(Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Keito Noguchi; hereafter ‘Brave group’) is launching ‘Brave global capital’ in earnest with the aim of building an IP ecosystem. Brave global capital is the collective name for Brave group’s investment projects, including management integration and capital/business alliances, and to accelerate this initiative, a Corporate Strategy Office has been established and Sasuke Shimomura has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).

Brave global capital page：https://bravegroup.co.jp/en/bgc/

Background

Brave group’s mission is to ‘break through to the hearts of 8 billion people’, and it is developing several businesses, including IP Production (VTuber business) , IP Platform and IP Solution, which have a high affinity with the VTuber business, and Incubation. The company is developing several businesses in the Incubation domain, both domestically and internationally.
Brave group started with one VTuber business in October 2017, and after eight M&As and business alliances with various companies, we have now launched this project with the desire to support businesses and companies that are challenging the world from Japan and creating excitement in the world, just like us.
We aim to become a global company from Japan by promoting M&As with a focus on the Contents, Global, Finance and Tech domains, which have a high affinity with our existing businesses.

IP ecosystems enabled by Brave global capital

IP Production operates a production business that delivers VTuber content and other content through IP production and talent management, it currently employs 170 talents working across 18 different projects.
IP Platform operates “colleize”, an e-commerce site specializing in official goods and officially licensed products such as anime and manga, and Brave stores, a business selling goods to overseas customers, providing a platform for delivering the content itself to users.
IP Solution is developing businesses that contribute to the diversification of monetisation and operational efficiency of VTuber content itself, in order to raise the profitability of IP.
We will continue to explore IP creation through a wide variety of services and media mixes, centered on IP Production, and build an ecosystem that maximizes the potential and profitability of IP.

▼Main Investment Areas

• IP Production (in-house IP development)
  Companies producing IP/content
• IP Platform (sales expansion of IP including other companies)
  Companies that operate platform businesses for IP sales expansion.
• IP Solution (increase the profitability of IP)
  Companies that operate businesses that contribute to new monetisation methods for IP/content and to improved operational efficiency.

▼Relevant Articles

・Acquisition and business transfer of VTuber group ‘Idol’ to Brave group US.
Brave group US acquires the business of idol, a fast-growing overseas VTuber group in the US, and integrates its operations (1 Aug 2024).
https://bravegroup.co.jp/en/news/6799/

・Brave group invests in and begins capital and business alliance with ‘xxxxnese’.
Brave group invests in xxxxnese, a cross-border DX EC business. Capital and business alliance to promote overseas business creation (26 Sep 2024).
https://bravegroup.co.jp/en/news/7442/

Brief CV

Sasuke Shimomura, General Manager, Corporate Strategy Office @ Brave group

After graduating from Waseda University, he joined the Equity Research Department of Goldman Sachs & Co. He then worked at UUUM Corporation, where he was in charge of corporate planning, including company-wide budgeting, M&A and creator strategy. He also worked as an executive officer and CFO at SoVa Inc, where he was involved in finance operations since the company’s inception. In June 2024, he joined Brave group and has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer

Keito Noguchi, CEO, Brave group

While a student at Keio University in 2011, he founded Vapes Inc.
In 2016, he transferred the company’s business to Benesse Holdings Corporation, and after angel investing in and co-founding more than 50 start-ups, he was appointed Representative Director of Brave group Inc. in 2020

Recruitment Information

As of September 1st 2024, Brave group has 351 employees (240.4% YOY growth) and 17 group companies, and while the organization is expanding as it diversifies its businesses and services, it continues to actively recruit for further business expansion.
Please see the job list page below to see the positions we are currently recruiting for.
https://recruit.bravegroup.co.jp/recruit-information/