Meet Tomotaka Goji of Japanese deep tech fund UTEC, who is on a mission to help startups go public
6 March 2019 2:22 AM IST
YourStory catches up with Tomotaka Goji, Managing Partner of University of Tokyo Edge Capital (UTEC), which invests in deep science and deep tech startups worldwide.
- “India has very good technical skills, and UTEC can help foster the deep tech startup ecosystem in India,” he says.
- Right after college, in the early 1990s, Goji San joined the Japanese government in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), now renamed METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
- Their first fund, the $80 million UTEC-1, was ready in five months and counted commercial banks, securities companies, an insurance company, a real estate company, and a government investment arm among its limited partners (LP)s.
- It was around this time that they began investing globally, and mostly bet on US startups as well as a Japanese startup with an American co-founder.
- UTEC Lead InvestorIn the deep science sector, UTEC’s areas of interest include healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, IoT, robotics, fintech, and AI.
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