📉 Japan's VC industry is facing a slow-motion crisis. But 🇯🇵 New fund "ain" is redesigning startup investing for the Japanese market👇
🔁 A VC-PE hybrid approach
🏭 Carve-outs: high hit rate, zero competition
💡 "Growth Secondary" — the third way pulse.growthstock.app/ain-1/
Try to make it transparent — it turns white.
A lone entrepreneur in Tsukuba has cracked a paradox that stumped the optical materials industry for years — using a 🌡️ lower-temp, lower-pressure process that a 🇺🇸 US rival couldn't solve with 💰 in funding. pulse.growthstock.app/nanochemix-1/
🔬 Japan has world-class materials science — but most of it never leaves the lab. @NIMS_PR is trying to change that.
✨ EIR program: 60+ applicants, only 2 selected
📝 In-house patent attorneys for faster filings
🌏 Global expansion effort pulse.growthstock.app/nims-1/
🔬 Tsukuba, Japan — 1 in 20 workers is a "researcher" 🧑🔬, patent filings among the nation's highest 📝. Potential? In a league of its own 🏆.
But 8 years of startup support later 😮, the story was nothing like we expected. pulse.growthstock.app/tsukuba-city-1/
See also: @TSUKUBA_CONNECT
"'Let's hang next month' almost never happens. 'Let's go tonight' is the real deal." — @OfficialFunNow CEO
🌏Operating across 6 markets in Asia
🇯🇵34% of Japan's visitors come from FunNow's user base
🏯Japan is still "only 10–15% tapped"
Playbook? pulse.growthstock.app/funnow-1/