Venture Capital

To support the growth of core Japanese industries in the 21st century, the SBI Group invests in Internet-related IT enterprises through venture capital funds for future growth sectors such as biotechnology, healthcare and medical informatics, broadband, and media, thereby developing venture companies in the same field. In the future, we will establish funds to support venture enterprises' growth in the mobile, wireless, environment, and energy sectors.

Mechanism of venture capital funds

1. Raise funds from investors
2. Invest raised funds fully for utilizing the SBI Group's expertise to identify quality companies
3. Incubate companies and provide support for initial public offerings (IPO)
4. Realize capital gains through the sale of stocks
5. Distribute funds to investors

Our Group’s incubation activities are designed to solve the multi-faceted challenges that investee companies face. We make strategic proposals concerning management, marketing, and financing and even assist with their implementation and entrenchment. Moreover, we leverage our infrastructure to promote business reorganization and support sales.

We also have a hands-on approach whereby several SBI Group managers focus on each venture company.

Examples of Hands-on Approach
We dispatch executive officers and offer management instruction and advice in accordance with investee companies' needs.
In this process, we make a proposal for business alliances that facilitate corporate value enhancement, introduce potential employees, and provide the necessary support to establish internal management structure and capital policies.
・Support for establishing business models or plans
・Products developments and financing
・Promote products or services
・Dispatch executive officers and provide staffing
・Execute growth strategies through an advantage of scale
・Set business plans and capital strategies or policies (including strategies to conduct an IPO or other EXIT methods)
・Support for executing the plans or strategies above (including legal support)
・Support for establishing internal management structure (finance/ labor management /investor relations)
・Introduce and execute a managerial accounting system in compliance with inspection based on the audits and law of securities transactions.
・Other necessary supports

We have established a comprehensive system to provide fundraising support leading to each venture firm's IPO by leveraging and fusing the network strength of SBI Investment, Japan's largest venture capital firm with a strong record in venture company investments, with the sales capability and investment banking (underwriting, etc.) strength of SBI SECURITIES, Japan's largest online brokerage in terms of accounts.