Asakura will speak at the “Smart Round Securities Inaugural Seminar, Vol 1: The Changing Landscape of Fundraising and Exits, and Future Capital Strategies,” hosted by Smart Round and Smart Round Securities.（2026/10/27）
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）