Japan: Panasonic Corporation to launch VC arm with $100m corpus

Japan: Panasonic Corporation to launch VC arm with $100m corpus

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Panasonic Corporation, which is has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exhange and a secondary listing on the Nagoya bourse, is establishing a new company, Panasonic Ventures, LLC, in April 2017. The new California-based venture capital (VC) firm will invest in US startups, with an initial corpus of $100 million.

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