Beyond Next Ventures

Beyond Next Ventures is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in early-stage deep-tech startups across Japan and India. The firm leads seed and early-stage financings and continues to support portfolio companies as they scale. Its investment focus spans artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, semiconductors, space technology, biotechnology, drug discovery, medtech, climate tech, and agriculture and food technology.

Beyond capital, the firm runs two adjacent activities. The first is research commercialization support: assessing the commercial potential of research, assembling founding and management teams, arranging university intellectual-property and licensing agreements, and shaping financing strategies. The second is ecosystem development, covering talent development, open innovation, support for researchers, and Japan–India collaboration. Together these suggest an operating model closer to company building than passive portfolio management.

The stated orientation is long-term: support for portfolio companies extends well beyond funding, and the firm describes an ambition to create a self-sustaining cycle in which value generated by one generation of innovation helps finance the next. Geographic presence is concentrated in Tokyo and India, with vertical coverage across medtech and healthcare, drug discovery and biotechnology, agriculture and food, frontier technologies such as AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and space, and climate tech.

Prospective candidates should expect proximity to the technical work itself - translating laboratory research into businesses is the core of the firm's remit, and much of its activity sits upstream of typical venture investing.