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Sony Innovation Fund
Corporate VC · India · Asia Pacific
Sony Innovation Fund is the venture investing arm of Sony Group, managing several investment vehicles funded by Sony or jointly established with partners. It invests in technology-driven startups and connects them to Sony's technical, business and partner network.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsSony Innovation Fund lists 177 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 17 funding rounds, 7 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 47% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Healthcare & Biotech (14%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 56% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Global Brain, Globis Capital Partners and Spiral Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Sony Innovation Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Sony Innovation Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 16 companies; its own site lists 177. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 47% |
| Series B | 13% |
| Growth | 7% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 2 |
| '26 | 14 | 5 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 170 companies |
| Recent activity | 97th | 15 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 13th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 96th | 11 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Global Brain | 16 |
| Globis Capital Partners | 10 |
| Spiral Capital | 9 |
| Coral Capital | 7 |
| Incubate Fund | 7 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 7 |
| NTT DOCOMO Ventures | 6 |
| STRIVE | 6 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17498%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company32%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Sony Innovation Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Sony Innovation Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 5 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 14 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Sony Innovation Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Sony Innovation Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
177 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2D Photonics designs, develops and manufactures next-generation photonic circuits for telecoms and datacoms. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| 3DC develops and manufactures advanced battery materials and technologies, including Graphene MesoSponge, a next-generation carbon material | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells a product called Skeepon, which helps protect plants from high temperatures and droughts. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Actioneer provides AI agents that finish customer tasks across calls, channels and days | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Activ Surgical develops and provides real-time surgical intelligence for surgeons and platforms | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AdInte develops and manufactures IoT hardware terminals and provides services to retail and manufacturing clients using data from these terminals to understand consumer behavior | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Adrich provides IoT connected ecommerce technology to help consumer brands understand consumer behavior and offer smart refill programs. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Agility Robotics designs and deploys humanoid robots for industrial automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides AI-based software for medical diagnosis, particularly for gastrointestinal cancer, to assist doctors in their diagnosis. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ALGO ARTIS provides planning optimization services using AI to support decision-making for companies | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Anzu connects game developers with brand and performance advertisers for non-cannibalizing monetization, while delivering programmatic, full-funnel ad solutions and formats across platforms and screens. | GamingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Arkose Labs provides a platform to decide which AI agents to trust and stop fraud | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides digital olfaction solutions, including sensors and software for analyzing and visualizing smells. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Bastion provides stablecoin infrastructure for enterprises | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Botrista provides automated beverage solutions using artificial intelligence and drink automation technology. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. develops and produces compact actuator solutions using Shape Memory Alloy technology for consumer electronic products. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Camgraphic designs, develops and manufactures next-generation photonic circuits for telecoms and datacoms | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| CarePal provides healthcare financing solutions, including crowdfunding, lending, and health assurance, to make healthcare more accessible and affordable in India. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carry1st publishes and distributes mobile games in Africa and the Middle East. | GamingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Caulis provides services such as fraud alert, grid data KYC, and phishing countermeasures to financial institutions and companies. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- sonyinnovationfund.com
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 177
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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