
Saemin Ahn
Managing Partner of Rakuten Capital and Executive Officer of Rakuten Group, leading international venture capital investments in fintech, AI, and emerging technologies.
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Jun 4, 2026
The Growth Rocketship: How Rakuten Capital Masters Diplomatic Capitalism
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Saemin AhnGUEST
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.

Saemin AhnGUEST
Um, Japanese investments that we make indeed need a very stronger synergistic bend in terms of how it benefits the ecosystem.

Saemin AhnGUEST
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.

Saemin AhnGUEST
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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