“From savings to investment” — as the Japanese government advances this policy in earnest, pursuing its vision of Japan as a leading asset management nation, the landscape facing investors is changing dramatically. The 2022 Five-Year Plan for Startup Development, the 2023 Plan for Realizing an Asset Management-Led Nation, and reforms to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Venture Fund Market are all important turning points, signaling that Japan's private markets are entering a new phase.
Since our founding in 2017, and guided by our purpose — Unlock Investment, Transform Markets, Empower Japan — HiJoJo Partners has consistently pursued opportunities to invest in global unicorns, anticipating precisely this shift. The moment we encounter a startup with bold vision and innovative technology, and feel moved to support it, is where investment begins for us; realizing that impulse on a global scale, on behalf of investors who share it, has always been our starting point. Many of the most compelling companies remain unlisted right up until an IPO, yet for a long time Japan had few ways to reach them. Confronting that structural gap has been the foundation of everything HiJoJo Partners has built to date.
HiJoJo Global Unicorn Investment Corporation (HiJoJo PEIT), newly established, is an investment vehicle born where this shift in the times meets our purpose. By using the investment corporation structure, we aim to deliver access to global unicorns with greater transparency and convenience.
“It's worth doing precisely because it's new; if something has social value, we pursue it with everything we have” — together with the market participants who share this belief, we will continue building this investment infrastructure.
HiJoJo Global Unicorn Investment Corporation