Fund focus: Foreign LPs creep into Japan VC
Japan’s Dimension has closed its first fund since spinning out from Dream Incubator, more than doubling its prior vintage and tracking increased interest among regional institutional investors
It was at last year’s AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum in Japan that Noriyuki Ito (pictured), an investor and business producer at local VC firm Dimension, began to notice international LPs circling...
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