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Finding, supporting, and nurturing venture firms
To revitalize Japanese society
Message from the president
TNP Partners Corporation was established in October 2000 by a group of members (i.e., the partners) who shared a burning desire to assist the growth of venture firms and a firm determination to fulfill a mission: to heighten the corporate value of companies supported, help to invigorate the economy, and build a Japanese edition of Silicon Valley through activities originating in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange was instituted toward the end of 1999, and the year 2000 therefore heralded the launch of a market for newly emerging stocks in Japan. There are high hopes for the rise of innovative venture firms to drive growth into the next age.
In any age, innovation born by boldly taking up challenges has discovered new economic value, stimulated the economy, and enriched society. The key role in innovation has been played not by the leading companies of the day, but by venture firms that carve out a new frontier.
These days, selection and concentration are being emphasized in the context of corporate strategy, but proper concentration is impossible without numerous options for selection. Innovation in particular can only come from diverse challenge. Prior to selection and concentration, companies therefore need an environment enabling them to take up a variety of challenges.
The situation demands an eco-system inducing innovation as the social environment empowering diverse challenge. This sort of ecosystem, in turn, requires equity capital. Companies cannot continue to take up all kinds of challenges unless this equity capital is not only fully sufficient in amount but also underpinned by a mechanism for its circulation. The eco-system inducing innovation operates on the basis of an ample supply of equity capital and its sound circulation.
We are committed to finding, supporting, and nurturing venture firms toward our goal of revitalizing Japanese society by helping to build a society that appreciates diverse challenge, encourages its members to learn from failures instead of punishing them for the same, and has a high tolerance for risk, as well as by assisting the operation of an eco-system that supports both people who take up challenges and their challenges, and induces innovation.
- TNP Partners Corporation
Chief Executive Officer - Masatoshi Go
TNP Group
In keeping with the spirit of the NPO Venture Support Mechanism TSUNAMI (the current Venture Support Mechanism MINERVA), the TNP Group is engaged in activities focused on the creation of a network to nurture and support venture firms as a new-concept type of venture capital.
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TNP Partners
CorporationProspectus
Originally, Venture Support Mechanism “TSUNAMI” (later approved as a Non-Profit Organization-NPO) MINERVA was organized out of a partnership between Kanagawa Prefecture and local private companies and started in August 2000. It's objective was to create momentum based on inviting promising venture companies and the one hand, and excellent private resources on the other within Kanagawa Prefecture, in order for them to connect with each other and give life to the catchphrase: “Sourcing, supporting and nurturing venture companies to bring Kanagawa’s future alive.” MINERVA’s mission is to facilitate effective and continuous source, support for and nurturing of venture companies, especially those in Research and Development fields. MINERVA has the goal of bringing synergies from the private sector in Japan in cooperation with and complementing the “Local Platform” envisioned by Kanagawa Prefecture as a total, supportive system. Finally, to promote “MINERVA” activity further and in detail, the firm of TNP Partners Corporation (TNP) was established.
Mission and purpose
TNP’s mission is three-fold. First, to “raise the value of the supported venture companies.” Secondly, “to activate the economy”. Third, “to construct a Japanese comparable to Silicon Valley in Kanagawa” These goals are carried out by the participation of members (partners) based on their passion for supporting venture companies. As this activity is built upon, the basic purpose of TNP is achieved and its value is thereby generated, inevitably leading to TNP’s own prosperity.
Business philosophy
TNP’s activity, as a fresh, new paradigm of Japanese venture capital, centers on supporting venture companies and expanding its network, founded upon the philosophy of the Venture Support Mechanism MINERVA”, which has been established through collaboration between Kanagawa Prefecture and private companies. TNP works to establish such partnership of Industry, Government and Academia. “MINERVA” promotes this activity as a local business incubation platform and works as within the framework of cross-pollination of networks thus giving rise to the corporate value of the participants. TNP aims to generate a revival of the Japanese economy attributable to positive change of the Japanese industrial dynamic within Kanagawa, in addition to bringing about the Japanese “Silicon Valley” by promoting a “Creative Circle” comprised of people, resources, money and information. Such a mechanism increases the success rates of corporate growth and of the entrepreneurs themselves. In a nutshell, TNP’s three main pillars of business are a) planning and managing “MINERVA”; b) building and sustaining a vibrant network; and c) venture capital. Synergistic effect results from the dynamic interplay of all three.
