Beyond Next Ventures
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Beyond Next Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in deep-tech startups, primarily in Japan and India. It provides funding and support for early-stage companies, including incubation and acceleration programs.
Beyond Next Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in deep tech, MedTech & Healthcare, drug Discovery & Biotechnology and agriculture & Food. USD 340 million under management, as it reports.
“We invest in seed-stage deep-tech startups in Japan and India.”
— Beyond Next Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Japan, India
- Sectors
- deep tech, MedTech & Healthcare, Drug Discovery & Biotechnology, Agriculture & Food, Digital & Space, Climate Tech
- Founded
- 2014
- Assets under management
- USD 340 million
Team, as Beyond Next Ventures publishes it
- Tsuyoshi Ito Founder CEO / Managing Partner
- Kengo Ueha Managing Director / General Partner
- Akito Arima Executive Officer / Partner / Investment Gr. / Open Innovation Manager
- Katsuya Hashizume Executive Officer / Partner / Investment Manager
- Jay Krishnan Partner & Head of India Investment Groups（India）
- Yuichiro Sano Principal / India Fund
- Hiroyuki Kageyama Principal / Investment Gr.
- Keigo Yato Ph.D. / Principal /Investment Gr.
- Masahiro Goto Principal / Investment Gr.
- Shota Sagiyama Executive Officer / Talent Partner / HR Strategy Manager
- Takehiko Sawabe Director / Investment Gr.
- Masaya Eshita Executive Officer / Fund & Corporate Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on beyondnextventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 26 co-investors found.
- Global Brain 7 shared companies: jpn.com, elevation-space.com, sakana-dream.com, rhinoflux.com…
- Sony Innovation Fund 4 shared companies: medfin.in, koalatech.co.jp, metcela.com, susmed.co.jp
- Z Venture Capital 2 shared companies: elevation-space.com, aillis.jp
- Spiral Capital, Inc. 2 shared companies: sakana-dream.com, koalatech.co.jp
- i-nest capital,inc. 2 shared companies: aillis.jp, photoelectronsoul.com
- Axilor Ventures 1 shared company: medfin.in
- Shorooq Partners 1 shared company: impactguru.com
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures 1 shared company: elevation-space.com
- Seraphim Space 1 shared company: elevation-space.com
- Ankur Capital 1 shared company: bighaat.com
and 16 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Beyond Next Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://beyondnextventures.com/name, is_investor, type, description
- https://beyondnextventures.com/investment/layer, sectors
- https://beyondnextventures.com/about/hq_country, hq_city, founded, aum
- https://beyondnextventures.com/portfolio/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://beyondnextventures.com/team/people
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