Overview

What they do
Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, Inc., is a strategic corporate investor and an active local business partner for Internet-based U.S. technology companies expanding into the Japanese and Asian marketplace. It is offering capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, and localization to companies in the U.S. technology sector. Transcosmos Investments' portfolios, which focus on companies specializing in digital marketing, e-commerce and digital media, include such brand names as Ask.com, DoubleClick Inc., RealNetworks Inc., NetRatings Inc., Atom/Shockwave Entertainment, Inc., Become, Inc., Pheedo, Inc. and Brightcove, Inc.
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What they look for
transcosmos has invested and partnered with several hundred startups and companies in Internet / Digital fields since 1995. The balance between direct and fund commitments serves its dual mandate: strategic insight into adjacent technologies and financial return on family-directed capital.
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Stage
Seed, Series A, Series B+
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Sectors
Consumer, Marketing and sales, SaaS, Fintech, AI, Media
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Based
Mountain View, US
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Sources

2026-09-03rho.coTransCosmos is a corporate investor and strategic business partner with a focus on advertising…
2026-09-03trans-cosmos.co.jptranscosmos launched its operations in 1966. Since then, we have combined superior “people”…
2026-09-03transcosmos.comtranscosmos has invested and partnered with several hundred startups and companies in Internet…
2026-09-03trans-cosmos.co.jpShinichi Nagakura - the company's senior corporate executive officer and in charge of…

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