<article>Japan&#8217;s oncology pharmaceutical company <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.taiho.co.jp/english/">Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd</a>. (TPC) has launched a US-based venture capital (VC) arm <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.taiho.co.jp/english/">Taiho Ventures, LLC.</a></article>

Japan&#8217;s oncology pharmaceutical company <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.taiho.co.jp/english/">Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd</a>. (TPC) has launched a US-based venture capital (VC) arm <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.taiho.co.jp/english/">Taiho Ventures, LLC.</a>
Based in California, the new firm will make an initial investments &#8211; from a pooled fund of $50 million &#8211; in startups focussed on discovering and developing products that treat cancer, said the company in a press statement.
“Taiho Ventures will be investing globally in startup companies that discover and develop innovative therapeutic products and/or drug-enabling platform technologies that demonstrate a clear potential to benefit cancer patients,” said the company.
In June, TPC had committed an investment of $30 million in <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.remigesventures.com/">Remiges BioPharma Fund</a> through Remiges’s US–Japan cross border investment team.
Taiho has been tapping into the US and Europe biotech startup community to catalyze the company’s R&amp;D.  Taiho Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of <a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.taihooncology.com/us/">Taiho Oncology, Inc</a>.
Taiho has a long history of developing new therapeutic options to serve the needs of oncologists and cancer patients.
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