\u003C/a>\n\n---\n\n## Announcement of the new fund\n\nMr. Yurimoto, the representative of GB, announced the establishment of the Global Brain No.6 investment limited partnership (No.6 Fund). Mr. Yasuhiro Maeda, Deputy Director-General, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, gave a message that supported the “No. 6 Fund” with the title, “Expecting economic contribution through creating Open Innovation together with innovative ICT startups.”\n\nAs strategic LP investors, Cool Japan Fund, JTB, SMBC, Information Services International-Dentsu, KODEN Holdings and Sumitomo Forest talked about the meaning of participating in the No. 6 Fund.\n\nWe will start the operation of the No. 6 Fund with the first close at the end of December. It has a \\20-billion upper limit and the second close, or final close, will be the end of June 2017. In addition to business entities, universities and overseas institutional investors have committed to invest. \n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/046_R.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1000\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/046_R-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"046_R\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\n\n---\n\n## Pitches of Israel Startups\n\nThree startups from Israel provided pitches at the lunch venue. From Israel, where successful startups appear one after another, startups with advanced technologies presented pitches, which attracted more people than the lunch venue could hold.\n\n**登壇企業** \n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.loomsystems.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Loom Systems\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca href=\"https://ironscales.com/\" target=\"_blank\">IRONSCALES\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.effective-space.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Effective Space\u003C/a>\n\n## Growth strategy of Global Brain\n\nYasuhiko Yurimoto/Representative Director and President of Global Brain Mr. Yurimoto, our representative, talked about GB’s history and future growth strategy.\n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/057_R.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1001\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/057_R-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"057_R\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\n\n---\n\n## Innovation by the space industry\n\n**Panelists** \nMs. Naoko Yamazaki / Astronaut\nMr. Yuya Nakamura / Representative Director of AXELSPACE\nMr. Takeshi Natsuno / Special Guest Professor from Keio University\n\nWe held a panel discussion with Mr. Takeshi Natsuno, the inventor of i-mode and a member of the Committee on National Space Policy as a moderator. The panelists were Ms. Naoko Yamazaki, an astronaut and a member of the Committee on National Space Policy in the Cabinet Office, and Mr. Yuya Nakamura of AXELSPACE, which develops, launches and operates microsatellites.\n\nThe main theme of the discussion was the current status of space business in Japan and the USA. Space startups have successfully raised funds and about 1,000 startups are actively involved in the business domain. America leads the space industry because not only companies that develop and launch satellites, but also the industries that use their observation data are growing. According to both panelists, these peripheral industries are developing because “after the completion of NASA’s space shuttle projects, funds and talent have been expanding into the private sector.”\n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/075_R.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1002\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/075_R-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"075_R\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/宇宙パネリスト.png\">\u003Cimg class=\"wp-image-1245 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/宇宙パネリスト.png\" alt=\"宇宙パネリスト\" width=\"550\" height=\"143\" />\u003C/a>\n\n## World authority talking about the latest robotics industry\n\nMr. Rich Mahoney introduced the current status of the robotics industry, in which commoditization was in progress. He worked as a director of robotics at SRI International, the world largest research institution, for 7 years, and is currently the CEO of Superflex.\n\nHe said, “It is often said that spreading robotics will deprive people of their work. We need to show good stories about the future improved by robotics with a vision.” He also presented the concept of “powered clothing,” a product assisting the movement of muscles with an electric motor, which Superflex is currently planning and developing.\n\nAt the end of his presentation, he announced that GB had invested in Superflex as a lead investor in Series A.\n\nRefer to \u003Ca href=\"https://globalbrains.com/posts/1149\" target=\"_blank\">https://globalbrains.com/posts/1149\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05604.jpg\">\n\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/0102_R.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"wp-image-1241 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/0102_R-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"0102_R\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05604.jpg\">\n\u003C/a>\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05604.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"wp-image-1242 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05604-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05604\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/0102_R.jpg\">\n\u003C/a>\n\n## Mitsui Fudosan’s efforts for Open Innovation\n\nMr. Yoshikazu Kitahara / Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer of Mitsui Fudosan\n\nMr. Kitahara talked about Mitsui Fudosan’s previous efforts for new business and the preparation necessary for a large corporation to conduct Open Innovation.\n\nMitsui Fudosan has been operating incubation facilities and co-working spaces in Japan for a long period of time and focused on supporting startups. In April 2016, they established “31VENTURES,” a Venture Creation Department, to integrate four bases in Japan.\n\nMr. Kitahara said, “Large corporates are currently required to make major organizational innovation. It is necessary for us to make a small organization of about 20 personnel and give complete authority to them.” Also, he passionately said that a “going concern” was Japanese companies’ culture and “a real manager” was a person who protected employment and kept the company going. \n\n\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05646.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"wp-image-1243 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/1230/DSC05646-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05646\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" />\u003C/a>\n\n## KDDI’s efforts with startups\n\nMr. Toshifumi Tsukada / Director of the New Business Promotion Department, Value Business Division, KDDI Corporation \nMr. Tsukada talked about the results of working with startups and the future perspective of KDDI.\n\nWhile the connection between KDDI and users is being diversified due to the dissemination of smartphones, services provided by smartphone carriers have followed a similar path. KDDI has deployed “AU life design,” an effort to provide services that make users’ lives richer. Organically, KDDI on its own could not effectively provide services such as financial settlement, electricity, insurance and entertainment since KDDI’s traditional business is providing a communication service. Thus, they established the basis for co-creation with startups by starting initiatives such as KDDI ꝏ Labo, where they developed and supported startups, and the KDDI Open Innovation Fund, or corporate venture capital fund, and have provided services of the portfolio companies to communication service users.\n\nAlso, KDDI has founded a base in Korea in October 2016. He said this about the future perspective: “We will actively support startups in Korea in the future, and aim to create values that have an impact on the society.”\n","2016-12-09T00:00:00.000Z",{"id":13,"url":14},264,"/uploads/1230/GBAF.png",{"pagination":16},{"page":17,"pageSize":18,"pageCount":17,"total":17},1,25,["Reactive",20],{"$slocale":21,"$sloggedIn":22},"en",false,["Set"],["ShallowReactive",25],{"/strapi/api/posts?locale=en&pagination[page]=1&pagination[pageSize]=25&filters[slug][$eq]=1230--en":-1},true,"/en/posts/1230",{"sefirot-http-config":29,"sefirot-snackbars":30},{},{"items":31},["Ref",32],["Reactive",33],[]]