Sony Financial Ventures and Global Brain to Establish an AI-native, next-gen CVC fund
Sony Financial Ventures and Global Brain Corporation have established a new joint venture company 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.
Norbert Gehrke
