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Tokyo Century

Tokyo Century Corporation, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a diversified non-banking financial firm specializing in leasing and various financing services. The company provides leasing and installment sales for a wide range of equipment, including IT-related, industrial, medical, construction, and commercial machinery. In addition to these core services, Tokyo Century offers financing for ships, aviation, and real estate, as well as account receivable financing and securitization. The firm is also engaged in solar power generation and sales, automobile rental and leasing, and provides ancillary services such as PC refurbishment, property management, casualty insurance, and business processing. With an international presence, including operations in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, Tokyo Century is constantly exploring new opportunities to expand its service offerings and customer base.

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42 past transactions

AnyMind Group

Series B in 2019
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

QD Laser, Inc.

Series F in 2018
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

Sustainable Medicine

Venture Round in 2018
Sustainable Medicine, Inc. engages in development of medical software application for treating insomnia. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Trillium Secure, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Trillium Secure, Inc. develops software for life cycle protection for vehicles and fleets of vehicles. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

KAICO

Private Placement in 2020
KAICO, Ltd. manufactures and sells protein contract expression reagents, diagnostic drugs, and pharmaceutical raw materials. It offers GM-CSF (granulocyte Macrophage colony-stimulating factor), a type of cytokine that promotes differentiation into pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fukuoka, Japan.

QD Laser, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

Itochu TC Construction Machinery

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Distributor and supplier of construction machinery and temporary construction equipment based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is engaged in sale and supply of construction machinery, imports of overseas products, sales and rental of mountain tunneling machinery, shield machinery and environmental-related equipment, enabling its clients to avail useful goods and servicesin the construction machinery industry.

Bplats

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
BPLATS,Inc. develops and sells subscription integration tools for connecting sellers and buyers. It offers Bplats Platform Edition for constructing a flexible and organic ecosystem, which allows providers and users to freely change the position of products that are rising from the Internet of Things; and Bplats Channel Edition, which connects various stakeholders from upstream to downstream with subscription business, as well as ASP-SaaS Navi services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Bplats

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
BPLATS,Inc. develops and sells subscription integration tools for connecting sellers and buyers. It offers Bplats Platform Edition for constructing a flexible and organic ecosystem, which allows providers and users to freely change the position of products that are rising from the Internet of Things; and Bplats Channel Edition, which connects various stakeholders from upstream to downstream with subscription business, as well as ASP-SaaS Navi services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.

WHILL

Series A in 2014
WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications. WHILL is making transportation enjoyable and smart for everybody. It aims to change the perception of mobility devices such as wheelchairs and scooters through advanced technology and smart design. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

AnyMind Group

Private Placement in 2018
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

KAICO

Series A in 2020
KAICO, Ltd. manufactures and sells protein contract expression reagents, diagnostic drugs, and pharmaceutical raw materials. It offers GM-CSF (granulocyte Macrophage colony-stimulating factor), a type of cytokine that promotes differentiation into pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fukuoka, Japan.

CSI Leasing

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Customers turn to CSI when they need a financial solution from an industry expert they can rely on. They have been investing in their customers’ equipment solutions for nearly five decades. Any leasing company can provide a price quote and a lease rate factor. At CSI, they see leasing as a way to gain the benefits of using equipment, without many of the hassles, costs and limitations associated with ownership.

Terra Motors

Series C in 2023
Terra motors is the EV start up company in Japan. They develop the global enterprise for the global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that has brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at the famous electronic retail stores,do-it-yourself stores,bicycle stores, car stores and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market. In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.

QD Laser, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

Cyber Core

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Cyber Core Co.,LTd. provides could based and artificial intelligence applications. Cyber Core Co.,LTd. was formerly known as Unitec Co.,Ltd. and changed its name to Cyber Core Co.,LTd. in August 2015. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Morioka, Japan. Cyber Core Co.,LTd. operates as a subsidiary of UMC Electronics Co., Ltd.

Bank Nationalnobu

Post in 2018
PT Bank Nationalnobu Tbk provides banking products and services. The company operates in Corporate and Treasury segments. It offers savings products; and working capital investment loans, consumer, car, housing, apartment, and office loans. The company also provides debit cards, internet banking, mobile banking, and wealth management services; treasury services, such as foreign exchange transactions and hedging, and investment products. It operates through a network of 41 branch offices, 63 cash offices, and 222 ATMs, as well as a 6 sub branch office in Indonesia. The company was formerly known as PT Bank Alfindo. PT Bank Nationalnobu Tbk was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Pt Hitachi Construction Machinery Finance Indonesia

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Pt Hitachi Construction Machinery Finance Indonesia offers finance services for excavation machinery. The company is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Pt Hitachi Construction Machinery Finance Indonesia operates as a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.

Volocopter

Series D in 2021
Volocopter is an urban air mobility service provider that builds electric air taxis. The platform is flexible and permits piloted, remote controlled and fully autonomous flight. Since it was founded in 2011, the young enterprise has set its new milestones in which in 2016 it was granted provisional licensing for a two-seater Volocopter by the German aviation authority and in 2017 the aviation start-up entered into an agreement with RTA Dubai over the global premiere of an autonomously flying air taxi.

