Genesia Ventures Closes Fund IV at Approximately 18 Billion JPY, Specializing in Seed-Stage Startup Investments

Genesia Ventures, Inc. (CEO: Soichi Tajima, HQ: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) is pleased to announce the closing of its new fund, "Genesia Venture Fund IV L.P." (hereinafter, Fund IV), at approximately 18 billion JPY, specializing in investments in seed-stage startups in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India.

About Genesia Ventures

Genesia Ventures is an independent venture capital firm that primarily invests in and provides management support to seed-stage startups in Asia.

The name "Genesia" is a portmanteau of "Genesis," meaning origin or creation, and "Asia," expressing our desire to be a venture capital firm that fosters the creation of Asia.

About Fund IV

We have now established our fourth fund. This time, we have received investments mainly from domestic and international institutional investors and financial institutions. We have been investing in and supporting the growth of startups in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India. For Fund IV, based on our past achievements and the expertise cultivated in each country, we are newly advocating for "Asia Origin."

"Asia Origin" is the concept of supporting startups that originate from Asia's unique challenges and industrial structural changes to create a global impact.

In Fund IV, we will continue to leverage the knowledge and networks of our bases in Tokyo, Indonesia (Jakarta), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City), and India (Bengaluru) to support the growth of startups.

Against the backdrop of exponential advancements in AI and other concurrent groundbreaking innovations, we aim to create entirely new industries by investing in promising business areas with high affinity to these changes, fostering the emergence of large-scale startups.

Investment Areas

As technological innovations like AI, the energy transition, and Asia's economic rise converge, barriers that have long hindered industrial progress and demand realization are being dismantled at an unprecedented pace.

However, we do not adopt an approach of declaring specific industrial sectors as our investment targets. Our focus is not on the specific industry categories themselves, but on the direction of change driving those business areas and its drivers. As the drivers of change affect new areas with the times, our interest will shift accordingly. What our team has accumulated is not a list of investment areas, but the ability to decipher the structure of change.

As a result, we have invested in a wide range of seemingly unrelated fields, from supervising anime production to refining materials for nuclear fusion reactors. With the newly established Fund IV, we will continue to support teams capable of creating a global impact from their earliest stages, regardless of their field.

Fund's Investment Track Record

Major EXITs: Timee (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in July 2024), HRBrain (stock transfer to European investment fund "EQT" in November 2023)

Largest Platforms in Southeast Asia: Docquity (platform for doctors, from Indonesia, operating in 7 countries), Qoala (insurance solutions, from Indonesia, operating in 5 countries)

Changes in Labor Force: Sukedachi (platform for the construction industry), Linc (bridge between foreign talent and Japan)

Changes in Electricity Market: Tensor Energy (renewable energy platform), MiRESSO (material refining for nuclear fusion reactors)

Immature Supply Chains: Buymed (rebuilding pharmaceutical distribution/Vietnam), KAMEREO (building food procurement infrastructure/Vietnam)

Financial Inclusion through Technology: movus technologies (building mobility infrastructure/Indonesia), Fundiin (creating new credit/Vietnam)

Pioneering Frontier Markets: ElevationSpace (new space transportation network), Beff (intelligent infrastructure for the new battery industry)

Comments from the Management Team

Soichi Tajima, Representative Director / General Partner

With the support of many institutional investors and business corporations, we have successfully established Fund IV at approximately 18 billion JPY. I extend my heartfelt gratitude.

We believe that an unprecedented opportunity for startups has arrived, with multiple revolutions happening simultaneously and compounding each other's growth: the information processing revolution by generative AI, the trust revolution by blockchain, the energy and computing power revolution including quantum and nuclear fusion, and the life sciences revolution like bioinformatics. Without wavering from our focus on "investing in early-stage startups," we will invest in areas that deeply overlap with these compounding revolutions and have a significant impact on society.

Furthermore, as the hurdle for fundraising from Series A onwards rises, seed-stage entrepreneurs are required to build greater traction and stronger teams than ever before. This requires sufficient funding at the very early stages. While expanding our fund size, we will limit the number of portfolio companies to invest more significantly in each and walk alongside them. We eagerly invite entrepreneurs challenging to create large industries to reach out to us.

Takehiro Suzuki, Head of Overseas Investment / General Partner

It is true that the rapid progress of technological innovations, including AI, has given rise to skepticism about the potential of startups.

However, I see a completely different picture. With AI, the energy transition, and Asia's economic rise happening simultaneously, long-standing barriers to industrial progress and demand realization are being dismantled at an unprecedented speed. I am convinced that this is an era where the opportunity for startups to create large businesses and industries is expanding.

Since our founding, we have been rooted not only in Japan but also in emerging Asian countries like Southeast Asia and India, continuing our investment activities.

"Asia Origin"

Our goal is to realize, together with entrepreneurs, the challenge and creation of startups that originate from Asia's unique challenges and industrial structural changes to create a global impact.

Towards achieving our mission of "creating a platform for sustainable industries to be born in Asia," we will act as a bridge connecting Japan, Southeast Asia, and India, promoting inter-regional collaboration and co-creation between startups and large corporations, and walk alongside the entrepreneurs who will pioneer the next era.

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