summary

Toyota Tsusho is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1948. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Nagoya.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 66 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Toyota Tsusho is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual 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 Toyota Tsusho works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Toyota Tsusho, startups are often financed by Lightbox, Beenos Partners, Voyager Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VestedWorld, W. R. Berkley, Volvo Cars Tech Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Mirai Creation Fund.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ChargePoint, Zipline, Seven Seas Technologies Group. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Chemical Engineering, Environmental Consulting.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
11
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.51
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Automotive (8)
  • Apps (5)
  • Internet (5)
  • Manufacturing (5)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (19)
  • United States (5)
  • Australia (1)
  • India (3)
  • Israel (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
281M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.44
Strategy success index
0.50

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