Mitsui Ventures 三井ベンチャーズ(MVC、MCVP) ベンチャーキャピタル ベンチャー 三井物産 起業

Mitsui Ventures is a provider of early stage venture capital for various types of technology firms with a special expertise in helping to build their businesses globally.

Mitsui Ventures is the venture investment arm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. We are a global venture capital group, actively investing through two subsidiaries, MVC and MCVP.

In its history, Mitsui & Co. has been developing on its own, or supporting launching by others of, numerous new businesses. The venture investment initiative of Mitsui Ventures follows Mitsui's tradition of developing and launching new ventures.

With a view to leading ventures to success, we will contribute to the formulation and implementation of business strategy of portfolio companies, through board seat, by collaborating with them to accelerate the growth, and by providing other various support. Our target includes not only investing in existing venture companies, but also introduction of overseas business models to the domestic market, and "spin-out" of product or technology from large companies.

Provision of cross-border support:

We will provide cross-border support to venture companies by the use of Mitsui & Co.'s worldwide network (e.g., giving assistance to foreign companies regarding their marketing in Japan, or to Japanese venture companies regarding their sales or alliance in foreign countries).

To keep up with the world trend:

Mitsui Venture's investment is decided and made based on the most updated global standard, taking advantage of its international investment experience. Further, we always carefully look at market trends in major countries to achieve a well-balanced global portfolio.

Most of our key fund manages have experience in engaging in actual business at a variety of business units of Mitsui & Co. or other companies. We form teams in charge of each core area (IT, bio-pharma and medical devices), and make investment based on the knowledge and expertise accumulated by each team. We make available to venture companies Mitsui's business resources such as international as well as domestic network, marketing ability, industry knowledge, business know-how and so on.

Investing hundreds of million Yen (or millions of U.S. Dollars) or more (including follow-on) in early stage venture companies for which Mitsui's capability of helping business building and global business development would be of help.

Focusing mainly on IT industry (software, telecommunications, semiconductor, electronics, information service and so on) and Life Science industry (bio-pharma, medical device). Any other promising area could be targeted depending on the locality (such as restaurant chain and retail service business in Japan).

Unlike many Japanese VCs (that are typically a Japanese bank's subsidiary), Mitsui Ventures does not pursue a strategy to invest a small amount of money into a number of venture companies. We would, however, be flexible regarding later stage venture companies, so long as our portfolio balance is maintained.

Company	Outline
Actimis Pharmaceuticals	Drug discovery company in the field of respiratory disease	M&A in June 2008
Carna Biosciences Inc. (JASDAQ NEO: 4572)	Drug discovery company in the field of kinase	JASDAQ NEO in March 2008
SK Communications （KOSDAQ：066270）	Portal Site For Mobile Phones	KOSDAQ in November 2007 (Merged into Empas)
Aeluros, Inc.	Transceiver For Ethernet	M&A in October 2007
Kichiri & Co., Ltd. (HERCULES: 3082)	Operation of Dining Bars	IPO in OSE Hercuｌes in June 2007
CareNet, Inc. (MOTHERS: 2150)	e-Detailing & Medical Information Provision	IPO in TSE Mothers in April 2007
Aruba Networks, Inc. （NASDAQ： ARUN）	Wireless Network Devices	IPO in NASDAQ in March, 2007

1984	Mitsui USA forms a venture fund.
Oct 1985	ORIEN I, a venture capital fund sponsored by Mitsui, is formed in Connecticut, U.S.A(ORIEN II follows in July 1988).
Dec 1995	Mitsui Asia Investment Co. is established in Singapore.
Nov 1996	MVC Corporation is incorporated in Tokyo.
Feb 1997	MVC Global Japan Fund I is launched.
Jul 1997	Mitsui USA starts portfolio venture investment in the U.S.A.
Dec 2000	MVC Global Japan Fund II starts investing.
Apr 2001	Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, Inc. ("MCVP") is incorporated to manage MCVP Fund II. MCVP opens its Tokyo office.
Nov 2001	Corporate Development Division is organized.
Dec 2001	A fund for venture investment in Korea is established jointly with KTB, the largest VC in Korea. MVC personnel is seconded to the KTB headquarters in Seoul.
Aug 2002	Mitsui Asia Investment Co. is consolidated with MVC. MVC took over the management of Asia Investment Fund.
Mar 2003	LP investment is made into CMF Fund in China, to whose Shanghai office MVC personnel is seconded.
Aug 2004	MCVP becomes a subsidiary of MVC; Mitsui's global venture investment activities are integrated as "Mitsui Ventures".
Mar 2005	MVC Global Japan Fund III starts investing.
Aug 2005	MVC Shanghai Office opens.
Aug 2006	Mitsui Ventures Global Fund is launched.
Sept 2007	MVC Beijing Office opens.