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Alumni Ventures starts from a simple conviction: our job is to build and use network-powered venture capital to back the best founders in the world. After a decade of doing this from the United States – home to the world’s largest venture ecosystem – Alumni Ventures is now expanding this network to new offices and teams in London, Tokyo, and launching our new Global Bridge Fund series in 2026.

Alumni Ventures, one of TIME Magazine’s Top 20 VC Firms in America, today announced the formation of strategic partnerships in Japan with KDDI, one of Japan’s leading telecommunications companies, and UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd. (UTokyo IPC), a subsidiary of the University of Tokyo, Japan’s premier public university focused on driving innovation, to accelerate cross-border growth of startups in Japan and the United States. The launch of these relationships represents a cutting-edge strategy designed to provide a bridge between the two venture capital ecosystems, invigorating startups to collaborate on a global scale with innovative technologies and services.