Video Transcript
All our visits to emerging software companies, product demos, and of course meeting with other investors who are involved in the venture capital ecosystem here in Tokyo has only reaffirmed our view of the fact that there is a thriving, emerging, relatively new start-up and entrepreneurial ecosystem and culture here in Japan as well. And often, those are the starting points for, I’d say, seedlings for, innovative culture that we can see going forward. It’s notable how many of these companies have decided to take on some of the most structural, longer-term problems facing Japanese society.
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September 2022
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