Jun Hosoya
MD, Value Creation Investment @ Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Jun Hosoya is a seed investor at Innovation Network Corporation of Japan in Tokyo focused on iOS and Music. Formerly a founding partner of Apax Globis Partners & Co. (now Globis Capital Partners), one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. In addition to Wireless Glue, he currently serves as a director of INCJ portfolio companies Miselu, Inc., Sphelar Power Corporation, and CerebrEX, Inc. He received a BA in Sociology with a minor inInternational Economics from Rikkyo University, Tokyo, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
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Industries Jun Hosoya invests in
Stages Jun Hosoya invests in
Countries Jun Hosoya invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- iOS 2 (50%)
- Music 1 (25%)
- Android 1 (25%)
- Software 1 (25%)
- Wireless 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 2 (50%)
- Japan 1 (25%)
Investments
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| Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and founded in 2012, CerebrEX Corporation is a venture-backed semiconductor start-up in the business of developing proprietary display technologies for the flat panel display market. The company directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional design, small pixels and high resolution. The company has anadditional office in Tokyo, Japan.“CerebrEX” is a compound word – a union of the word “CEREBRA” with such inspiring words as expertise, expansion, excitement, and extol. The word was created and adopted as our company name to signify our belief that a team of brains would more effectively contribute to realize better life and more exciting environment. CerebrEX provides an exciting workplace for all employees engaged at all levels within the company. CerebrEX commits to provide its customers with the most advanced LSI solutions, technologies and continuous growth. | $7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 09, 2017 | ||
| Wireless Glue is a United States-based company with offices in Japan that delivers software and hardware solutions that capture and deliver energy data in real-time for the Commercial and Industrial market. | $4.5M / Series B / Feb 21, 2013 | ||
| Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and founded in 2012, CerebrEX Corporation is a venture-backed semiconductor start-up in the business of developing proprietary display technologies for the flat panel display market. The company directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional design, small pixels and high resolution. The company has anadditional office in Tokyo, Japan.“CerebrEX” is a compound word – a union of the word “CEREBRA” with such inspiring words as expertise, expansion, excitement, and extol. The word was created and adopted as our company name to signify our belief that a team of brains would more effectively contribute to realize better life and more exciting environment. CerebrEX provides an exciting workplace for all employees engaged at all levels within the company. CerebrEX commits to provide its customers with the most advanced LSI solutions, technologies and continuous growth. | $42.5M / Seed / Sep 19, 2012 | ||
| San Francisco based Miselu develops music interfaces and instruments to enrich the experience of creating music with the iPad. The team led by Yoshinari Yoshikawa and Jory Bell, builds products with a strong design aesthetic, utilizing modern technology in bold new ways to enhance musical expression. | $6M / Series A / Jul 01, 2011 |
Co-Investors
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan Contacts
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Toshiyuki Shiga
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Hajime Tanahashi
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Haruyasu Asakura
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Hideko Kunii
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Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
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What does Jun Hosoya invest in?
Jun Hosoya invests primarily in iOS, Music and Android startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Jun Hosoya closed in Jul 2017. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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