UTokyo IPC, Keio Innovation Initiative and Innovations and Future Creation have contributed to a $79.7m series A that increased the Tokyo spinout's total funding to about $100m.

Synspective, a Japan-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite spinout of University of Tokyo, has raised ¥8.67bn ($79.7m) in a series A round featuring UTokyo Innovation Platform (IPC) and Keio Innovation Initiative (KII).
Innovations and Future Creation, a VC fund affiliated with Tokyo Institute of Technology, also participated int the round. UTokyo IPC and KII are the respective venture funds of University of Tokyo and Keio University.
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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.