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A decade of Kyushu deep tech, and the decade ahead. Our interview with @qb_capital 's Tsuyoshi Sakamoto @akarisaka_QBC 🎙️

🔬 How he raised ¥3.1B "from nothing"
🧪 "The best deals don't show up in a database"
🤝 The biggest challenge wasn't money https://t.co/Q8kN9518BC

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🚀 Genesia Ventures ( @Genesia_VC ) closes Fund IV at approx. JPY18B 🎉
New theme: "Asia Origin" 🌏

✅ A deliberate choice NOT to scale up
✅ A multiples-first fund strategy
✅ Four Asian hubs powering the next decade 🇯🇵🇮🇩🇻🇳🇮🇳 https://t.co/g2s7tiG8tZ

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🌱The more new businesses you launch, the more your talent flies away with them. The very proof of an incubator's success becomes the force that hollows out the organization—

How has QTnet's YOKA Pro team answered this structural dilemma after 7 years?🔑 https://t.co/LwtFvTGu5b

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🏢 Over 7 years, Japan's Kyushu-based telco @QTnet_jp has incubated and spun out three businesses: esports 🎮 / digital agency 🖥️ / AI 🤖

📌 Strategic returns, not financial
📌 ~90% of investments tied to partnership or M&A https://t.co/qWttjjPvsK

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🤖 Captivated by RoboCup. Won the world championship. Selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Shota Higuchi, founder of @CloserRobotics, is taking on an industry robots have avoided for years: Japan's "three-product" sector — food, cosmetics, pharma. https://t.co/JG0cNYcJvX

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⚡ Electrons inside move at 1/300th the speed of light. 🏭 The world's most advanced chip factories scrap up to 40% of their output.

The savior candidate? Graphene — a carbon film just one atom thin. 🔬 A 10-person team is taking on a 20-year-old wall. 💪 https://t.co/RkZFMifS6K

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📉 Japan's VC industry is facing a slow-motion crisis. But 🇯🇵 New fund "ain" is redesigning startup investing for the Japanese market👇

🔁 A VC-PE hybrid approach
🏭 Carve-outs: high hit rate, zero competition
💡 "Growth Secondary" — the third way https://t.co/0JOL95ksXa

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Try to make it transparent — it turns white.

A lone entrepreneur in Tsukuba has cracked a paradox that stumped the optical materials industry for years — using a 🌡️ lower-temp, lower-pressure process that a 🇺🇸 US rival couldn't solve with 💰 in funding. https://t.co/U6zAR3Kqsn

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🔬 Japan has world-class materials science — but most of it never leaves the lab. @NIMS_PR is trying to change that.

✨ EIR program: 60+ applicants, only 2 selected
📝 In-house patent attorneys for faster filings
🌏 Global expansion effort https://t.co/xzbv2vG9JP

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🔬 Tsukuba, Japan — 1 in 20 workers is a "researcher" 🧑‍🔬, patent filings among the nation's highest 📝. Potential? In a league of its own 🏆.

But 8 years of startup support later 😮, the story was nothing like we expected. https://t.co/cqZehS0vfR

See also: @TSUKUBA_CONNECT

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🇯🇵 Japan's deep tech can't go global — not because of weak technology, but weak structure.

🏫 @utokyo_ipc × @HakuhodoKoho launch "GATS"

🇺🇸 @activatefellows
🇬🇧 @imperialcollege
🇸🇬 @NUS_Enterprise

No equity💡No fees💡Led by NPOs & universities💡 https://t.co/uPjIh5tRuu

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"'Let's hang next month' almost never happens. 'Let's go tonight' is the real deal." — @OfficialFunNow CEO

🌏Operating across 6 markets in Asia
🇯🇵34% of Japan's visitors come from FunNow's user base
🏯Japan is still "only 10–15% tapped"

Playbook? https://t.co/RbO9tUDtUz

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🌏 Southeast Asian startups targeting Tokyo IPO — how realistic? @Genesia_VC GP Suzuki breaks down the realities in part 2:

🏦NASDAQ, SGX, IDX, TSE — Real trade-offs
🧑‍💼bottleneck: bilingual CFOs
🇯🇵Japan is attractive — but "entry point is invisible" https://t.co/4F4nnOV7Tx

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🌏 The rules of Southeast Asia investing have changed.
"The time machine strategy no longer works." — @Genesia_VC GP Takahiro Suzuki

After 15+ years on the ground across Indonesia, Vietnam & India, here's the new playbook. https://t.co/CRIQFIgSUI

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🇯🇵 Breaking into Japan isn't a language problem.

🤝 Nemawashi — align every stakeholder before the meeting
👥 Jinmyaku — who vouches for you is everything
🍻 Nomi-nication — deals get done after hours

Also: M&A opportunities & two-way growth with Japan. https://t.co/kPsGckx0ET

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🌏 @insigniavc bridging Southeast Asia and TSE.

🤖 An AI member on the investment committee — virtually no public precedent worldwide
🏷️ 5 portfolio companies selected for the TSE Asia Startup Hub
⏳ Japan takes patience — but rewards those who stay https://t.co/GiL62W12Nd

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🌏 東南アジア×東証をつなぐVC @insigniavc の戦略とは…

🤖 投資委員会にAIメンバーが席を占める——公開事例はほぼ存在しない先進的な取り組み
🏷️ 投資先5社が東証アジアスタートアップハブに採択
⏳ 日本市場は「忍耐」と「信頼」で制す https://t.co/LHvxvnGr3h

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🌏 @insigniavc bridging Southeast Asia and TSE.

🤖 An AI member on the investment committee — virtually no public precedent worldwide
🏷️ 5 portfolio companies selected for the TSE Asia Startup Hub
⏳ Japan takes patience — but rewards those who stay https://t.co/GiL62W12Nd

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🏢✖️🚀 Big Co. × Startup — Toshiba Tec's CVC lead shares the unfiltered reality.

📍 Why they don't invest with partnership as a prerequisite
📍 A candid take on Japan's startup ecosystem

💬 "We haven't hit a home run yet" — so why keep going for 10 yrs? https://t.co/3qE3bVyLPk

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Factory line measurement, bridge inspection reports——
😓2 workers measuring, hand-sketching damage spots…

3D.Core changes that👇

📷 Capture with camera
🤖 Auto-generates high-prec 3D, drawings, parts segmentation, reports
🔗 Link with NVIDIA simulator https://t.co/UwfNi29Sz6