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Global Brain

SHIBUYA AXSH 7F, 2-17-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo, 150-0002, Japan

Overview

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain has managed a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Total investments
143
Lead investments
32
Investments · 12mo
21
Active investors
12

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Flexential

    Participated · Debt Financing · Aug 2026

    Flexential offers customizable IT and data center solutions for high-density computing needs, delivering services including colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, and professional services through its FlexAnywhere® platform. The company operates 40 data centers across 18 highly connected markets on a scalable 100+ Gbps private network backbone. Flexential positions its offerings to meet stringent security, compliance, and resiliency requirements for complex enterprise customers. The company is expanding capacity to meet growing enterprise and AI-driven demand and is investing ahead of customer needs. Its recent $800 million credit facility, supported by an 11-bank syndicate and equity sponsors GI Partners and MSIP, will fund more than 130 MW of new capacity across four key markets. Ongoing projects named in the financing include facilities in Atlanta-Douglasville, Portland-Hillsboro, Denver-Parker, and an expansion near Atlanta-Norcross.

  • Centricity

    Led · Series A · Aug 2026

    Founded in 2022 by former Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Kotak and 360 ONE WAM executives, Centricity offers a technology-led wealth management platform that gives advisors and distributors access to mutual funds, insurance, bonds, portfolio management services, alternative investment funds, broking, GIFT City opportunities and offshore investment solutions. Its platform automates portfolio consolidation, reporting, risk analytics and investment monitoring to help advisors and family offices manage multi-product, multi-region portfolios. Three years after founding, Centricity reports over ₹15,000 crore in assets under management, more than 20,000 partners, over 100,000 investors and relationships with more than 250 family offices, with 60% of assets generating recurring revenue. The company says its business grew nearly 200% year-over-year and is on track to surpass ₹150 crore in revenue in FY27. Centricity has expanded internationally via Centricity Global Private Client to serve non-resident Indians and global investors through GIFT City and DIFC offerings and plans to scale its private-banker headcount domestically and for NRI business as part of its growth strategy.

  • JIJ

    Led · Equity · Aug 2026

    JIJ builds a quantum- and AI-enabled optimization platform and related software (including the JijZept suite, OpenJij, and the Qamomile quantum programming language) to support the full optimization lifecycle from model formulation through execution and continuous improvement. The company has developed more than 60 use cases across industries such as manufacturing, transportation, telecommunications, energy, logistics, materials development, and the public sector. JijZept AI entered beta in early 2026 and is being developed into a cloud-based AI agent service with an SDK and sandbox for AI-assisted modeling, numerical experiments, and eventual support for quantum programming. JIJ is also developing middleware for gate-based quantum computing through government-backed R&D and participates in global quantum industry ecosystems. The company plans to expand enterprise deployments of mathematical optimization, strengthen research and engineering teams, and accelerate international growth; it established JIJ Europe Ltd. in 2025 and JIJ GmbH in 2026 and is scaling activities in the United States. Financially, JIJ closed this equity financing of JPY 840 million (approx. US$5.2 million) to fund product development, deployment scaling, and global expansion.

  • Pure Data Centres

    Participated · Debt Financing · Jul 2026

    Pure Data Centres acquires land and develops large-scale data centre campuses which it then leases to hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon to host AI and cloud workloads. The company is backed by Oaktree Capital and operates assets including sites in Dublin, Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi. Pure DC is investing over €1 billion in a 78MW Amsterdam campus that is reported to be fully leased to Microsoft and comprises three 85-metre towers. The Amsterdam project is expected to create over 1,000 jobs, though there is no firm operational date reported. Management has signaled aggressive expansion plans across Europe and the Middle East supported by the recent $2.7 billion financing, while also noting a pause in some Middle East investments amid the Iran war. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

  • Starlight Engine

    Led · Equity · Jul 2026

    Starlight Engine was established in April 2025 as a group company of Kyoto Fusioneering and is focused on advancing fusion energy through its FAST project. FAST is a privately led, industry–academia initiative that adopts a tokamak configuration and aims to demonstrate fusion power generation in the 2030s by generating and sustaining D–T burning plasma and demonstrating integrated power generation and fuel-cycle systems. The project has completed its conceptual design and is currently moving into engineering design and construction preparations. SLE is coordinating with leading fusion researchers and a wide set of private-sector partners and universities to develop the project and domestic supply chains. The company plans to use newly raised funds to accelerate engineering and technology development, site selection, regulatory processes, supply chain development, and organizational expansion. SLE intends to grow its headcount to about 200 employees over the next two years as it advances toward fusion power demonstration and future commercial plants.

Team

  • yasuhiko yurimoto

    Founder & President & CEO & Board Member

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  • Jooil Hong

    Partner South Korea Office Representative

  • Rajeev Ranka

    Principal

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  • Keiji Matsunaga

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