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DENSO Ventures

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 6
Lead investments 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Transportation
  • Fleet Management
  • Internet of Things
Summary

DENSO Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Fleet Management. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline quadric.io

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the DENSO Ventures, startups are often financed by Sun Mountain Capital, Stage 1 Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Uncork Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, Sun Mountain Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Binhui Biotech

Biotechnology
18 Apr 2022 Wuhan, Hubei, China

Dellfer

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
$8M19 Oct 2021 California, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$15M14 May 2019 California, United States

Active Scaler

Artificial Intelligence
Fleet Management
Transportation
$3M05 Jan 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States
News
Blaize, leading AI Solution for Edge Computing, Announces $71M Series D Financing to Further Accelerate Growth

– Blaize announced the close of a $71m Series D round of funding.
Franklin Templeton, a new investor, and Temasek, an existing investor, led the round, along with participation from DENSO and other new and existing investors.
– The funding will support acceleration of the product roadmap to meet growing demand for higher performance, lower power, lower cost AI hardware and transformational AI software solutions in automotive, smart retail, smart city and industrial markets.
– In 2020, Blaize successfully released and built a multi-year pipeline for the first generation Blaize AI edge computing hardware products based on the groundbreaking Blaize GSP architecture, and the Blaize AI Studio end-to-end application lifecycle software platform.

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Total investments 6
Average round size 16M
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Binhui Biotech

Biotechnology
18 Apr 2022 Wuhan, Hubei, China

Dellfer

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
$8M19 Oct 2021 California, United States

quadric.io

Computer
Hardware
$15M14 May 2019 California, United States

Active Scaler

Artificial Intelligence
Fleet Management
Transportation
$3M05 Jan 2018 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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