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NTT Docomo Ventures Has Participated in The Angel Round of Web3 Company BLOCKSMITH&Co.

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Friday, December 22, 2023

TOKYO, Dec. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Yasumoto; hereinafter "NDV") announces that they will invest in BLOCKSMITH&Co.

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TOKYO, Dec. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Yasumoto; hereinafter "NDV") announces that they will invest in BLOCKSMITH&Co.
Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Tetsuya Sanada; hereinafter "BLOCKSMITH"), a web3 company that develops blockchain games and provides other web3 services, through a fund managed by the company as an investor in an angel round (ongoing).
With the participation of NTT DOCOMO Ventures, BLOCKSMITH and the NTT DOCOMO Group will strengthen their cooperation and work together to achieve web3 mass adoption through the realisation of synergies between the two companies.
BLOCKSMITH is also working on the development of its own Facial Recognition Web3 Wallet (patent pending), and by collaborating with the NTT DOCOMO Group, the company will promote the development and implementation of a more convenient and secure Web3 Wallet and enhanced security for blockchain games.

Jurata Thin Film and CastleVax Awarded $1 Million through the BLUE KNIGHT™ Resident QuickFire Challenge: Accelerating Project NextGen to Develop Thermostabilized COVID-19 Booster Vaccine

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

HOUSTON, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jurata Thin Film, Inc., a company aiming to revolutionize vaccine and biologic manufacturing, storage, distribution, and delivery using their proprietary thin film formulation, and CastleVax, Inc., a company commercializing the Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) vaccine platform developed at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, are proud to announce that they have jointly been awarded a $1 million grant through the BLUE KNIGHT™ Resident QuickFire Challenge: Accelerating Project NextGen. These funds will be used to further the development of a thermostabilized next-generation vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 that can be transported and stored without temperature control (refrigeration or freezing), then delivered without needles to induce mucosal immunity.

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Through the BLUE KNIGHT™ Resident QuickFire Challenge: Accelerating Project NextGen , Jurata and CastleVax have received funding to assist with the development of a next-generation booster vaccine against COVID-19 that does not require cold storage, can induce mucosal immunity, and can be administered without needles.
Jurata and CastleVax have received funding to assist the development of a next-gen booster vaccine against COVID-19.
"We are so excited about our partnership with Jurata Thin Film," says CastleVax's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Michael Egan.
He continued, "their thin film technology could make our live-attenuated, next-generation COVID-19 booster vaccine far more accessible to patients, no matter where they are in the world."

Alation Expands Global Footprint with Launch of New Data Center in Japan

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alation, Inc. , the data intelligence company, today announced the launch of its new data center.

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alation, Inc. , the data intelligence company, today announced the launch of its new data center.
Located in Tokyo, Japan, Alation Cloud Service customers can now process and store data locally to meet data residency requirements.
This is the fifth Alation data center, adding to existing locations in the United States, Europe, Singapore, and Australia.
“Alation’s best-of-breed data intelligence platform is the foundation of the modern data stack and offers the opportunity for our customers to accelerate cloud migration.

JumpCloud Closes Out $225 Million Series F With Additional $66 Million Raised From Atlassian Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, NTT Docomo Ventures, and Others

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Series F round led by Sapphire Ventures includes additional strategic investment from Atlassian Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, NTT Docomo Ventures, Inc., STEADFAST Capital Ventures, Waterman Ventures, and OurCrowd.

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The Series F round led by Sapphire Ventures includes additional strategic investment from Atlassian Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, NTT Docomo Ventures, Inc., STEADFAST Capital Ventures, Waterman Ventures, and OurCrowd.
The additional $66 million funding announced today closes the companys Series F at $225 million and brings total capital raised by JumpCloud to over $400 million and the companys valuation to $2.625 billion.
Across each of our customer bases, IT teams are looking for an alternative to Microsoft for managing and securing infrastructure.
JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.

LISNR receives investment from NTT DOCOMO Ventures

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

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OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LISNR, Inc. (Office: Oakland, California, USA; CEO: Eric Allen; hereinafter called "LISNR"), a provider of ultrasonic data-over-sound technology, has received an investment from NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takayuki Inagawa; hereinafter called "NDV") through a fund operated by NDV.

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OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LISNR, Inc. (Office: Oakland, California, USA; CEO: Eric Allen; hereinafter called "LISNR"), a provider of ultrasonic data-over-sound technology, has received an investment from NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takayuki Inagawa; hereinafter called "NDV") through a fund operated by NDV.
LISNR helps achieve near-field communication through the use of existing speakers and microphones on mobile devices, eliminating the need for NFC or Bluetooth technology.
LISNR already possesses a wide base of customers such as retailers, commercial facilities, plants, and automotive manufacturers.
NDV has invested in LISNR with the expectation that NDV will contribute to creating new opportunities and partnerships using LISNR's ultrasonic technology throughout various services provided by NTT DOCOMO.