An overview of Japan’s startup ecosystem, which ranked sixth globally in venture funding in 2017, as interest in deep tech startups ramps up (Norihiko Isawa/Tech.eu)

Editor’s note: this insightful guest post was penned by Norihiko Isawa, a strategy consultant at the Tokyo Office of Roland Berger. Although the news was inconspicuous at the time in Japan, it was indeed remarkable that Airbus Ventures participated as a lead investor in the $7.

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