Macnica, Inc. Launches Corporate Venture Capital Initiatives
August 31 2015 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
- Strategic
Investments for Global Business Alliance and New Business Creation
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Macnica, Inc. (President and CEO, Kiyoshi Nakashima, with its
corporate headquarters in Yokohama, Japan) announced the
establishment of a venture capital initiative called Macnica
Ventures. Macnica Ventures plans to seek strategic investments in
ventures with unique business models and promising technologies.
Macnica will collaborate and support these ventures to create new
markets and businesses. Macnica’s office in San Jose, CA (Macnica
Networks USA, Inc.) will search for investment opportunities and
coordinate with its headquarters while the investment will be
managed through its captive fund called Macnica Investment
Partners.
Macnica Ventures’ investment areas range from ICT markets, where
the technology and business model innovations are expected to
accelerate, to emerging technologies, where Macnica could breed new
business areas for the group’s long-term growth. We expect the
strategic investments will aid in expanding our current business
areas as well as enhancing our ability to create new
businesses.
As a leading global distributor of advanced technology products
ranging from semiconductors to network products and services,
Macnica has acted as a significant partner to over 300 venture
companies. As a distribution partner, our business model for growth
is intimately tied to the growth of our partners or technology
producers. In semiconductors, we have worked with many leading
companies from their start-up phases in our mutual efforts to
create and nurture new markets. In the IT network equipment and
software areas, we have introduced innovative products in big data,
cloud, and security to the Japanese markets and created new market
needs through our “Demand Creation” drives.
Macnica’s investment activities started in 1996 through
investments in venture capital funds. By the early 2000s, our
investment activities included direct investments into start-ups to
add a new dimension in supporting our partner companies beyond
distribution. Macnica Ventures seeks to integrate our capabilities
in the business of distribution and investments in providing a new
framework to create new markets and businesses with innovative
ventures.
While Macnica Ventures will have core operations in Silicon
Valley, its geographic investment horizon is global. It is flexible
in investment stages, ranging from early to late stages, depending
on the development stages of our partner companies and the optimum
stages for collaboration. Furthermore, Macnica Ventures plans to
deepen its relationships with the venture capital industry,
including cooperation with venture capital firms, to search for new
growth areas and innovation.
About Macnica, Inc.
Since its establishment in 1972, Macnica, Inc. has acted as a
technology-based distributor as well as a solution provider of
electronic components and IT network equipment and software. Along
with a broad offering of electronic and network products, we
provide value-added solutions through our expertise in leading edge
technologies. Furthermore, our service and support are based on the
latest market trends and customer needs information as well as
application support and design services. Macnica, Inc. has
headquarters in Yokohama, Japan with operations in China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, Brazil,
and Germany.http://www.macnica.co.jp/en/
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