30 billion yen invested in Japan and abroad, including 40 Y Combinator companies (with a report from SF Tech Week)

Yamato Watanabe, Kota Shindo and Arisa Makihara of DG Daiwa Ventures (DGDV), which manages about 30 billion yen and invests from the seed stage both in Japan and overseas, talk about how they think about investing in Y Combinator companies and why each of them chose venture capital.

Topics include DGDV’s investments in around 40 Y Combinator companies, the three members’ different routes into venture capital, and an on-site report from the event DGDV hosted during SF Tech Week in October.