Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (NVCC) describes itself in Japanese as an independent and neutral venture capital firm (独立中立型のベンチャーキャピタル) and a support-type venture capital firm (支援型の本格ベンチャーキャピタル), and positions itself as an "Open Innovation Platformer" mediating between startups, large corporations and academia (スタートアップ×大手企業×アカデミア). Its English Corporate Profile states its investment focus is "Japanese early-stage companies". The firm says it applies a network centred on large corporations together with the experience it has built running university-linked funds through industry-academia collaboration, and its published fund list includes named university and regional vehicles for Kyoto University, Osaka University, Doshisha University, the Nagoya University and Tokai-area universities, ATR in Keihanna, and several prefectural programmes. It is headquartered in Marunouchi, Tokyo, with a Nihonbashi annex and a West Japan office in Osaka.
1,110.7億円 (approx. JPY 111.07bn; the firm's own English Corporate Profile prints "Total Asset under Management JPY 111,070,000,000 for 29 funds" as of 16 June 2026. That aggregates fund vintage sizes across the firm's whole history: its own Japanese table shows only 7 of 30 funds marked 運用中, summing to 345.7億円 or about JPY 34.6bn, roughly 31 per cent of the headline) AUM71/100 Power Score™1996 FoundedTokyo, Japan
Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is established on 1 February 1996; the firm's own 代表挨拶 page says the founding members were entrepreneurs who had themselves built successful ventures and executives of large companies committed to supporting ventures.
1996
NVCC1号投資事業組合, the firm's first fund, is formed on 1 May 1996 at 141億円 (JPY 14.1bn); the fund list records it as 清算結了 (wound up).
2006
NVCC6号投資事業有限責任組合 is formed on 1 July 2006 at 138億円 (JPY 13.8bn), the largest fund in the published list after the first.
2009
Shuichi Okuhara, who joined NVCC in 1998 and became 取締役投資部長 in 2008, is appointed 代表取締役 in April 2009.
2019
Minoru Tagaya, who joined NVCC in 2000, is appointed 代表取締役社長.
2022
Portfolio company ANYCOLOR Inc. lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on 8 June 2022, announced on NVCC's news page.
2024
NVCC10号投資事業有限責任組合 is established on 28 June 2024 with a stated ファンド総額 of 90億円 (90 x JPY 100 million = JPY 9.0bn).
2025
NVCC states a cumulative IPO total of 174 portfolio companies (IPO累計社数 174) as of 24 December 2025, the date PRONI Inc. listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.
2026
The firm's English Corporate Profile, dated AS OF JUNE 16th, 2026, states total assets under management of JPY 111,070,000,000 across 29 funds and 20 employees.