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ITOCHU Corporation

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The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter “ITOCHU”) dates back to 1858 when the Company’s founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles, machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

Milestones

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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in Roundbox. (12/15/08)
  Posted 1/7/09 at 9:04am
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in Bivio. (12/9/08)
  Posted 8/3/09 at 4:39pm
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in UIEvolution. (9/10/08)
  Posted 7/23/09 at 12:32am
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in Ku6. (6/27/08)
  Posted 7/23/08 at 12:17pm
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in Panasas. (5/18/08)
  Posted 5/12/09 at 2:18am
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in IGA Worldwide. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/28/08 at 5:19am
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  ITOCHU Corporation invested in NHK World.
  Posted 12/24/08 at 2:19am

Investments

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Sources

1. RoundBox raises $20 in Series C (startupmeme.com) [edit]
2. Capital Report Index [edit]
3. Wireless technology company UIEvolution raises $5 million (bizjournals.com) [edit]
4. Cap Funding Report (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Cap Funding Report [edit]
6. igaworldwide.com [edit]
7. Citation Needed [add]