Headline Asia Announces the Close of Fund 4 at Over $100 Million

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 3 August 2021 – On July 31, 2021, early-stage
venture capital firm Headline Asia (formerly known as Infinity Ventures) has
announced they will close their fourth fund at over $100 Million. In May 2021,
Infinity Ventures and e.ventures rebranded as a single firm, Headline, to
invest together globally in innovative internet technology companies. 

A number of previous institutional
investors returned for Fund 4, including the National Development Fund of
Taiwan, Abico Group, and Otto Group of Germany. 

“Our new rebrand as Headline cemented our decade-long
partnership with our global fund teams in the US, Europe, and Latin America for
a combined AUM of over USD $2 Billion,” says Headline Asia Founder and Partner,
Akio Tanaka, “We hope to deliver a unique global
perspective to local investments in Asia, and look forward to growing with the
next generation of great entrepreneurs.”

Headline Asia invests globally across
the internet technology sector at Seed and Series A stages with a focus on
e-commerce, logistics, and FinTech, including unicorns they supported from the
Seed Stage, such as freee k.k., Yeahka, and WealthNavi. The fund backs
entrepreneurs who are addressing consumer pain points, disrupting the market,
and shifting the paradigm in the internet technology sector.

“With the new fund, we are joined
by experienced, world class partners and advisors who led the first investment
in Alibaba, have managed a FinTech fund for Japan‘s largest corporate
bank, or been behind most of the major tech IPOs in Japan,” says Headline Asia
Partner Joseph Huang. “With the expanded team capacity and our
proprietary deal sourcing software, we are finding great investment
opportunities at a breakneck speed.”

Headline Asia Partners include Akihiko
Okamoto, former Chief Investment Officer of MUFG Innovation Partners and Hong
Lu, founding chairman at
SoftBank China Venture Capital. Koichi Maruo joined this year as advisor; Kochi‘s past experience
includes acting as the former Senior Executive Managing Director in Charge of Corporate Banking and Corporate Planning at Daiwa Securities.