SMBC Venture Capital
smbc-vc.co.jp Direct investor
SMBC Venture Capital is a Japanese venture capital firm and a member of the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. It invests in companies across a wide range of industries and stages, from seed and early stage to later stage.
SMBC Venture Capital is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in IT, ライフサイエンス, サービス and 製造・テクノロジー.
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Sectors
- IT, ライフサイエンス, サービス, 製造・テクノロジー, その他
- Founded
- 2005
Team, as SMBC Venture Capital publishes it
- Katsutoshi Matsushita 執行役員 投資営業第一部・投資営業第二部・投資営業第四部担当
- Tetsuji Nakano 投資営業第一部長
- Yoshitsugu Owada 投資営業第一部
- Yuta Watanabe 投資営業第一部
- Shingo Yamauchi 投資営業第二部長
- Tatsuya Kaneko 投資営業第二部
- Shota Kamimura 投資営業第二部
- Nodoka Nose 投資営業第二部
- Ichiro Kodama 常務執行役員 投資営業第三部担当
- Masakazu Komahashi 投資営業第三部長
- Satoshi Yamamura 投資営業第三部 部付部長
- Hayato Okano 投資営業第三部
Names and roles exactly as listed on smbc-vc.co.jp. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page SMBC Venture Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.smbc-vc.co.jp/name, is_investor, layer, thesis_quote, description, status, confidence
- https://www.smbc-vc.co.jp/about/type, hq_country, hq_city, founded
- https://www.smbc-vc.co.jp/portfolio/stage_min, stage_max, sectors
- https://www.smbc-vc.co.jp/team/people
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