IP Bridge, Inc. and VALUENEX Japan, Inc. will officially start a conversation of collaboration with the aim of combining VALUENEX’s big data analytics technologies and IP Bridge’s world-class IP consulting services to provide clients with new value.
IP Bridge, Inc. (IP Bridge) is a leader of intellectual property-related transactions and is Japan’s first and largest IP fund. By leveraging high quality IP assets owned by major companies, IP Bridge provides licensing services to a broad range industries, facilitates improvement of corporate values based on IP, and promotes technological innovation by forming business alliances around the globe.
VALUENEX Japan, Inc. (“VALUENEX”) has expertise and proprietary big data analytics technologies & methodologies, providing services to a global client base by offering unique insight through text mining and data visualization.
The collaboration of VALUENEX and IP Bridge will combine top-class services to advance the exploration of business alliances and cross-industry cooperation, taking a data-based approach to strategic usage and monetization of intellectual property. This will bolster the growth of companies, expand their innovation in Japan, and strengthen their international competitiveness.
ABOUT IP BRIDGE
| Company name | IP Bridge, Inc. | Headquarters | Chiyoda-ku, | Established | July 2013 |
| Representatives | CEO Minoru Fujiki
CFO Tatsushige Yonaha |
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| Business overview | Intellectual property-related business involved in licensing, acquiring, retaining, managing, using, and enforcing intellectual property rights. Consults and advises businesses utilizing intellectual property rights. |
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| Web Site | https://ipbridge.co.jp/eng/ | ||||
ABOUT VALUENEX
| Company name | VALUENEX Japan, Inc. | Headquarters | Bunkyo-ku, | Established | Aug 2006 |
| Representatives | CEO & Founder Tatsuo Nakamura | ||||
| Business overview | VALUENEX is a big data analytics platform and consulting services company, powered by proprietary algorithms, machine intelligence, and teams of data scientists and expert analysts. Founded as a startup in 2006 and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2018, the company provides solutions for Corporate/R&D strategy development, IP monetization and evaluation, financial investment analyses and leveraging, and technology convergence mapping. | ||||
【About IP Bridge】
At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.
We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.
Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.