The "University of Tokyo Founder's Association LLP" created by business owners from the University of Tokyo has established the "University of Tokyo Founder's Association Fund (commonly known as)" to invest in start-up companies established by current students and graduates.Four companies, including Eltes Co., Ltd., a digital risk management company, and Good Days Holdings Co., Ltd., which operates a real estate brokerage site, will invest.
According to Eltes, the official name of the fund is "UT Founders' Association Investment Limited Partnership".Operated with the cooperation of Global Brain, an independent venture capital firm.The representative is Masashi Mizunaga, president of real estate star Mica Holdings.
The total investment amount is undecided, but it is planned to be within 20 billion yen.The investment targets are domestic and overseas start-up companies founded or operated by students and graduates of the University of Tokyo, and the operation period is planned to be 9 years.
These efforts are called graduate funds and are being actively promoted by Stanford University and others.However, it is still rare in Japan.
It has come to be called out that it is necessary to foster start-up companies in order to boost the Japanese economy, such as the government's "Five-Year Startup Plan" and Keidanren's "Start-up Breakthrough Vision."The University of Tokyo Founder's Association Fund aims to foster start-up companies that support innovation by taking advantage of this situation.
