World Innovation Lab (WiL)
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World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a US- and Japan-based venture capital firm that makes direct investments in growth-stage technology companies and also invests in venture capital funds. It supports portfolio companies' global expansion, with a particular focus on Japan, and works with corporate and government limited partners.
World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, at growth, in artificial Intelligence, B2B SaaS, fintech and insurtech.
“We invest in growth-stage companies that aspire to scale and enter new markets.”
— World Innovation Lab (WiL), own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Invests in
- US, Europe, Japan, Asia
- Sectors
- Artificial Intelligence, B2B SaaS, fintech, insurtech, automation and productivity, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools
Team, as World Innovation Lab (WiL) publishes it
- Gen Isayama General Partner & CEO
- Rob Theis General Partner & Chief Investment Officer
- Andy Cohen Partner
- Bill Burns Sr. Strategic Advisor
- Cheri Morohoshi Partner, Investor Relations
- Clifford Cohn Principal
- Daisuke Hara Sr. Director, Finance & Platform
- Hideki Wada Sr. Manager, IR and Finance
- Jean Shi Director, Corporate Innovation
- Joo-Lee Lim Chief Investment Officer, WiL Strategic Partners
- Jue Cheng Director, Finance
- Kai Takagi Sr. Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on wilab.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
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- https://wilab.com/approachtype, invests_in_geographies
- https://wilab.com/teampeople
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