Strong industry,Strong Japan.
We’re not just building businesses. We’re building industries.Our goal is exceedingly clear.Even after these “Lost 30 Years,” Japan remains under the shadow of a bitter stagnation.This is an opportunity to reimagine Japan’s future.We’re not here to stop at small successes.Together, we’re developing the knowledge and technology to overturn convention and utterly transform our industrial underpinnings.To become, once more,the Japan that wowed the world.
Approach
Exploratory Investment
to Build Strong Industries
How do we accurately grasp the full picture and momentum of a market?
By actively investing in seed-stage companies.
This “exploratory investment” is our fundamental approach.
We firmly believe that it’s the passion of startup founders and engineers that will open the way to the future.
By investing in startups around the world, we can identify emerging trends across all industries, deepen understanding, and support growth.
We assess fields with vast potential and the challenges facing those that are stagnating, anticipating societal shifts with an insider’s perspective.
By collaborating with startups and large corporations—at times with government support—we create groups of globally competitive companies capable of leading entire industries.
This is Blue Lab’s mission.
We’re not Looking.
We’re Meeting.
We are out in the field, meeting startups and engaging in ongoing dialogue—as many as we can.
We’re greedy about it.
That tireless energy is our lifeblood.
We know we can’t fixate on a subjective investment strategy
that considers only our own circumstances.
Do that, and we risk losing sight of society’s fundamental needs and falling behind.
We’re here to absorb everything going on,
and bring that knowledge to our discussions with new startup founders today.
In the Driver’s Seat
for Business
We invest broadly in seed-stage startups and commit deeply to their operations.
Management holding a meeting? We’re there, getting first-hand, high quality information.
As a path to growth appears,
we double down by investing in adjacent areas, building up insights multidimensionally.
Through this process we refine our feel for domains with the potential to evolve into strong,
Japan-based industries—powered by the assets of Mizuho Bank.
Growing Strong Industries
In places where we are confident in growth,
we widen our perspective to include related large enterprises
and envision a comprehensive design for the industry as a whole.
Rather than rely on conventional investments confined to sole businesses,
we join management from the early stages,
accelerating and expanding toward the creation of entire industries.
This is the Blue Lab approach to investment.
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