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Mizuho Venture Capital

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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

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  Mizuho Venture Capital invested in Ticketstreet inc.. (3/29/13)
  Posted 4/3/13 at 12:53am via blogspot.jp
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  Mizuho Venture Capital invested in Glam Media. (4/6/09)
  Posted 4/6/09 at 6:52pm via paidcontent.org
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  Mizuho Venture Capital invested in Gemini Mobile Technologies. (1/1/05)
  Posted 7/4/10 at 8:10pm
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  Mizuho Venture Capital invested in GCT Semiconductor. (11/1/02)
  Posted 7/12/11 at 1:40pm via gctsemi.com

Investments

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Sources

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]