Lower valuations in Japan: A hidden opportunity, or not quite?
there’s definitely feels like there’s an over supply of capital compared to the basically offer sort of reasonable startups and entrepreneurial capital it’s very difficult in Japan to find second generation of entrepreneurs you know people in don’t leave their job in their 30s and 40s to start businesses they just do not so that is a little bit of the the friction because then when you actually find you know good founders founders that have track record there aren’t very many you would assume that you know money will flow your way but it doesn’t and when you actually look at the macro stats on capital raising and capital deployment in Japan pretty much at every single stage the round size is smaller and the valuations are smaller than everywhere else almost by a full cycle so there’s also a little bit of sort of the the the DNA of the investors in Japan that is structurally different than what you can find
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