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Global Brain Corporation

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About

Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm that aims to bring new industries to the society through extensive hands-on support for startups and open innovation with large corporations.

Going Beyond

Global Brain’s mission is to “bring unimaginable innovation into society through business creation”. Our surrounding environment is significantly changing due to global risks including extremely intense global competition, pandemic, and global warming. We believe that in such a time of uncertainty lies the greatest opportunity.

The power of startups is vital to overcome the unprecedented situations. The global economy is now largely led by many companies created right after the financial crisis.

For startups to achieve rapid growth, the existence of corporations is also crucial. Driving open innovation by combining startups’ technologies and corporations’ insights will more likely to bring about transformation.

Global Brain will aim for achieving the unimaginable in the society and continue to support business creation by working together with global startups and corporations, while also creating our own businesses.

Be a prime mover in business creation

Global Brain will continue to be a prime mover in business generation and innovation, especially through serving as an innovation-hub for global startups and corporations.

Values

In Global Brain, under the motto “Further Strengthening Individual and Organizational Capabilities”, we have established 11 guidelines.

  1. Play it straight: Always be fair and polite to work on social transformation from a long-term perspective.
  2. Affirmation: Start with affirmation for creating new values.
  3. Focus on human: Pursue transformation generated by people.
  4. Customer first: Strive to attain entrepreneurs’ and LPs’ ideals and solve their issues.
  5. Speed and carefulness: Make decisions promptly and carefully, and follow them through.
  6. Ownership: Be a self-starter who acts with responsibility.
  7. Innovation: Think outside the box and carry it out.
  8. Self-improvement: Build knowledge and experience proved by continuous self-improvement.
  9. Collaboration and contribution: Contribute to the team to maximize its performance instead of pursuing individual achievements.
  10. Knowledge sharing and mutual growth: Bring expertise to the organization for development of the entire team.
  11. Cost-effectiveness: Aim for maximum benefits with minimum capital and resource.

Markets

Corporate Innovation
Entrepreneurship Support
Global Startup Ecosystems
Open Innovation
Startup Acceleration
Venture Capital

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