Dentsu Ventures

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Venture arm of Dentsu Group, one of the world's largest advertising agencies.

Profile

Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Investments
2
Companies
2

Capital

Total Deployed
$383M
Lead Rounds
0

Portfolio

2 companies
Mysten Labs $336M
Private Palo Alto, United States

Mysten Labs is a web3 infrastructure company building the Sui blockchain, a Layer 1 smart contract platform designed for high throughput and low latency. Founded by five former Meta (Novi/Diem) engineers, the company also created the Move programming language and the Walrus decentralized storage protocol.
uBiome $110M
Private San Francisco, United States

uBiome was a biotechnology company that developed technology to sequence and analyze the human microbiome using proprietary machine-learning algorithms. The company offered consumer testing kits and clinical diagnostics (SmartGut, SmartJane) reimbursed by health insurance. uBiome collapsed in 2019 after an FBI raid over healthcare fraud, with its co-founders later indicted for defrauding investors and insurers.

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