Consulting firm Four Seas has announced the establishment of their new JPY 1 billion Tsurashi 1 Fund, which will invest in tech start-ups in Japan and abroad. The fund will target companies in the Kyushu-Okinawa region and in Asia, including Taiwan, and will support seed and early-stage start-ups.
Four Seas was founded in 2017 and operates the Koza Startup Shopping Arcade and KOZAROCKS, a startup support base in the Koza area.
Head of Four Seas Kenichiro Toyosato announced of the new fund, "we want to develop the Okinawan economy by capturing the growth of start-ups not only in the prefecture, but also outside the prefecture and overseas."
