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2025.11.20 / PRESS RELEASE
TAKAGI Partners Invests in Okinawa-Based Venture Capital Fund “Tsuryo Fund”
TAKAGI Partners Co., Ltd., operated by the TAKAGI Group as a co-investing venture capital firm, is pleased to announce its investment in the “Tsuryo Fund” (Tsuryo Fund No. 1 Investment Limited Partnership). Established in March this year by FOURSEAS Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo, Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture; Representative Director: Kenichiro Toyosato), the fund primarily invests in and supports seed-stage startups.
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Supporting Growth Industries in Okinawa, the Hub Connecting Japan and Asia
The Tsuryo Fund is a venture capital firm aiming to revitalize the regional economy through supporting startups originating from Okinawa. Leveraging networks and expertise cultivated through operating startup support facilities in Okinawa City, it provides seed-stage companies with funding, specialized knowledge, and connections. By pooling capital from companies within the prefecture, it aims to return profits and know-how generated through growth back to the region, creating a virtuous cycle for industry. We focus on next-generation growth sectors like tourism, transportation, energy, GX (Green Transformation), and healthcare, while also supporting ventures expanding into markets outside Okinawa and overseas. Embracing the Ryukyu Kingdom’s spirit of “Banshō” (a bridge connecting all nations), we strive to create new core industries as a bridge linking Japan and Asia.
The TAKAGI Group operates “BIRTH,” a life creation brand that explores the future of real estate by fostering connections with the community, environment, and education. Starting from the coworking space “BIRTH LAB / WORK” in Azabujuban, Tokyo, we are forming a community where talent and companies from diverse fields—IT, creative industries, public-private partnerships, education, finance, HR, and more—gather. This serves as fertile ground for startup support. It fosters not only relationships with the TAKAGI Group but also collaborations among members, generating new synergies.
Furthermore, it promotes the creation of gathering places through both software and hardware approaches, such as collaborations with food and beverage companies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and the mixed-use project “SALON 91°” in Ginza, Tokyo. Furthermore, leveraging the community-building and collaborative expertise cultivated by the TAKAGI Group, we engage in comprehensive partnerships with local governments and public-private projects in Taiwan. We are expanding our business beyond the real estate industry we have built since our founding, aiming to create new value in real estate.
The TAKAGI Group aims to become a bridge between Japan and Asia through startup support in Okinawa, accompanying the “Tsuryo Fund” in its endeavors.
Comment from the Representative
Tsuryo Fund / FOURSEAS Co., Ltd.
Kenichiro Toyosato, Representative Director
“We are truly delighted to welcome TAKAGI Partners as a strong partner. Their expertise in creating new value through community building centered on people makes them an ideal partner for our fund. Their commitment to valuing the challenges of each individual who gathers in these spaces will be a tremendous encouragement for entrepreneurs. We hope to continue cultivating fertile ground for new challenges to emerge from Okinawa to Japan and Asia, leveraging their insights.”
TAKAGI Group / Takagi Building Co., Ltd.
Representative Director: Hidekuni Takagi
“With the spirit of ‘Banshō Tsuryō,’ we will pioneer the future from Okinawa. We are deeply proud to take this first step alongside the Tsuryo Fund. Accompanying passionate, locally rooted entrepreneurs in their challenges to create new value and industries is the mission of our TAKAGI Group. We will pour our expertise in “connecting people and places,” cultivated through our BIRTH initiatives and public-private partnerships, to jointly pioneer a future where Okinawa-born innovation spreads across Japan, Asia, and the world. Our encounter with the Tsuryo Fund marks the beginning of a new voyage for us as well, and we feel great anticipation and joy in embarking on this journey together.
Yuta Aoki, Investment Operations, TAKAGI Group
We are grateful for this opportunity to invest in the Tsuryo Fund. Our connection with Four Seasons stems from Takagi Building’s participation as a consortium member in the “2024 Okinawa Core Talent Development Project,” where we worked to cultivate community managers in Okinawa. Through this project, we were deeply impressed by the years of dedicated effort Okinawa’s community has invested in developing its startup ecosystem. We are delighted to have contributed to the ecosystem’s growth. We will continue to offer our support, however modest it may be.”
