Japanese footballer swapping football for venture capital fund
Having just retired after a heart-breaking World Cup exit to Belgium in the round of 16, Keisuke Honda is swapping football for finance, having launched a new venture capital fund with Hollywood actor Will Smith. The fund will aim to invest in start-ups addressing social problems in the US and Japan. Japanese brokerage giant Nomura Holdings will act as the anchor investor. Having played in the Netherlands, and seeing some of his teammates sending high proportions of their salaries as remittances back to their home countries, Honda always felt compelled to act and try to make a difference within society.

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on 5 October 2021