Investment Business
Investments in venture companies to generate sales gains on investment securities, and asset, real estate and advisory businesses operated by RISA Partners, Inc., among others
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Overview and characteristics
These business segments are made up of the investments to venture companies that the Company makes and RISA Partners’ businesses.
Investments for venture companies
The Company established the Innovative Venture Fund and CSV Venture Fund to invest in and support venture companies. The former Innovative Venture Fund is a venture fund that aims to discover and nurture technology venture companies from their establishment, and is a joint operation with SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd. The latter Value CSV Venture Fund invests in social innovation-type venture companies, is a venture fund whose purpose is to support ventures in the social solutions field (contents, services, applications, inbound, etc.).
RISA Partners Inc.’s businesses
We subsidized RISA Partners (hereafter RISA) in 2010 in order to diversify our financial services. Due to RISA’s history of having implemented business mainly among financial institutions, they have built up a network of more than 180 local financial institutions. This is a different customer base from ours which comprises from public offices and local governments, as well as business corporations. Together with financial corporations, RISA offers optimal solutions to the management issues that local corporations face, providing support from the financial perspective with investment and loans, and from the standpoint of an advisor, leveraging specialized expertise in finance, real estate, etc.
RISA has gathered professionals from a wide variety specialized fields to be able to provide customers with a one-stop source of a multitude of functions and services that meet needs ranging from business growth support to improvement of capital efficiency, restoration of credit, and effective utilization of real estate.
COLUMN Enhanced business succession solutions for small to medium-sized companies
RISA has begun its business succession support business, which involves collaboration with local financial institutions to meet the growing nationwide need among small to medium-sized companies for business succession support. Small to medium-sized companies that want to solve business succession issues with local financial institutions. Local financial institutions that absorb the needs of local companies, and aim to establish themselves as main banks. By providing solutions that combine its corporate advisor function with corporate investment centering on the corporate value improvement fund it has cultivated (the RISA Corporate Solutions Fund), RISA aims to match the needs of small to medium-sized companies with those of local financial institutions.