Business Activities
Plan and management of Venture Support Mechanism MINERVA
Create and supply total across-the-board network
Value-creating venture capital businessCompany Information
- Company Name
- TNP Partners Corporation
- Representative
- Chief Executive Officer Masatoshi Go
- Address
- Shin-yokohama Square Bldg.14F, 2-3-12 Shin-yokohama, Kouhoku-ku,Yokohama-City, Kanagawa 222-0033, Janan
- Capital Stock
- 100,000,000 yen
- Foundation
- September 7, 2000
- Stockholders
- Masatoshi Go, Katsuhiro Yamashita, etc.
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TNP On The Road
TNP On The Road Corporation was established as a network-based hands-on venture capital company with a focus on further developing new industries and Japan, and R&D-oriented venture businesses based on full utilization of know-how, accumulated for five years by TNP, on how to effectively uncover, support and nurture said companies and networks which support them.
Business Philosophy
- 1) As a manager of risk capital, be a venture capital company based on creating new industries.
- 2) Contribute to economic development, as well as growth and expansion of society through such creation of new industries.
- 3) Taking a role in being a driver of society-at-large, public aspects as well as public benefits.
Nature of Business
Network-based hands-on venture capital
Key features of TOR
- 1) TOR has continued to build a unique infrastructure, including MINERVA and gathered by people, resources, money and information from around the world.
- 2) TOR has capabilities to position it's portfolio companies in a rapid manner via various networks and can engineer this business model
- 3) TOR has the ability to engage in effective risk management of it's portfolio companies due to the constant proximity of information on it's companies which it keeps updated and close.
As the results,
- ◇ Excellent and concentrated investment target could be possible.
- ◇ Mechanism by hands-on management controls people, goods, funds and collect information.
- ◇ Risk management becomes possible and it maximizes corporate value through hands-on.
- ◇ Investment with high leverage is possible at the beginning of 'seed stage'.
Company Information
- Company Name
- TNP On The Road Corporation
- Representative
- Chief Executive Officer Masatoshi Go
- Address
- Shin-yokohama Square Bldg.14F, 2-3-12 Shin-yokohama, Kouhoku-ku,Yokohama-City, Kanagawa 222-0033, Janan
- Capital Stock
- 50,000,000 yen
- Foundation
- April 5, 2005
- Stockholders
- TNP Partners
- Managing Fund
- TNP Small/Medium Size & Venture Enterprises Growth Promotion Investment Limited Partnership
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TNP Threads Of Light
Business Overview
TNP Threads Of Light Corporation is established to run a new venture capital fund under TNP-Group. Taking advantage of the Know-How and network that TNP have forged and joining new members who have much further professionality, TTL is discovering supporting and developing venture businesses focus on innovative technologies contributing to creation of new market to achieve Society 5.0
Company Information
- Company Name
- TNP Threads Of Light Corporation
- Representative
- Chief Executive Officer Masatoshi Go
- Address
- Shin-yokohama Square Bldg.14F, 2-3-12 Shin-yokohama, Kouhoku-ku,Yokohama-City, Kanagawa 222-0033, Janan
- Capital Stock
- 30,000,000 yen
- Foundation
- July 4, 2016
- Stockholders
- TNP Partners
- Managing Fund
- TNP Threads of Light Investment Limited Partnership
Access
Shin-yokohama Square Bldg.14F, 2-3-12 Shin-yokohama, Kouhoku-ku,Yokohama-City, Kanagawa 222-0033, Janan
Contact Us
- TEL
- +81-45-285-2859
- info@tnp-g.jp