For Investors

Japan's Government Committed $400M
to Build Global Companies.
We Have the Founders.

StartX Stanford, Nexus, and the Japan Cabinet Office have built a pipeline of Japan's most technically advanced early-stage founders. Get first access before they reach the broader market.

Investor Access

What Nexus Investors Receive

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Demo Day Access

First-look at each cohort in a curated investor event before public announcement. Meet founders who have already cleared government vetting and StartX-style acceleration.

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Curated Deal Flow

Ongoing access to Cabinet Office-backed founder profiles matched to your stage and sector focus. No noise, no cold outreach. Founders who have been selected for quality.

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Co-Investment Opportunities

Invest alongside a network of peer US angels and VCs already active in the Japan ecosystem, with the StartX network as a common thread of diligence and trust.

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Japan Market Intelligence

Quarterly briefings on Japan's startup ecosystem, government policy shifts, and sector momentum. Be informed before the rest of the market catches up to what is happening here.

How It Works

Government-Vetted.
StartX-Accelerated.
Curated for You.

Every Nexus founder goes through a multi-stage vetting process. Founders are sourced from Japan's top research universities and evaluated against the Japan Cabinet Office's criteria for scientific rigor, market potential, and founder quality.

The strongest early-stage companies advance into the Nexus cohort. They receive non-dilutive government capital, StartX-style acceleration programming, and mentorship from 40 world-class mentors recruited from the StartX, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and SRI networks.

For US investors, this means accessing a pipeline that has already been de-risked through institutional vetting: founders with real IP, government backing, and a clear path to global markets, introduced to you before the broader market has seen them.

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Investor panel at a Japan-US startup event

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