Japanese investors turn to Europe as deep tech boom lures capital abroad

Huge swathes of cash are flowing from Japan to European tech startups as risk-averse investors favor a more mature entrepreneurial ecosystem, helping to scale the continent's booming deep tech cluster.While the European startup and venture capital ecosystem has long operated in the shadow of Silicon Valley, it has become fertile ground for Japanese corporates, whose domestic market is younger.  Japanese investors or venture capital funds who themselves have Japanese investors, known as limited partners, par ...