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Global Brain

Venture Capital

Global Brain is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo managing flagship and corporate funds.

Portfolio

7

companies


Portfolio companies

Healx

Healx

Healx deploys artificial intelligence to discover new therapies for rare conditions.

CE

Connect Earth

Connect Earth builds environmental data infrastructure for the financial sector.

PF

Plum Fintech

Plum Fintech provides a smart money application that automates personal finance and investing.

Plum

Plum

Plum provides a smart money application that helps users automate savings and investments.

D

Divido

Divido provides a white-label platform for retail finance and point of sale payments.

S

Seldon

Seldon provides open-source DevOps tools for managing and monitoring machine learning models.

G

GeoSpock

GeoSpock develops high performance database technology for large scale spatial and temporal data analytics.


Team

NK

Naoki Kamimaeda

Partner and Europe Office Representative

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Recent investments

Series C
£37.0M

The Series C round was co-led by R42 Group and Atomico to support clinical trials for rare disease treatments.

"It is truly a pivotal time at Healx. By December 2024, we will advance HLX-1502 into a Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with NF1 both for plexiform neurofibroma, a genetic condition with limited treatment options and for cutaneous neurofibroma, for which there are no FDA approved options. We are also generating important preclinical data for multiple additional compounds identified using our novel generative AI drug discovery engine. Those compounds target rare diseases with significant unmet needs, including additional nerve-related tumor disorders, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and neurodevelopmental disorders such as Angelman syndrome."
— Tim Guilliams, CEO
Seed
£4.5M

Gresham House Ventures led the seed financing for the London environmental data firm.

"Decarbonisation initiatives in the financial sector are growing rapidly which is why we need to further scale our product offering to help financial institutions measure and reduce the emissions of their customers,"
— Alexander Lempka, Co-Founder and CEO
Series C
£1.7M

The smart money app secured the initial funding target within eight hours from over 3700 participants.

"I want to thank our 3700 investors for joining Plum in its journey with this new round of crowdfunding. I am thrilled to see that our campaign has secured such good traction in a short amount of time and I am excited for what is yet to come."
— Victor Trokoudes, CEO and Founder
Series A
£10.4M

The financing round was led by dmg ventures and Ventura Capital to support international growth and asset expansion.

"Wealth for all is our mission and we’ve made some great strides towards making that reality this year, expanding our user base massively and delivering a product that looks more-and-more like a financial super app. But there’s a lot more work to be done. The appetite for smart and intuitive investment products is enormous, particularly in other parts of Europe where often old-fashioned banks are the only option for growing your money. With the help of this new investment and our upcoming crowdfund, our app will become the natural choice for anyone in Europe looking to improve their finances for the long-term."
— Victor Trokoudes, Founder and CEO
Series B
£21.0M

The funding round was led by HSBC and ING to fuel international growth.

"The retail finance market is in a period of exponential growth, expected to hit $2.5 trillion next year. This provides banks with the opportunity to increase lending revenue, diversify their portfolio and neutralise the threat from new entrants."
— Christer Holloman, Founder and CEO
Series A
£7.1M

The round was co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital to support commercial expansion and research.

"There’s never been a greater need to effectively deploy ML models in enterprise, and this fresh capital injection will ensure our customers have the tools they need to achieve their goals."
— Alex Housley, CEO and founder
Series B
£4.2M

The funding round was led by nChain and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

"Businesses have realised that advanced analytics and rapid innovation is the key to building competitive advantage in a data-driven world, so where billion row queries that took hours were once acceptable, the market now demands trillions of rows and speed-of-thought results. Aside from performance and scale, database technology needs to be built with the future of the connected world in mind – providing flexibility and cost predictability, even as the demands for big data continues to grow."
— Steve Marsh, Founder and CTO
Series B
£43.9M

The financing round was led by Atomico with participation from several returning and new investors.

"The size of this Series B financing, especially this quickly after our Series A round last year, is an endorsement of the value of our platform and the pace at which we have developed. It allows us to scale our impact with the launch of our Rare Treatment Accelerator programme and to progress into clinical trials."
— Tim Guilliams, CEO