Investment
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For $12.8 Million: Yahoo Japan Acquires Decopic Creator Community Factory
Acquisitions are relatively rare in Japan’s tech startup scene, but today Yahoo Japan caused a splash when the country’s biggest web company announced it acquired Tokyo-based Community …
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Gree Starts Investment On East/South East Asian Start-ups
Japan’s social game networking service giant Gree announced today November 2 that it had established a new invest subsidiary Gree Ventures. Gree Ventures is going to form GV-I Investment …
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Itochu Technology Ventures Invests $2 Million In Ooyala's $22 Million Series D Round
As TechCrunch reported yesterday, video publishing platform Ooyala from the US plans to bolster its activities in Asia after raising a $22 million series D round (the company is now funded with $42 …
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Japanese Social Marketplace Flutterscape Gets $300,000 Seed Money
A Japanese Internet startup that not only has international ambitions but that’s also able to receive a substantial amount of seed money is a very, very rare beast. But today, we can report …
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Social Application Forum: Made-in-Japan apps for the world
The recession, almost no IPOs, structural shortcomings, not enough hot startups to invest in: The Japanese venture capital industry is in a critical situation. The current state of affairs forces …
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Japan's IVP Invests $1.5 million In Chinese Social Gaming Company Rekoo
One of Japan’s most famous independent venture capital firms, Infinity Venture Partners (IVP), seems to have a big interest in the social gaming space and China. IVP already has a number of …
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Japan's CyberAgent Sets Up $22.7 Million Fund For Startups In East Asia
The more you talk with Japanese VCs and entrepreneurs these days, the more you hear “China” as the next target for investing money or establishing a subsidiary. Now Japanese web behemoth …
