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Websitemizuho-vc.co.jp
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HQ
1-2-1 Uchisaiwaicho
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 100-0011, JPN
Osaka, JPN
4-2-1 Imabashi
Chuo-ku
Osaka, 541-0042, JPN

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Mizuho Venture Capital

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.

The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is the fifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.[1]

Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Ticketstreet inc. 3/13Series A$650k2
Glam Media 4/09Series D$10M1
Gemini Mobile Technologies 1/05Venture Round$7.5M3
GCT Semiconductor 11/02Series C$38M7

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  1. Safe and Secure Ticket Marketplace, TicketStreet Raises 60M Yen / Cnet Japan (venturenews-hnishikawa.blogspot.jp) [edit]
  2. Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. EDGAR [edit]
  4. Corporate Overview (gctsemi.com) [edit]
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