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SBI Investment

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Total investments 358
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 275
Rounds per year 12.79
Lead investments 52
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 30
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • FinTech
Summary

SBI Investment is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1999. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Japan. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Minato.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Yello Mobile, 9f Group, wefox Group (wefox & ONE). The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from SBI Investment is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SBI Investment, startups are often financed by Eight Roads Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Incubate Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Global Brain Corporation, JAFCO Japan, Dentsu. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Brain Corporation, UTokyo Innovation Platform, Sony Innovation Fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OPTEMO

Information Technology
Sales
Software
$2M17 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Pliant

$9M16 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Wiz Freight

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$12M04 Jan 2024 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Owners Co

Professional Services
Service Industry
$10M29 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Oxford Quantum Circuits

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$100M27 Nov 2023 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

SecureNavi

$4M15 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

TapNow

Social Network
$1M16 Oct 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

HAKKI AFRICA

Finance
Financial Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$527K09 Oct 2023 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
News
Exosystems Raises $3.9M in Series A Funding

– Exosystems is a Seoul, South Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital healthcare company and a member of Born2Global Centre.
– The company raised USD 3.9m in Series A funding.
– Backers included SBI Investment, Laguna Investment, and Korea Technology Finance Corporation.
– The new investment will be used to expand clinical & technical capabilities to further develop its technology and overseas business.

Japan’s B2B ordering and supply platform CADDi raises $73 million Series B funding

– CADDi, a B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, raised $73m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain.
– Six new investors also joined the round including Arena Holdings, DST Global, Minerva Growth Partners, Tybourne Capital Management, JAFCO Group and SBI Investment.
– The post-money valuation is estimated at $450m.
– The funding proceeds will be used for accelerating digital transformation of the platform, hiring and expanding to global markets.

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Total investments 358
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 12.79
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 52
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 30
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OPTEMO

Information Technology
Sales
Software
$2M17 Jan 2024 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Pliant

$9M16 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Wiz Freight

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$12M04 Jan 2024 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Owners Co

Professional Services
Service Industry
$10M29 Nov 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Oxford Quantum Circuits

Biotechnology
Health Care
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
$100M27 Nov 2023 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

SecureNavi

$4M15 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

MyDearest

Telecommunications
Virtual Reality
Virtualization
$10M07 Nov 2023 Chiyoda, Japan

TapNow

Social Network
$1M16 Oct 2023 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

HAKKI AFRICA

Finance
Financial Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$527K09 Oct 2023 Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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