Asakura Will Speak at the “CFO LEADERS SUMMIT 2026” Hosted by CPA Excellent Partners.（2026/11/15）
An interview with Asakura was featured in the lead article of the October 2026 issue of “Monthly,” the newsletter of the Nikkei Top Leader Executives Club.
Asakura will teach the course “Financial Thinking for Startups” as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University Business School (Winter Quarter of the 2026 academic year)
Animal Spirits will host “Selected Startup Pitch 2026 Fall,” a pitch event focused on seed and early-stage startups and co-organized by more than 30 venture capital firms (2026/10/19)
Animal Spirits invested in Kimi no Tonari, Inc., an AI company that aims to overcome supply constraints in “people-centered work” and provide emotional support to as many people as possible in a seed round.
Animal Spirits invested in cosmobloom, Inc., a company aiming to build large-scale structures in space in a seed round.
Asakura will speak at at the online seminar “Japan Startup Finance: First Half of 2026—Startup Funding Trends,” hosted by Userbase, Inc.（2026/08/24）
Asakura will speak at the “M&A for Startups Conference 2026,” a conference specializing in startup M&A organized by for Startups, Inc.（2026/09/04）
Araki will speak at the seminar “VC AI Night | How Will AI Transform the VC Industry?” hosted by Tokyo Venture Capital Hub（2026/08/07）
Animal Spirits has established its second fund, “Animal Spirits 26 Limited Partnership,” with assets under management ranging from 6 to 8 billion yen.