The Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund), a global venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) spaces, and Yahoo! Japan Corporation (Yahoo! Japan, TYO:4689), have teamed up to accelerate growth in the AR and VR industries.
Under the partnership, The VR Fund will provide Yahoo! Japan deep insights to the AR/VR sector as well as early access to AR and VR innovators, which will drive Yahoo! Japan’s investment into AR/VR startups and potential business development.
The VR Fund’s investment portfolio will, in turn, benefit from Yahoo! Japan’s insights into internet business and consumers in Japan.
Yahoo! Japan is a media company with over 90 million daily unique browsers across its mobile and online properties in e-commerce, advertising and rich media.
Led by Marco DeMiroz, co-founder and general partner, The VR Fund is one of the most active venture capital investors in the sector, and its portfolio consists of early-stage startups developing content, infrastructure, platforms and tools for the broader global ecosystem.
FinSMEs
08/06/2017