Cool Japan Fund is a private equity and venture capital fund that promotes development of Japanese products and services. The fund was founded in 2013, in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The industries that the firm is interested in includes a variety of sectors such as media and media content, food and services, fashion, and lifestyles. Cool Japan Fund is interested in companies that provide production and distribution of educational products, social networking portals for women's fashion, biomaterials from spider silk, online private room reservations.
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Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.
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Catherine Shu
September 29, 2020
TechCrunch
With lockdowns around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the travel industry especially hard. In Asia, however, several startups are adapting by focusing on domestic activities (or "staycations") instead of international travel. They include Taipei-based KKday, which announced today that it has closed a $75 million Series C led by Cool Japan Fund and [...]
November 8, 2019
WebWire
Sentai Filmworks announced today that it acquired exclusive distribution rights to the feature-length anime film Space Brothers #0, prequel to the anime television series and long-running manga of the same name. Set four years before the events of the Space Brothers TV series, Space Brothers #0 tells the story of two brothers on disparate paths. Hibito Namba is a rookie astronaut in training while his brother, Mutta, has found his own ambitions at a disappointing standstill. When Hi...
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