AN Venture Partners (ANV), a global biotech venture capital fund, today announced that Yasuhiro Yamada, a former Executive Director at the Bank of Japan, is joining as an Advisor. Mr. Yamada will support ANV's fundraising and investment activities to advance Japan's biotechnology ecosystem.
Ken Horne, Managing Partner, said: “We are delighted to welcome Mr. Yamada to ANV, bringing his deep expertise. He has spent a lifetime working in the Japanese finance sector and has accumulated deep expertise as well as a wide network of contacts which we expect will greatly support ANV's further growth. We look forward to working with him as our firm continues to raise and deploy capital, further strengthening our investment activities in our mission to support promising startups and help build Japan’s biotech ecosystem.”
“I feel a deep sense of empathy and delight seeing that firms like AN Venture Partners are applying their knowledge and skills to develop Japanese science and build the financial infrastructure needed to support it,” said Mr. Yamada. “I will do my best to support the ANV team as it pursues these goals and hope that our work can attract new investors and turn many more Japanese researchers into successful entrepreneurs.”
