The IT conglomerate’s $64m CVC subsidiary has made its first impact investment in microfinance service Gojo & Company.
Taiho’s Japanese university spinout-focused CVC arm’s capital injection came five months after its US sister unit got an additional $100m.
PanasonicWell appointed Christie Pitts to identify family-oriented investment, partnership and M&A opportunities.
Merck Group and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s MoU will entail M Ventures helping grow South Korea’s ecosystem.
In association with Tokyo Metro Government, the consulting firm will match corporate investors and startups based in the Japanese capital.
Having invested in 16 companies and scored two exits, the firm’s new investment vehicle will continue to back edtech startups.
UB Ventures’ new fund secured capital from its parent company, Wistron’s Wise Cap subsidiary, banks and other investors.
The CICC Porsche (Shanghai) Venture Capital fund, whose size is reportedly $118m, will target energy and connected vehicles in China.
Kuroneko Innovation Fund 2 has $51.5m in capital to continue to invest in strategic areas like cleantech, spacetech, fintech, robotics and AI.
CVC veteran Takuya Hosomura, who spent a combined eight years at Rakuten Capital and Salesforce Ventures, joined Global Brain as a partner.
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