In 2016 was created Sony Innovation Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tokyo. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. Sony Innovation Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Sony Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Sparkland Capital, Sierra Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBI Investment, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Total Access Fund, Fission Ventures, Strawberry Creek Ventures.
We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, SaaS. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AI Medical Service, Sight Machine, Sliver.tv. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.
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Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Pictoria | $2M | 04 Apr 2024 | Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||
Jabali | $5M | 06 Mar 2024 | Los Altos, California, United States | ||
Zyla Health | $4M | 30 Nov 2023 | New Delhi, Delhi, India | ||
SiLC Technologies | $25M | 15 Nov 2023 | El Monte, California, United States | ||
Verity Studios | $11M | 11 Jul 2023 | Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | ||
Anzu.io | $28M | 27 Jun 2023 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel | ||
FLUX Japan | $40M | 14 Jun 2023 | Chiyoda, Japan | ||
Leadoptik | $5M | 22 May 2023 | Milpitas, California, United States | ||
Lokal | $15M | 25 Apr 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
– Truepic, a digital image verification software provider, has raised $26m in a Series B funding round.
– The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and joined by Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund, Hearst Ventures and individuals from Stone Point Capital.
– The company has raised $36m since its 2015 inception.
– Botrista Technology, a San Francisco CA-based robot-barista company, raised $10M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Purestone Capital and La Kaffa International with participation from Sony Innovation Fund, Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ: MIDD), and PIDC.
– The company intends to use the funds to further ramp up deployment operations to roll-out the DrinkBot nationally.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Pictoria | $2M | 04 Apr 2024 | Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||
Jabali | $5M | 06 Mar 2024 | Los Altos, California, United States | ||
Zyla Health | $4M | 30 Nov 2023 | New Delhi, Delhi, India | ||
SiLC Technologies | $25M | 15 Nov 2023 | El Monte, California, United States | ||
Verity Studios | $11M | 11 Jul 2023 | Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | ||
Anzu.io | $28M | 27 Jun 2023 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel | ||
FLUX Japan | $40M | 14 Jun 2023 | Chiyoda, Japan | ||
Leadoptik | $5M | 22 May 2023 | Milpitas, California, United States | ||
Lokal | $15M | 25 Apr 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
