Pacific Bays Capital

Founder

Maxwell Imai Weiss

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Approved Date

Jun 14, 2025

Asset Class

Venture Capital

Catalogue

Company Name Japanese

Pacific Bays Capital

Description English

Pacific Bays Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that invests globally in early- to late-stage startups, focusing on deep-tech sectors such as aerospace, robotics, and high-tech industries, with a mission to foster the next generation of unicorns by combining Japanese innovation with Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial spirit.

Description Japanese

Pacific Bays Capitalは、東京を拠点に、宇宙、ロボティクス、高度産業技術などのディープテック分野のスタートアップに対し、初期〜後期段階までグローバルに投資し、日本のイノベーションとシリコンバレーの起業家精神を融合させた次世代ユニコーンの創出を目指しています。

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Founded Year

2020

Style

Early-stage

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Last edited time

Jun 26, 2025 09:21 AM GMT+0

Founder BIO

Maxwell Imai Weiss is a Japan-based venture capitalist, most recently as a Partner at Pacific Bays Capital, and advisor at O-DE Capital Partners, a Web 2.5 fund. Prior to Pacific Bays Capital, he was a venture capitalist at one of Japan's largest independent venture capital funds with backing from the Japanese government, then with the VC arm of the Bank of Fukuoka, Japan's largest regional banking group. Max has a background in computer science, and prior to his career in venture capital, founded one of the world's first app creation platforms in Los Angeles. Max has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto Institute of Technology, is a mentor at the SoftBank / University of Tokyo AI accelerator DeepCore, and is a contributor at Business Insider writing about AI and other technologies.

Geography

Japan

Reviewed By

Hidekazu Ishida

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