Jafco VC invests in 90 Seconds Japan

I’m very happy to announce that today listed global VC firm Jafco Japan (Jafco Co Ltd 8595:Tokyo) has invested 60 million Yen (Approx. $NZ 700k) into 90 Seconds Japan to help accelerate 90 Seconds Cloud Video Production Service across Japan! Hai!

We started 90 Seconds Japan in Tokyo in April 2014 and now at just under a year old have a growing base of customers, an awesome and growing Japan Team and we’re excited to add Jafco as a partner to accelerate growth of 90 Seconds in Japan further support our global expansion.

90 Seconds Japan is lead by Jay Yamahata 90 Seconds Japan founding CEO. Jay is a highly experience internet business developer who has held previous positions of COO and Head of Business Development for Japanese listed company Value Commerce (2491:Tokyo) where he worked with founders Tim Williams & Jonny Hendriksen to build the business from inception to a 700 person listed business. Jay who lead the deal with Jafco is very excited to work with Jafco on growing 90 Seconds.

Read the update on Bloomberg – Jafco invests in 90 Seconds Japan here,

Arigato! (Thanks in Japanese)