{"id":16714,"date":"2021-08-03T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/03\/headline-asia-announces-the-close-of-fund-4-at-over-100-million\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:15:00","slug":"headline-asia-announces-the-close-of-fund-4-at-over-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/03\/headline-asia-announces-the-close-of-fund-4-at-over-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline Asia Announces the Close of Fund 4 at Over $100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">TOKYO, JAPAN &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 3 August 2021 &#8211; On July 31, 2021, early-stage&#13;<br \/>\nventure capital firm Headline Asia (formerly known as Infinity Ventures) has&#13;<br \/>\nannounced they will close their fourth fund at over $100 Million. In May 2021,&#13;<br \/>\nInfinity Ventures and e.ventures rebranded as a single firm, Headline, to&#13;<br \/>\ninvest together globally in innovative internet technology companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">A number of previous institutional&#13;<br \/>\ninvestors returned for Fund 4, including the National Development Fund of&#13;<br \/>\nTaiwan, Abico Group, and Otto Group of Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/>&#8220;<\/span>Our new rebrand as Headline cemented our decade-long&#13;<br \/>\npartnership with our global fund teams in the US, Europe, and Latin America for&#13;<br \/>\na combined AUM of over USD $2 Billion,&#8221; says Headline Asia Founder and Partner,&#13;<br \/>\nAkio Tanaka, <span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/>&#8220;<\/span>We hope to deliver a unique global&#13;<br \/>\nperspective to local investments in Asia, and look forward to growing with the&#13;<br \/>\nnext generation of great entrepreneurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Headline Asia invests globally across&#13;<br \/>\nthe internet technology sector at Seed and Series A stages with a focus on&#13;<br \/>\ne-commerce, logistics, and FinTech, including unicorns they supported from the&#13;<br \/>\nSeed Stage, such as freee k.k.,\u00a0Yeahka, and WealthNavi. The fund backs&#13;<br \/>\nentrepreneurs who are addressing consumer pain points, disrupting the market,&#13;<br \/>\nand shifting the paradigm in the internet technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">&#8220;With the new fund, we are joined&#13;<br \/>\nby experienced, world class partners and advisors who led the first investment&#13;<br \/>\nin Alibaba, have managed a FinTech fund for Japan<span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/>&#8216;<\/span>s largest corporate&#13;<br \/>\nbank, or been behind most of the major tech IPOs in Japan,&#8221; says Headline Asia&#13;<br \/>\nPartner Joseph Huang. <span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/>&#8220;<\/span>With the expanded team capacity and our&#13;<br \/>\nproprietary deal sourcing software, we are finding great investment&#13;<br \/>\nopportunities at a breakneck speed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Headline Asia Partners include Akihiko&#13;<br \/>\nOkamoto, former Chief Investment Officer of MUFG Innovation Partners and Hong&#13;<br \/>\nLu, founding chairman at&#13;<br \/>\nSoftBank China Venture Capital. Koichi Maruo joined this year as advisor; Kochi<span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"\/><span dir=\"RTL\"\/>&#8216;<\/span>s past experience&#13;<br \/>\nincludes acting as the former Senior Executive Managing Director in Charge of Corporate Banking and Corporate Planning at Daiwa Securities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-03\/88719\/headline-asia-announces-the-close-of-fund-4-at-over-100-million\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, JAPAN &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 3 August 2021 &#8211; On July 31, 2021, early-stage&#13; venture capital firm Headline Asia (formerly known as Infinity Ventures) has&#13; announced they will close their fourth fund at over $100 Million. 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