Global Brain Corporation (Global Brain) and Sony Financial Ventures Inc. (Sony Financial Ventures) have established a joint venture (new company) on October 15, 2025 through a co-investment. The rapidly changing environment has been requiring startups to accelerate business expansion, go global, and adopt sophisticated fundraising practice, causing more complex management issues. This has heightened expectations for investment partners who can offer not only capital but also insights and networks necessary for startups’ growth. With this backdrop, Global Brain and Sony Financial Ventures have jointly established a new company to introduce a new approach to startup support for the next generation. The new company aims to build an environment for Japanese and overseas entrepreneurs to pursue their endeavors and evolve into a platform that creates long-term growth opportunities. It will bring together Global Brain’s investment knowhow and Sony Group’s technology and adopt an AI-powered and data-driven investment mode to support entrepreneurs’ challenges with greater precision and speed and unlock global growth opportunities. The new company will start preparing for fund formation and building a startup support structure, along with streamlining and enhancing investment activities through leveraging an AI-powered investment process and combining assets of Global Brain and Sony Financial Group.

About the new company

Name: Otemachi Investment Preparation Inc.
(Trade name at the time of incorporation, which will be changed by the start of business)
Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Founded: October 15, 2025

About Sony Financial Ventures

Name: Sony Financial Ventures Inc.
Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Representative: Kenji Bansho

About Global Brain

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Representative: Yasuhiko Yurimoto
Founded: January 1998
URL: https://globalbrains.com

Global Brain has established a new company with Sony Financial Ventures to manage an AI-native, next-generation CVC fund