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Saemin Ahn

Saemin Ahn

Managing Partner of Rakuten Capital and Executive Officer of Rakuten Group, leading international venture capital investments in fintech, AI, and emerging technologies.

Jun 4, 2026

4:40
I think our audience would love to hear that.
4:42
Yeah, I mean, this-- these are really, uh, very, very good questions.
4:45
I mean, one thing that we could say upfront is indeed how we view the local domestic investments in Japan are very different in terms of how we look at overseas investments.
4:55
Um, Japanese investments that we make indeed need a very stronger synergistic bend in terms of how it benefits the ecosystem.
5:02
But if you look at things like investments in the US, like we did in Upstart and things like Lyft, we're thinking about how do we actually potentially partner up with very large startups that we can terraform maybe an alliance of, uh, companies and peers and build our own other platform inside those ecosystems, specifically in, in US in this example.
5:24
I think that's kind of the generalized kind of approach that we take.
5:28
Overseas, we want to actually build an alliance of companies that we build platforms on, and then in Japan, we want to further harden and strengthen what the Japanese ecosystem provides.

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16:25
Tell me Rakuten does and plans to do this year.

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