Ken Yasunaga presented at “Townhall meeting” and talked about “Path to Successful Globalization for Startups in Japan”. According to the survey during the event, 88% of audience agreed that Japanese start-up should aim for global market, and 64% think those start-ups should go global from the day one. This BornGlobal TOWN HALL MEETING is organized by Astoria Consulting, a renowned organizer of PE/VC LP event, and supported by LINK-J, Pfizer, J-startup and others.

Link to Born Global event site

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Allen Miner, our Founding Partner, addressed about the strange points and improvement measure in the Japanese Digital Transformation (DX) during the keynote discussion titled “The upcoming digital transformation”. CEATEC is the Japanese equivalent of CES and the largest IT and electronics exhibition and conference in Asia. CEATEC 2020 was held online between Oct.22-23.

Link to the Nikkei Cross Trend website

NTT Communications hosted "NTT Communications Digital Forum 2020" on 10/14 and the contents are available online. Our Founding Partner, Takuya Oikawa is the Technical Advisor of NTT Communications and delivered two special keynote speeches at this event titling "Next stage of DX accelerated by 'New Normal' ~ The future of data platform interwoven by software and infrastructure ~" and "The importance of product management".

Link to NTT Communications site

Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA) hosted a zoom event titled “Let’s Go Global Fireside Chat ~WHILL’s challenge toward the global market~. ​

Following opening remarks by Ken Yasunaga, JVCA’s Global Committee chairman, Mr. Satoshi Sugie, CEO/WHILL explained his story of success and failure for the global expansion including the very first several steps for market entry, building and managing international team, etc.

Allen Miner and Ken Yasunaga presented at the panel discussion to talk about “Japanese Venture Capital: the story post COVID-19” at Super Return Virtual (Hong Kong). Allen and Ken talked about what’s hot in the growing Japanese VC market.