CyberAgent Ventures, Inc. (Headquarter:Tokyo, President & CEO: Soichi Tajima), a subsidiary of CyberAgent, Inc. (Headquarter:Tokyo, President & CEO: Susumu Fujita), announces to establish [RISING EXPO], one of the biggest event for internet-related ventures who want to do fund-raising and/or business alliance, in September 2012.
[RISING EXPO] is an event to build a meet-up between ventures and venture capital firms, business companies’ executives, and other guests. This event is very suitable for ventures who want to expand their business by doing fund-raising, creating business alliance, etc. Besides CyberAgent Ventures who manages this event, big companies such as Recruit Agent/Biz-IQ, Sumitomo Realty and Development, IBM-Japan, Daiwa Securities, SME Support Japan, Tokyo Stock Exchange, NIKKEI, CNET Japan, TechCrunch Japan, etc will also join this event. We believe we can provide beneficial things for ventures who want to expand their business through this event.
The first round of the event will be held on September 28, 2012, and right now we are gathering application from ventures who want to participate. The most appropriate companies for this event are ventures who have already started the internet-related service and right now are planning to do fund-raising for more than 100 million yen. The applications will be checked by the experts, and only the selected applicants who can participate to the event. [RISING EXPO] will be held twice a year and in the near future will also be held in other countries.
CyberAgent Ventures supports the start-ups who already succeeded to launch their service, and now are planning to do fund-raising, business alliance for the global-expansion. CyberAgent Ventures wants to build a good environment/ecosystem to support those ventures, so the whole internet-industries will grow up.
■[RISING EXPO] Event’s Outline
Name : [RISING EXPO 2012 FALL]
URL : http://www.rising-expo.com
Date : September 28, 2012.
Time : 9:30～20:00 (Including the social gathering after the event)
Place : Akasaka DS building. 3F,8-5-26Akasaka, Minato-ku,Tokyo. 107-0052
(Startup Base Camp, CyberAgent Ventures’ Office)
Applicant requirements:
1, Is an Internet-related Venture.
2, Has already launched the service, and had a steady number of users or sales.
3, Are planning to do fund-raising for more than 100 million yen.
※The place of headquarter does not matter
※Only the selected participant can attend the event.
Potential Investors:
Domestic and international leading venture capitals, the representative companies of internet industries (Invitation-only Event)
※This event is a pure matching-event between ventures and potential investors, and is not an event to ask the potential investors
to buy our stocks.
Partners (Sponsors)
Joint-Sponsorship : Recruit Agent/Biz-IQ
Co-Sponsor : Sumitomo Realty and Development, IBM-Japan
Cooperation : Daiwa Securities, SME SupportJapan,TokyoStock Exchange, NIKKEI, CNETJapan, TechCrunchJapan
■Related-Event (Programs, Events that are arranged to give various supports for companies who will attend RISING EXPO)
Name : The real experiences from venture’s executive who will talk about creating a
business, working as a venture, receiving investment.
URL : http://www.rising-expo.com/event2.html
Date : August 16(Thursday), 21(Tuesday), 30(Thursday),
September 4(Tuesday), 13(Thursday), 20(Thursday), 2012.
Total 6 times.
Time :19:00～
Place : Recruit G8 building, Startup Base Camp (CyberAgent Ventures’ Office)
Organizer: Recruit Agent, Inc / Biz-IQ, Inc.
■About CyberAgent Ventures, Inc.
Company Name : CyberAgent Ventures, Inc.
URL : http://www.cyberagentventures.com
Address : Akasaka DS building 3F,8-5-26Akasaka, Minato-ku,Tokyo. 107-0052
Founded :April 3, 2006
Capital Stock : 360 Million Yen
CEO : Soichi Tajima
■For further information, please contact;
Kubo Akifumi
CyberAgent Ventures, Inc.
Tel ：03-5772-1234
E-mail：rising@cyberagent.co.jp