Land, sea, air, space, cyber — and capital. Japan's security now depends on technology built at commercial speed. CDF converts private capital into national capability: sovereign ownership, allied leverage, and resilience — with cyber as the center of gravity.
Investment judgment, security review, and national interest — separated by design, aligned by governance.
Policy sets direction. Capital supplies will. Technology provides means. Industry builds capability. CDF operates the capital layer — where intent becomes capacity.
Four domains, one center. Cyber & AI is where we are deepest; the adjacent domains extend the same logic — detection, deception, autonomy, resilience — into physical space.
CENTER OF GRAVITY. Technologies for active cyber defense: autonomous detection, deception, and response. Our specialization — and the lens through which every other domain is evaluated.
Unmanned systems including drones — the core of asymmetric capability.
Open-source, signal, and geospatial information processing.
Foundational technologies profitable in commercial markets, deployable to defense and critical infrastructure.
Domestic companies that own their technology, carried to deployment through capital, procurement access, and information security.
Frontier companies from the US, UK, and Israel entering Japan. Investment tied to technology transfer, conditioned on domestic deployment.
Japanese companies converting foreign technology into forms built and operated here — the standing receptacle for allied collaboration.
Japan's defense startups face a limited path to IPO, so CDF works through the industrial base that already exists: positions in listed companies under ¥10B market cap, paired with foreign defense-tech partners, expanding existing technology into defense applications as strategic domain expansion.
Position building via block / PIPE
Exclusive contract / JV with overseas partner
Adoption proposals to MoD / JSDF
Re-valuation as a defense-theme stock
Divestment / M&A
Full enforcement of TSE listing criteria and defense-spending growth provide favorable conditions for investment.
M&A to defense primes and major technology firms as the primary path; IPO as an option for companies with stable government revenue.
Graduate of the National Defense Academy (Best Thesis Award). Former government white-hat hacker and Red Team commander for foreign special forces; founder of ForeZ Inc., developing offensive-defensive technology. Based on frontline defense and cyber experience, holds veto rights on final investment decisions to preserve fund discipline.
MBA, Harvard Business School. McKinsey and JP Morgan, then Japan head of Warburg Pincus. Supports portfolio companies' overseas expansion and exit strategy through a global defense industry network.
Former PwC Aarata. Managed funds exceeding ¥10B at Venturelab Group. Responsible for business due diligence and risk management.
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