KUSABI
KUSABI, an independent venture capital, establishes its first fund with a total investment of 10 billion yen
Three venture capitalists from top tier VC gathered. We welcomed multiple LPs, mainly institutional investors, and closed with a fund total of 10 billion yen, which is top class among domestic independent VC No. 1 funds.
We are pleased to announce that KUSABI No. 1 Fund (head office: Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has reached 10 billion yen. We have already made decisions/executed investments in 21 promising startups (as of February 7, 2023), mainly for seed and early stage lead investments.
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 Three top-tier VCs (Kenyuki Nagai, Junya Yoshida, and Yuki Watanabe), who have been good rivals and comrades for nearly 10 years, have established KUSABI as an equal partnership.
Mission of KUSABI
Improving national power by creating companies with a market capitalization of 1 trillion yen
Building an ecosystem comparable to that of Silicon Valley
Laying the groundwork and foundation for the evolution of the VC industry Investment policy
Investment targets: Mainly lead investment projects in the seed and early stages. Any industry.
Investment amount: Investment amount per company is 20 million to 500 million yen
Time to decision is 1 week to 2 months, adopting a speedy
decision-making structure
Aggressive investment at a pace of 10 to 20 projects per year for the entire fund
Active hands-on support after investment
Future prospects
Holding accelerator programs (proactive creation of entrepreneurial opportunities and discovery of entrepreneurs): KUSABI operates its own accelerator program. Details will be announced at a later date. Aggressive Fund Formation and Investment : Based on our strategic investment plan, we will continue to actively form funds and invest in promising startups. KUSABI creates an industry from scratch and plans to evolve into a vertically integrated VC that can support 0→1→10→100, from cradle to unicorn and beyond.
Nihonbashi Kabutocho Neighborhood Startup Ecosystem Construction : Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd., which is based in Nihonbashi Kabutocho, which has a history as a )
https://kusabi.fund)Overview of KUSABI
Representative partner: Kenyuki Nagai, Junya Yoshida, Yuki Watanabe Website: https://kusabi.fund
Inquiries regarding this matter
Email: contact@kusabi.fund
Details about this release:
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