FFG Venture Business Partners

FFG Venture Business Partners is the corporate venture capital arm of Fukuoka Financial Group, based in Fukuoka, Japan. Founded in 2016, it functions as a regional bank venture capital unit that provides strategic funding to startups and growth companies. The firm seeks investments across life science, fintech, deep tech, energy, space, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, consumer services and mobility sectors, with a focus on opportunities in and around Fukuoka. It aligns startup innovation with the parent group's financial services ecosystem, delivering capital and strategic value to accelerate growth and foster collaboration between the corporate group and external ventures.

Satoshi Fukuda

Representative Director

Isao Haseo

General Manager, Investment Division

Past deals in OLED

KOALA Tech

Series B in 2024
KOALA Tech is a high-tech company based in Fukuoka, Japan, focused on developing organic semiconductor laser diodes. Founded in 2019, it aims to enable practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode realized at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University. The company's laser diode technology is based on organic fluorescent semiconductors, which are generally easier to process into thin films, offering a potentially low-cost light source that can be integrated with organic light-emitting diode and other organic electronic platforms.

KOALA Tech

Venture Round in 2021
KOALA Tech is a high-tech company based in Fukuoka, Japan, focused on developing organic semiconductor laser diodes. Founded in 2019, it aims to enable practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode realized at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University. The company's laser diode technology is based on organic fluorescent semiconductors, which are generally easier to process into thin films, offering a potentially low-cost light source that can be integrated with organic light-emitting diode and other organic electronic platforms.
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