{"id":6284,"date":"2009-10-29T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:12:52","slug":"kddi-commits-to-invest-ivp-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/kddi-commits-to-invest-ivp-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"KDDI Commits To Invest On IVP Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6287\" title=\"KDDI's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kddi_logo.gif\" alt=\"KDDI's Logo\" width=\"137\" height=\"50\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Logo of Infinity Venture Partners\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ivp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"45\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, Tokyo-based independent venture capital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityventures.com\/eng\/\">Infinity Venture Partners (IVP) LLP<\/a> announced that Japan&#8217;s second largest telecommunication company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/english\/\">KDDI<\/a> has committed to invest on IVP Fund B, L.P.\u00a0\u00a0 The fund has fundraised from Japanese tech ventures, and is investing in mobile start-up companies in Japan and Mainland China.\u00a0 (Refer to these Asiajin article <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/04\/ivp-launches-new-fund-raised-by-web20-celebrities-in-japan-china\/\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/ivp-fund-invests-in-chinas-largest-mobile-sns\/\">[2]<\/a> for more details about IVP Fund.) \u00a0 It&#8217;s worth about USD14.6M as of Oct. 16th, and KDDI will have the second largest share of the fund in the amount of investment when the company redeem the commitment.\u00a0\u00a0 KDDI&#8217;s amount of the investment is not disclosed.<br \/>\nKDDI invested in the country&#8217;s second largest social network service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gree.co.jp\">GREE[J]<\/a> in 2006, and intends to be more aggressive to invest in potential application developers and service providers in the world&#8217;s mobile industry.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturecapital.typepad.jp\/ivp\/2009\/10\/ivp-fundkddi-37.html\">Press Release: KDDI Invests IVP Fund[J]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Tokyo-based independent venture capital Infinity Venture Partners (IVP) LLP announced that Japan&#8217;s second largest telecommunication company KDDI has committed to invest on IVP Fund B, L.P.\u00a0\u00a0 The fund has fundraised from Japanese tech ventures, and is investing in mobile start-up companies in Japan and Mainland China.\u00a0 (Refer to these Asiajin article [1][2] for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/kddi-commits-to-invest-ivp-fund\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KDDI Commits To Invest On IVP Fund<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24],"tags":[1673,1942],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-infinity-venture-partners","tag-kddi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}