Inside the Japanese Impact Venture Market: A Peer-to-Peer Discussion
📅 Thurs 21 May · 4:30–6:00pm
📍 Barbican (exact location shared on sign-up)
Our friends from the Japanese ecosystem are in town for PEI, and they've kindly offered to share their insights on the Japanese market while they're here.
Join us for an intimate peer-to-peer session deep-diving into what's happening on the ground - from LP appetite and capital flows to sector trends and what UK VCs should know about building relationships in Japan.
Joined by:
Tomomi Ishida — VC Investor at Energy & Environment Investment, the only Japanese VC firm focused exclusively on the energy and environment sectors
Masato Nakamura — Founder of GLIN Impact Capital - one of Japan's first growth equity impact funds, pioneering impact investing in the country. GLIN are dedicated to investing in and supporting growth-stage, socially impactful startups in Japan and the US.
Dama Sathianathan and Paul Miller — of Bethnal Green Ventures (Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC), sharing reflections from their recent visits to Japan meeting LPs and VCs in the ecosystem.
Expect candid conversation, nuanced takes, and the chance to ask lots of questions!
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