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CLSA exits Japan parking lot operator to Advantage
CLSA exits Japan parking lot operator to Advantage

CLSA Capital Partners (CLSA CP) has agreed to sell Japanese coin-operated parking lot business Ecolocity to Advantage Partners for an undisclosed sum.

  • North Asia
  • 10 May 2023
Japan's SMBC, Incubate set up USD 200m Asia VC fund
Japan's SMBC, Incubate set up USD 200m Asia VC fund

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) has established a USD 200m growth and late-stage pan-Asian VC fund in partnership with Japan’s Incubate Fund, which will co-manage the vehicle.

  • North Asia
  • 10 May 2023
Japan VC: Global appetites
Japan VC: Global appetites

The relatively recent advent of sizeable VC funds and high-profile start-ups in Japan has exposed long-simmering ambitions to be more international. This could be a breakout moment

  • North Asia
  • 09 May 2023
Weekly digest - May 03 2023
Weekly digest - May 03 2023

  • Region
  • 03 May 2023
Fund focus: Globis doubles down on Japan VC thesis
Fund focus: Globis doubles down on Japan VC thesis

Having raised nearly twice as much for Fund VII as it did for Fund VI, Globis Capital Partners plans to back more portfolio companies through growth-stage rounds and help them realise global ambitions

  • North Asia
  • 03 May 2023
Fund focus: Advantage moves fast, scales up
Fund focus: Advantage moves fast, scales up

Japan’s Advantage Partners deployed Fund VI faster than expected and only some LPs wanting to delay commitments for budgetary reasons prevented a swift final close on Fund VII

  • North Asia
  • 03 May 2023
Japan's Marunouchi launches $1bn climate tech fund
Japan's Marunouchi launches $1bn climate tech fund

Japan-based Marunouchi Innovation Partners (MIP), a private equity manager controlled by Mitsubishi Corporation, has hit a first close of USD 400m on a climate tech fund. The overall target is USD 1bn.

  • North Asia
  • 03 May 2023
Advantage closes seventh Japan buyout fund on $971m
Advantage closes seventh Japan buyout fund on $971m

Advantage Partners has closed its seventh flagship Japan buyout fund with JPY 130bn (USD 971m) in commitments, beating a target of JPY 120bn.

  • North Asia
  • 28 April 2023
Japan's Globis closes Fund VII on $544m
Japan's Globis closes Fund VII on $544m

Japanese venture capital firm Globis Capital Partners (GCP) has closed its seventh fund on JPY 72.7bn (USD 544m), nearly twice what it raised in the previous vintage.

  • North Asia
  • 27 April 2023
Japan e-scooter maker raises $33.7m
Japan e-scooter maker raises $33.7m

Japanese e-scooter maker and urban shared micro-mobility developer Luup has raised a JPY 4.5bn round led by local VC firm Spiral Capital.

  • North Asia
  • 27 April 2023
Japan VCs back hair colouring chain
Japan VCs back hair colouring chain

A group of Japanese VC investors including Global Brain have provided JPY 1.1bn (USD 8.4m) in Series A funding to Fast Beauty, operator of hair colouring shop chain Fufu.

  • North Asia
  • 24 April 2023
J-Star invests in Japan IT provider
J-Star invests in Japan IT provider

Japanese private equity firm J-Star has invested an undisclosed sum in local IT staffing services provider Miraie in an apparent consolidation play.

  • North Asia
  • 20 April 2023
1Q analysis: Barely disguised weakness
1Q analysis: Barely disguised weakness

Government guidance funds in China and Toshiba Corporation in Japan papered over obvious cracks in Asia private equity fundraising and investment. Nothing could hide the pain around exits

  • Fundraising
  • 18 April 2023
Deal focus: The SoftBank effect, one step removed
Deal focus: The SoftBank effect, one step removed

The new owners of SoftBank Ventures Asia are cut from the same cloth – and even come from the same family – as the VC firm’s corporate parent. They aspire to reconfigure Asia’s tech ecosystem

  • North Asia
  • 18 April 2023
Japan's Marunouchi Capital hits $303m first close on Fund III
Japan's Marunouchi Capital hits $303m first close on Fund III

Marunouchi Capital, a Japanese private equity firm controlled by Mitsubishi Corporation, has reached a first close of JPY 40.2bn (USD 303m) on its third fund.

  • North Asia
  • 14 April 2023
Longreach acquires Japan IT company via bolt-on
Longreach acquires Japan IT company via bolt-on

The Longreach Group has acquired Japanese IT services provider Blueship as a bolt-on for Japan Systems, an existing portfolio company in the space.

  • North Asia
  • 13 April 2023
Mistletoe founders to acquire SoftBank Ventures Asia
Mistletoe founders to acquire SoftBank Ventures Asia

SoftBank Group has agreed to sell its captive VC unit, SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), to a newly formed entity led by the team behind Japan-headquartered start-up incubation and investment platform Mistletoe.

  • North Asia
  • 13 April 2023
Japan's J-Star names three new partners

Japanese lower middle-market private equity firm J-Star has elevated three longstanding staff to partner, bringing the total number of partners to nine.

  • North Asia
  • 04 April 2023
Japan 'deskless workforce' start-up raises $23m
Japan 'deskless workforce' start-up raises $23m

Japan’s Coral Capital has led a JPY 3bn (USD 23m) Series B round for Kaminashi, a local software start-up targeting an under-digitalised blue-collar segment it calls the “deskless workforce.”

  • North Asia
  • 02 April 2023
GIC takes co-control of Bain-owned Japan software company

Bain Capital has ceded co-control of Japanese HR software provider Works Human Intelligence (WHI) to GIC in a deal ranked among the Singapore sovereign investor’s largest acquisitions.

  • North Asia
  • 02 April 2023
Japan's Fiducia hits second close on debut fund
Japan's Fiducia hits second close on debut fund

Fiducia, a tech investor set up by the former private markets head of Japan Post Bank, has reached a second close of JPY 3.86bn (USD 29m) following a commitment from SBI Group.

  • North Asia
  • 02 April 2023
JIC Capital backs Japan's Hitachi Astemo
JIC Capital backs Japan's Hitachi Astemo

JIC Capital, the private equity unit of Japan Investment Corporation (JIC), has agreed to take a 20% stake in automotive components manufacturer Hitachi Astemo as part of a restructuring that will see Hitachi cede majority ownership.

  • North Asia
  • 31 March 2023
Japan's EV Motors raises $27m in extended Series C
Japan's EV Motors raises $27m in extended Series C

Japanese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer EV Motors has completed an extended Series C round, raising JPY 3.6bn (USD 27.1m) from at least 23 investors.

  • North Asia
  • 30 March 2023
D Capital agrees Japan digital marketing carve-out
D Capital agrees Japan digital marketing carve-out

Japanese mid-market private equity firm D Capital has agreed to buy the local operations of Catalina, a US-headquartered digital marketing company undergoing its second restructuring in four years.

  • North Asia
  • 29 March 2023
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