QD Laser, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

DIGITAL GRID

Venture Round in 2018
Digital Grid Inc. engages in the retail business of electricity targeting non-electrification areas and off-grid communities of Africa. The company provides a fee-based electricity credit system where a kiosk (shop owners) provides charging services to communities for phones, lanterns, and other electronic appliances. It offers rental rechargeable devices, such as LED lanterns, portable radios, tablet PCs, and mobile charging for end users; and leasing instruments, including WPDs, PV panels, and batteries, as well as a smartphone as a controller for agents. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Spiber

Private Equity Round in 2021
Spiber Inc. designs and manufactures protein materials, such as spider silk. It serves apparel and automotive industries. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tsuruoka, Japan.

SUSMED Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
SUSMED Co., Ltd., a digital therapeutics company, develops an application software for insomnia treatment. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chuo, Japan.

Shinko

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
SHINKO REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD. provides real estate development services. It offers renting and leasing, brokerage, renovation, administration management of residential, commercial, and industrial properties. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Kobe, Japan. The company operates as a subsidiary of SHINKO REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD. As of July 31, 2018, Shinko Real Estate CO.,LTD. operates as a subsidiary of Tokyo Century Corporation.

Grab

Series H in 2019
Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

Cyberdyne

Venture Round in 2010
CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm which is established by Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in order to materialize his idea to utilize Robot Suit HAL® for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, heavy works, entertainment and so on. Robot Suit HAL® was developed with the technologies created in Sankai Laboratory of Tsukuba University as an application of “Cybernics*” advocated by Prof. Sankai.

Glafit

Venture Round in 2019
Glafit manufactures a hybrid bike made under the concept of "making people's move more convenient, comfortable, and fun."Glafit is a hybrid bike made under the concept of "making people's move more convenient, comfortable, and fun." By utilizing the pedal, it is a next-generation type of vehicle that fulfills the use of three vehicles, with assisted traveling by bicycle, motorbike, and both.

Bplats

Venture Round in 2017
BPLATS,Inc. develops and sells subscription integration tools for connecting sellers and buyers. It offers Bplats Platform Edition for constructing a flexible and organic ecosystem, which allows providers and users to freely change the position of products that are rising from the Internet of Things; and Bplats Channel Edition, which connects various stakeholders from upstream to downstream with subscription business, as well as ASP-SaaS Navi services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Cyberdyne

Venture Round in 2011
CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm which is established by Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in order to materialize his idea to utilize Robot Suit HAL® for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, heavy works, entertainment and so on. Robot Suit HAL® was developed with the technologies created in Sankai Laboratory of Tsukuba University as an application of “Cybernics*” advocated by Prof. Sankai.

Amada Lease Co.,Ltd.

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Amada Lease Co.,Ltd. leases sheet metal, metal cutting, and power press machines. The company is based in Isehara-shi, Japan. As of March 31, 2019, Amada Lease Co.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Tokyo Century Corporation.

Aviation Capital Group

Private Placement in 2019
Aviation Capital Group LLC, together with its subsidiaries, owns, manages, and leases commercial jet aircraft in the United States and internationally. As of March 31, 2020, the company owned and managed approximately 500 aircraft, which are leased to approximately 90 airlines in 45 countries. It also offers aircraft asset management services and aircraft financing solutions for third parties. The company was formerly known as Aviation Capital Group Corp. and changed its name to Aviation Capital Group LLC in March 2017. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Aviation Capital Group LLC is a subsidiary of TC Skyward Aviation U.S., Inc.

Grab

Private Equity Round in 2016
Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

Aviation Capital Group

Acquisition in 2019
Aviation Capital Group LLC, together with its subsidiaries, owns, manages, and leases commercial jet aircraft in the United States and internationally. As of March 31, 2020, the company owned and managed approximately 500 aircraft, which are leased to approximately 90 airlines in 45 countries. It also offers aircraft asset management services and aircraft financing solutions for third parties. The company was formerly known as Aviation Capital Group Corp. and changed its name to Aviation Capital Group LLC in March 2017. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Aviation Capital Group LLC is a subsidiary of TC Skyward Aviation U.S., Inc.

QD Laser, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

Trillium Secure

Series A in 2018
Trillium provides in-vehicle cybersecurity protection for connected vehicles.

Bank Nationalnobu

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
PT Bank Nationalnobu Tbk provides banking products and services. The company operates in Corporate and Treasury segments. It offers savings products; and working capital investment loans, consumer, car, housing, apartment, and office loans. The company also provides debit cards, internet banking, mobile banking, and wealth management services; treasury services, such as foreign exchange transactions and hedging, and investment products. It operates through a network of 41 branch offices, 63 cash offices, and 222 ATMs, as well as a 6 sub branch office in Indonesia. The company was formerly known as PT Bank Alfindo. PT Bank Nationalnobu Tbk was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Seqsense

Series B in 2023
Seqsense Co., Ltd. develops security robots and related products.

KAICO

Series A in 2024
KAICO, Ltd. manufactures and sells protein contract expression reagents, diagnostic drugs, and pharmaceutical raw materials. It offers GM-CSF (granulocyte Macrophage colony-stimulating factor), a type of cytokine that promotes differentiation into pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fukuoka, Japan.

Lilz

Series B in 2023
Operator of a cloud-based platform intended to make on-site work easier. The company's platform integrates machine learning and IoT technologies to offer site inspection services and remotely perform visual patrol inspections such as analog meters, enabling clients to streamline operations and increase productivity.