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Viling Venture Partners

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Viling Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital seed fund focusing on education.

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Vilingベンチャーパートナーズ

founded date

27.05.2014

IPO status

Private

Description

Founded in 2014 by Yusuke Kurishima, Viling Venture Partners focuses on investing in startups in the education sector. The fund typically invests in companies that are 2-3 years old and offers incubation office space, a Seed Accelerator Program, and investment for a range of independent companies. Viling Group, the parent organization, also has a foundation that aims to create schools for the next generation of children.
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Date 
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16.06.2016
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$271.87K
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Yusuke Kurishima
Yusuke Kurishima

Yusuke Kurishima

After graduating from the Faculty of Business and Commerce of Waseda University, worked at a major asset management company as a stock trader, fund manager, and president of Viling Venture Partners Co., Ltd., a seed investment company specialized in the education field. Protostar Co., Ltd. (former Spanova) Co-founder and Director assumed office in December 2016 (current position). He has a strong interest in fostering human resources who can innovate while being involved with numerous entrepreneurs and creators, and strives to produce entrepreneurs in the education field and create an entrepreneur development community. While forming a community with entrepreneurs and creators scattered throughout Japan such as Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka, etc., we provide entrepreneurs in the education field and support entrepreneurs. In June 2015, he became an outside director of Alcterras. Born in 1988.

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