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What does Sony Innovation Fund invest in?
Sony Innovation Fund invests most often at Venture and Series A (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Bioimaging, Smart Factory and Therapy.
Sony Innovation Fund highlights
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29 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $3.8M
What they do
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $250K – $10M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- BioimagingSmart FactoryTherapy
- Based in
- Tokyo, Japan
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first142 appearances
- 2026
23 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
24 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
HKHirotoshi KorenagaDirectoriForm ADV
KHKazuhito HadanoRepresentative DirectoriForm ADV
NHNaoya HoriiDirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 19 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$135Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
4+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- SONY Ventures Corporation
- SEC number
- CRD 321945