{"id":521798,"date":"2026-03-13T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:19:41","slug":"japans-global-brain-to-launch-fund-with-us-startup-accelerator-techstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521798\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Global Brain to launch fund with US startup accelerator Techstars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/startups\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Startups<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Venture capital firm will raise $200m to back new companies, foster connections<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260310N Global Brain Techstars\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Global Brain President Yasuhiko Yurimoto, left, with David Cohen, founder and CEO of Techstars. (Global Brain)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese venture capital firm Global Brain will partner with U.S.-based startup accelerator Techstars to create a $200 million fund that will invest in promising new companies outside of Japan, in such fields as artificial intelligence, Nikkei has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups Venture capital firm will raise $200m to back new companies, foster connections Global Brain President Yasuhiko Yurimoto,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[26528,3615,28,158,20393,10254,73821,21325,14729,94590,25],"class_list":["post-521798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-accelerator","tag-brain","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-fund","tag-global","tag-japans","tag-launch","tag-startup","tag-techstars","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}