Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley

Total investments

39

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

4.33

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.26

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
TransportationSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareBig DataRoboticsManufacturingAgTechAgricultureIndustrial Automation

Summary

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Hiro Saijou. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Autonomous Vehicles, Medical Device. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a 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 PrecisionHawk, Advanced Farm Technologies, Abundant Robotics The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, startups are often financed by Innovate Indiana Fund, Bob Young, Union Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Verizon Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, Material Impact Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Verizon Ventures, Third Point Ventures, Syngenta Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
9
Rounds per year
4.33
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Robotics (13)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • AgTech (7)
  • Software (7)
  • Health Care (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (29)
  • France (1)
  • Canada (4)
  • Australia (3)
  • Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.92

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Range Energy 29 Nov 2022 Transportation, Manufacturing Seed 8M United States, California, Mountain View
The Yield 11 May 2020 Business/Productivity Software, Electronic Equipment and Instruments, Other Agriculture, Information Technology, Internet of Things, AgTech Early Stage Venture 8M New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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