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SBI Holdings, NTUitive, Kyobo Life Insurance launch US$75m VC fund

Claudia Chong
Published Thu, May 19, 2022 · 09:00 AM
    • (from left) Hee Jin Shin, director and head of venture capital at Kyobo Securities; Ryosuke Hayashi, managing director and CEO at SBI Ven Capital; David Toh, CEO of NTUitive. NTUitive and Kyobo Securities will not play a fund management role but will have representatives on the fund’s investment committee.
    • (from left) Hee Jin Shin, director and head of venture capital at Kyobo Securities; Ryosuke Hayashi, managing director and CEO at SBI Ven Capital; David Toh, CEO of NTUitive. NTUitive and Kyobo Securities will not play a fund management role but will have representatives on the fund’s investment committee. Kyobo Securities; SBI Ven Capital; NTUitive

    JAPANESE financial services group SBI Holdings, the owner of Japan’s largest online brokerage, is aiming to raise US$75 million for its new fund to invest in digital opportunities in South-east Asia and South Asia.

    SBI Holdings, which oversees over US$5.69 billion in assets, said its venture capital (VC) arm SBI Ven Capital (SBIVC) will manage the fund.

    The fund’s 2 other general partners are NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and Kyobo Securities, the securities brokerage arm of South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Group.

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