Nobutake Suzuki is the President and CEO of MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP). See sector focus and contact routes.
Nobutake Suzuki is the President and CEO of MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a role he assumed in January 2019 after joining MUFG Bank in 2018 as a managing director for open innovation. Before his banking career, he started as a venture capitalist at Global Brain in 2002, investing in Japanese and overseas startups and managing corporate venture funds for KDDI and others. MUIP’s investment thesis focuses on fintech, AI, and tech startups that can integrate into MUFG’s ecosystem, with a strategic geographic expansion including India, where 15–20% of its third fund is earmarked. The firm’s third fund has a total commitment of roughly $140 million, though specific typical check sizes and lead/follow behavior are not publicly detailed. Notable portfolio companies include Jupiter, M2P, Lentra, and Dhan in India’s fintech sector, as well as Eyeota and Hailo Network in media and social software. Suzuki has publicly emphasized that fintech was built to weather crises and highlighted the firm’s intent to bet on India’s digital financial growth and AI-led innovations.
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