Continual Challenges to Create New Businesses

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Leveraging Venture Builder

DeNA is an “eternal venture,” and we proactively take on the challenge of creating new businesses. To achieve this, in addition to our initiatives in each of our businesses and M&A, we also have Venture Builder in Delight Ventures, the DeNA Group fund. Delight Ventures’ Venture Builder provides support for entrepreneur candidates from both within and outside DeNA. DeNA is involved from the earliest stages through the growth period, and acts as a partner providing proactive support, including providing personnel and knowhow. We leverage this option strategically, sometimes receiving capital gains from invested companies, sometimes through M&A at market value, and sometimes by bringing a venture into the DeNA Group as a new business. This initiative is making steady progress, and already 21 startups have been produced. Delight Ventures’ Venture Investment has also invested in many DeNA alumni who are proactively leveraging our programs and taking on entrepreneurial challenges.


Leveraging Venture Builder

*The amounts shown for each fund are the total expected amount (including planned investment).

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Encouraging the Creation of New Businesses & Fostering Talent

At DeNA, we have encouraged new business creation by our employees since our founding. We have an open call for new business ideas and will assess them, but in addition to that, we have initiatives focusing on providing opportunities for the proposers of ideas to learn about the approach to new business creation and gain the necessary knowledge and skills. In our various business areas we have employees with ideas for new businesses and experienced team members working in tandem, and by fostering new business creation among our employees in this environment we give a beneficial push to our initiatives in existing businesses.

Business Creation Through Coordination with Venture Capital

DeNA & Delight Ventures are working together to encourage new business creation.
Some unique initiatives include online discussions and Q&A sessions about business creation with venture capitalists who are active on the front lines of startup investment and Venture Builder. We promote more pragmatic exploration and business creation with an awareness of the market and external investors by enabling our DeNA team members who are pursuing entrepreneurship or have new business ideas to receive assessments and feedback on their ideas from an investor perspective. Depending on the new business idea, the original proposer may choose to be the owner of the entrepreneurial process. The DeNA Group overall aims to create major value by leveraging the functions and insight of Venture Builder in Delight Ventures to support the realization of more pioneering and challenging startup ideas.
Aside from that, through broad venture capital fund investment we are deepening links with the global startup community and deepening our understanding of trends in business creation around the world as well as the state of value creation, and leveraging that to take on the challenge of achieving leaps in growth, such as in the creation of synergies with existing businesses through specific collaborations with startups and M&A.