Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, Tier IV, Drivezy. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Yamaha Motor Co.,, startups are often financed by UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Y Combinator, White Unicorn Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Tokyo Century. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tokyo Century, Total Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers.
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Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Joyride | $5M | 12 Mar 2024 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
RIOS | $13M | 05 Mar 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
River | $40M | 06 Feb 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | ||
Skipperi | $8M | 07 Feb 2023 | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden | ||
Tier IV | $110M | 20 Jul 2022 | Chiyoda, Japan | ||
Wassha | $10M | 12 Jun 2022 | Tanzania | ||
Paps | $4M | 19 Jan 2022 | Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal | ||
Paps | $1M | 02 Jan 2021 | Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal | ||
Wassha | $9M | 08 Nov 2019 | Tanzania |
– Advanced Farm Technologies, Inc., developers of robotic technology for farmers, announced it has completed a Series B investment round raising $25 million to support the company’s growth in strawberry harvesting and the adaptation of its technology to apple harvesting.
– The Series B funding round was led by Catapult Ventures and included all the Series A investors: Kubota Corporation, Yamaha Motor Corporation, and Impact Ventures.
– Designed to work alongside manual harvest crews, the Advanced Farm TX Robotic Strawberry Harvester automatically senses and picks red, ripe fruit from in-soil strawberry beds with gentle, food-grade gripper technology.
– The purpose-built machine consists of multiple, rugged robots able to withstand the rigors of outdoor, in-soil conditions with sophisticated computer vision and machine learning technology to navigate fields and harvest fruit autonomously up to 24 hours a day.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Joyride | $5M | 12 Mar 2024 | Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
RIOS | $13M | 05 Mar 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
River | $40M | 06 Feb 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | ||
Skipperi | $8M | 07 Feb 2023 | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden | ||
Tier IV | $110M | 20 Jul 2022 | Chiyoda, Japan | ||
Wassha | $10M | 12 Jun 2022 | Tanzania | ||
Paps | $4M | 19 Jan 2022 | Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal | ||
Paps | $1M | 02 Jan 2021 | Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal | ||
Wassha | $9M | 08 Nov 2019 | Tanzania |
