Review on JAFCO Japan by Inioluwa Okedeji
Jafco Japan: A Japanese Venture With The Aim Of Helping Japan And Impacting The Global Market By Contributing To People's Lives Through Technological Innovations.
Jafco Japan is a Japanese firm has can be obviously assumed from its name. that plays the role of incubator and a private equity firm. The main aim of Jafco Japan is to lift Japan out of stagnation both financially and in other aspects, majorly with the help of technological innovations. It is for this exact purpose that this firm targets and focuses on companies with high potentials in innovative and creative strategies.
In the ploy to achieve its aim, Jafco Japan has also made high potential startups its point of interest. Thus, they provide support for these startups, help increase their corporate values, expand their business models, thus helping them develop into a full-grown profitable venture.
Jafco Japan which as I've said earlier also acts a venture capital organization. It helps startup ventures not only in Japan but in other parts of the world such as Korea, Taiwan, United States, India and others through series of funding that will definitely help these startups financially-wise.
Jafco Japan makes investments in several innovative sectors such as medical biotechnology, IT and electronic services and also in industries like Chatwork, Repro, LayerX and others.
Looking at the underlying commitment of Jafco Japan, I discovered that it's main aim is impacting and contributing positively to people's way of life. And they've been doing this successfully has they have cumulatively over 1 trillion yen in commitments and over 1000 companies are under their umbrella to date.
Jafco Japan also feature investment plans ranging from Venture investment, Buyout investment, to Funds. These investment plans are also classified into large scale categories, continuous and business creation category. These classifications will help interested clients to easily make investment choices and also help them with investment plans that fits in with their business models.
In conclusion, Jafco Japan is a corporation available to meet different needs, be it investments or startups development. And they're have branches and points of interest across the world which makes it easier to find their target audience.
Pros
- Jafco Japan has a world-class team of partners to aid in entrepreneurship and help with their accumulated expert experience.
- Jafco Japan has over 1000 companies in its portfolio and over 1 trillion yen has been committed since its inception.
- There are support teams available to assist the portfolio companies and guide them on specific needs to their growth.
- New startups with potential business models can have access to a talent pool of over 1000 candidates where they will then be sorted according to their talents.
Cons
- Being a Japanese venture, there's high tendency that their services will be largely concentrated in Japan and Asia thus starving other parts of the world of their services. Although that's expected since that is the birth place of the firm.
