{"id":120742,"date":"2019-04-26T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=120742&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-04-26T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:35:41","slug":"kyushu-open-innovation-fund-launched","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-open-innovation-fund-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu Open Innovation Fund Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Apr. 22, FFG Venture Business Partners and GxPartners announced the establishment of a new fund to support startups in Fukuoka City. The joint organization is named Kyushu Open Innovation Fund and is funded by four influential local companies including Fukuoka Bank and Nishitetsu. It will continue to seek further funding from local companies with a plan to invest \u00a51~2 billion during the first 10 years. The Fund will invest \u00a55~30 million for each startup company based in Fukuoka. It will also provide consultations for business planning and organizing the company. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-fg.com\/news_info_pdf\/2019\/20190422_gxpfvp.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FFG News Release<\/a>, 4\/22\/2019 <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tenjin-chuo-park-showcase.jpg?resize=1400%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tenjin-chuo-park-showcase.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tenjin-chuo-park-showcase.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tenjin-chuo-park-showcase.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tenjin-chuo-park-showcase.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <em>Photo for image purpose only, provided by the City of Fukuoka<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Apr. 22, FFG Venture Business Partners and GxPartners announced the establishment of a new fund to support startups in Fukuoka City. The joint organization is named Kyushu Open Innovation Fund and is funded by four influential local companies including Fukuoka Bank and Nishitetsu. It will continue to seek further funding from local companies with a plan to invest \u00a51~2 billion during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":120761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-120742","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/120742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}