Kan Yanazawa

Capitalist, JIC Venture Growth Investments
Kan Yanazawa, Tokyo-based investor, focuses on middle-to-growth and post‑IPO Japanese tech—SaaS, proptech, real estate platforms, IoT—acts as primary portfolio contact and leverages a UCLA Anderson MBA with hands‑on scaling experience.
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About Kan Yanazawa

Kan Yanazawa is a venture capitalist at JIC Venture Growth Investments in Tokyo who focuses on middle-to-growth stage and post-IPO Japanese technology companies, serving as the primary investment contact for portfolio companies across SaaS, proptech, real estate platforms, and IoT solutions. He combines a U.S. MBA background from UCLA Anderson with hands-on experience scaling operationally intensive tech businesses through their expansion phases rather than early-stage investing.

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JIC Venture Growth Investments

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Deeptech / Hardware, Biotech, Fintech, Health, AI
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JIC Venture Growth Investments is a government-backed venture capital fund created by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to support growth-stage startups that address Japanese social and industrial challenges like aging society and productivity issues. The fund operates an Opportunity Fund structure to fill the scale-up capital gap for later-stage Japanese startups across sectors including information technology, finance, transportation, and manufacturing.

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