Universal Materials Incubator

Total investments

27

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

3.00

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInformation TechnologySalesInformation ServicesManufacturingBusiness IntelligenceChemicalAdvanced MaterialsAgricultureRecycling

Summary

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Universal Materials Incubator, startups are often financed by Washington Research Foundation., Sustainable Conversion Ventures, OS Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Juroku Bank, Japan Finance Corporation, Casdin Capital.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Information Services. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Arzeda.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
27
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.00
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Sales (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Chemical (3)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (22)
  • United States (3)
  • New Zealand (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
52K
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CellFiber 09 Nov 2023 Biotechnology, Medical Device, Clinical Trials Early Stage Venture 7M Chiyoda, Japan
NOS 27 Nov 2014 Information Technology, Education, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 602K Guangdong Province, Futian District, China
Tsubame BHB 01 Jan 2020 Sales Seed Chiyoda, Japan

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