Japanese hands-on venture capital firm
, commonly referred to as GCP, is a Japanese private hands-on venture capital firm headquartered in Banchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. GCP is part of the Globis Group. As of April 2023, GCP manages a cumulative fund size of over ¥180 billion JPY (approximately $1.3 billion USD).
History.
In 1996 Yoshito Hori founded Globis Capital Partners (GCP) as a hands-on venture capital business inside Globis Corporation to support Japanese startup portfolio companies That same year an initial 540 million yen GLOBIS Incubation Fund was raised. Globis Corporation, Yoshito Hori as general partner, and Soichi Kariyazono as managing partner contributed a combined 40 million yen to the fund. The remaining amount was covered by institutional investors and other companies, including about $1 million invested by Sega Enterprises’ chairman Isao Okawa. 
In 1999 Alan Patricof, the head of Apax Patricof selected Globis as a local partner in Japan to create Apax Globis Partners &amp; Co. (AGP), a joint VC. The resulting Apax Globis Japan Fund raised $187 million.
In 2004, Apax Globis Partners &amp; Co. changed its name to Globis Capital Partners. In 2006, GLOBIS Fund III was raised. Globis Capital Partners Co., Ltd. was established as an independent advisory company to oversee the fund, becoming a separate entity from Globis Corporation.
Four additional funds were raised in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022. Globis Capital Partners reached a cumulative fund size of over ¥180 billion JPY (approximately $1.3 billion) with investments in over 200 Japanese companies in 2023.
In 2019 GCP established G-STARTUP, a startup accelerator program aimed at producing 100 unicorn companies. By 2023 the program had provided support to 173 startups.
On January 14, 2020, GCP announced the formation of GCP X, a specialized value-added team tasked organizational development, CXO-level recruitment support, and operational support.
Globis Fund VII LP became the biggest private equity fund launched in 2022 that includes Japan as geographic focus. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) disclosed that same year that it would invest in Globis Capital Partners’ latest VC fund, a first in Japan.
In April 2024 GCP established a local office in San Francisco to support the global expansion of its portfolio companies.
See also.
Yoshito Hori 
References.
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