Global Brain announces the management strategy in 2022 — This year, 13 domestic and overseas investment companies will be Higgit, next year to the AUM ¥ 20 billion | BRIDGE (Bridge) Technology & Startup Information

AUM has been partially corrected because it has a CVC fund.Agricultural and forestry central safe is added to his GP fund to the CVC fund.(Deficit part)

Global Brain has held an annual event "Global Brain Alliance Forum 2021" (hereinafter abbreviated as GBAF 2021) online.At the event, Representative Director Yuri Yuri, Yuri Honmoto, announced the company's future management strategy.

2021年の振り返り——120社に200億円を投資実行、投資先4社がIPO、9社がM&Aでイグジット

百合本氏は、GBAF 2018 で組成を発表した7号ファンドに引き続き、400億円規模の8号ファンドと100億円規模の6号＆7号フォローファンドを組成中であることを明らかにした。同社が大企業と共同運営する CVC ファンドを除いたと純投資ファンド（1号〜8号ファンド）の AUM（Assets Under Management、運用するファンドの総資金量）は1,706億円で、来年には2,000億円を上回る勢いだ。

2021年にグローバル・ブレインが実施した出資は120社200億円に達し、投資先がイグジットを果たした実績は IPO が4社、M&A が9社に達した（累積では24社、M&A は57社）。

The startups that performed the IPO are NBT PARTNERS, Photosins, Wonder Planet, and Safi, which develops "CASHSLIDE (캐 캐 슬)", which shows news on the smartphone standby screen, (NBT PARTNERS as a startup that IPO was IPO last year.The name was listed. At this point, it was after IPO approval and it was before the IPO.)

M&A では、シンガポール発の特許検索・分析ツール開発スタートアップ Patsnap が Tencent（騰訊）に、またB 向け KYC サービスを提供するオーストリアの RegTech スタートアップ kompany が Moody’s に買収された。今年得られるキャピタルゲインの総和は110億円を超える見込みだという。

Full -scale deployment to the global market

Currently, Global Brain has eight locations in the world, including Tokyo, but will open a new base in Berlin and India Bangalol.London has strengthened personnel, expanded its investment from existing Shanghai bases and newly established bangalol bases in China and India, and although there is no base in Africa, Egypt is centered on the UK.Start investing in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa startups.

According to Yurimoto, the Global Brain's domestic series A cover rate (how many companies have been able to participate in the Series A -Round domestic startups) have reached about 85 %, given the immediate profits.Although it is not necessary to go abroad, it is meaningful to open up the market, support startups that challenge overseas markets, and create 80 % of the world's unicorns and market capitalization.He emphasized the need to aim to maximize investment performance by dropping capital in such large markets.

Local revitalization and CVC cooperation in Japan

With the fact that remote work has become established due to the corona evil, more and more entrepreneurs are starting to do business in areas that are convenient for me.In the United States, it is founded in Florida and Texas instead of Silicon Valley.Soon or later, this trend will also visit the Japanese startup scene and will be one of the accelerating regional revitalization.Mr. Yurimoto said that he would cooperate with the Kyoto Bank to contribute to discovering startups and open innovation in the Kansai region in collaboration with the Kyoto Bank.

Global Brain currently operates a CVC fund from the eight major business companies of KDDI, Mitsui Fudosan, Sony Financial Group, Seiko Epson, Yamato Holdings, Kirin Holdings, Jun Holdings, and Agriculture and Forestry Central Bank.The company monitors the movements of his CVC funds in the active world, and also imports his knowledge into his own CVC fund, and sees the value pro -positions of business companies, which are LP.He wants to encourage collaboration and synergy to startups.

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