Development Bank of Japan Inc. (DBJ), Mitsubishi UFJ Lease – Finance Company Limited (Mitsubishi UFJ Lease) and Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd. (FGL) have entered into an investment agreement in Airbus Ventures Fund III LP, a capital fund newly introduced through Airbus Ventures, the venture capital corporation of Airbus SE.
Airbus Ventures was created through aerospace industry leader Airbus SE to search and invest in start-ups or expanding with disruptive technologies and the prospect of achieving significant industry adjustments. As of 2016, its investment reach includes, but is not limited to, autonomous mobility, electrification, next-generation computing, complex materials, reflecting the expansion of the diversity of critical technologies and new players impacting the competitive aerospace landscape. Airbus Ventures invests globally in these sectors, capitalizing on its deep knowledge of complex technologies; close relationships with various venture capital firms, mainly located in Silicon Valley; and proactive value-added activities for corporations in its portfolio, employing the dense networks of Airbus and its group’s corporations. Considering Japan as a central base in the Asia-Pacific region, Airbus Ventures has opened a workplace in Tokyo and is actively looking for investment opportunities in Japanese start-ups who want to expand their business abroad.
Development Bank of Japan Inc.
DBJ has been supporting the expansion of the Japanese aviation industry by offering loans and equity for more than 40 years. To further expand its activities to the area industry, DBJ established its aerospace workplace in April 2017 and actively promoted the progression of Japan’s aerospace industry, conducting studies and providing financing for its competitiveness.
Through its investment in Airbus Ventures, DBJ aims to facilitate state-of-the-art aerospace knowledge, foster innovation and make an additional contribution to the next phase of industry expansion. In addition, DBJ will help expand the expansion wave technologies that are emerging in Japan as a result of the Fund’s investments, technologies that can have an effect on various industries and revitalize Japan’s regional economies.
DBJ aims to actively innovation in Japanese industries based on its corporate philosophy: designing the long term with monetary experience: proceed to expand monetary boundaries; Provide the most productive responses for consumers and society To seek sustainable progress for Japan and the world.
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease – Finance Company Limited
In its medium-term control plan, ‘Sustainable Growth 2030’, unveiled in April 2020, Mitsubishi UFJ Lease uses its resources in spaces involving responses to social problems, adding global assets, social infrastructure and renewable energy as a corporate advertising asset platform. With this investment, Mitsubishi UFJ Lease aims to expand its business into new spaces by helping corporations use their extensive networks with global assets and social infrastructure.
In the aerospace industry, there are new commercial opportunities, such as the progression of electric aircraft, new fabrics and select fuels. Mitsubishi UFJ Lease will aim to bring you closer to cutting-edge experience and expertise through investment, and will expand a new business style by combining this new wisdom with the existing experience Mitsubishi UFJ Lease Group has developed over the years.
Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd.
In its medium-term control plan “Border Expansion 2021”, the FGL Group considers “aviation” as one of its strategic spaces. Through its investment in the Fund, FGL will expand its business by capturing global innovation trends in the aerospace industry as well as complex knowledge. In addition, since the generation in which the fund invests is expected to have a wide range of impacts, not only limited to the aerospace industry, it will also be used to fine-tune applicable wisdom and expand the Group’s activity spaces.
The FGL Group is actively concerned with solving social upheavals and at the same time implementing its concept of CSV (Shared Value Creation) for expansion as a company, running to expand business spaces and give a contribution to the creation of a sustainable society.
Airbus Ventures
“Since its inception, Airbus Ventures has embraced the legacy of its parent company Airbus in adaptive innovation, systems, thinking and foreign mindset,” said Thomas d’Halluin, managing partner of Airbus Ventures. “Based on this legacy,” Thomas continues, “Airbus Ventures largely supports corporations in its portfolio in order to better understand, consolidate and advertise the corporations of its founders. For the expansion of all our marketers around the world, as we continue to climb to Airbus Ventures Fund III 2020, and are committed to our shared project to drive the rise of humanity from the Z axis, from the ground to the deep space.
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