Yoshiharu Asai is a life sciences-trained venture capital investor at JIC Venture Growth Investments who combines his background as a licensed pharmacist and Certified Member Analyst with experience spanning public capital markets, government-backed innovation capital, and growth-stage VC. He frequently represents JIC VGI on boards of advanced cell and gene therapy companies like Cellusion Inc. and serves as the firm's lead for several high-profile healthcare portfolio companies including Nxera Pharma and Cuorips.
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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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