January 21, 2019

Global Brain has invested in VALU, a FinTech platform providing opportunities to individuals to share and trade his/her own value

Global Brain (GB) has invested in VALU Inc. (CEO: Kohei Ogawa), a Japanese startup providing new FinTech service “VALU”, through its GB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership (GB-VI).

VALU aims to develop the platform to maximize opportunities for individuals to find individual value and success. With VALU, users can issue tokens, VA, backed by Bitcoin and sell to the fans. The fans, VALUER, are visible to other people, and they can trade VA with other fans. The platform provides market function that enables price fluctuation of VA. Through this financing, VALU will expand its business through service developments and talent acquisition.

GB highly evaluated VALU’s unique vision and technology and decide this investment. We will support VALU to create the new form of economy together.

About VALU

Location
Tokyo, Japan
Representative
Kohei Ogawa
Founded
December, 2016
URL
https://valu.is/

About GB-VI

Name
GB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership
General Partner
Global Brain Corporation
Fund Size
20 Billion JPY

About GB

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

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