Quzilla Capital

Founder
Shinji Takeuchi
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Approved Date
Jun 14, 2025
Asset Class
Private Equity
Catalogue
Catalogue
Company Name Japanese
Quzilla Capital
Description English
Quzilla Capital is a Tokyo-based private equity firm that invests in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Japan, focusing on revitalizing traditional businesses through digital transformation and globalization strategies. Their approach includes providing hands-on support to modernize operations, enhance brand positioning, and implement technological solutions, all while preserving existing workforces and respecting the unique cultures of each enterprise.
Description Japanese
Quzilla Capitalは、日本の中小企業への投資を通じて、デジタル化とグローバル展開戦略による伝統産業の再活性化を目指すプライベート・エクイティファームであり、事業運営の近代化、ブランド強化、技術導入などの支援を行いつつ、既存従業員と企業文化の尊重を重視します。
EMDB
EMDB
Founded Year
2018
Style
Small buyout
ID
174
Last edited time
Jun 26, 2025 09:21 AM GMT+0
Founder BIO
Shinji Takeuchi founded Quzilla Capital in April 2018 after successfully exiting his holding in IMJ, one of Japan's largest full-service digital marketing companies, to Accenture Digital. In the IMJ transaction, Mr. Takeuchi came up with the original plan and gathered a group of investors to create an SPC, then secured an LBO loan of JPY2.7bn from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to take JASDAQ-listed IMJ private through a tender offer. Meanwhile he became CFO (and later CEO) of IMJ, which, at the time, had been suffering from four straight years of net loss with a rapidly declining top line. He brought financial discipline, strategic focus and organizational realignment to the company, and this culminated in six consecutive years of record profit from 2012 to 2017. Accenture acquired IMJ in 2016 at a hefty premium. Prior to leading the IMJ investment, Mr. Takeuchi was a co-founder/partner at Crosspoint Advisors, Japan's leading independent M&A advisory/investment fund. Before co-founding Crosspoint Advisors, he was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers and was also the president of a boutique investment bank he founded in 2003 at the age of 27. He started his career in 1998 at Lehman Brothers as an analyst in the M&A group, and later joined Morgan Stanley (1999-2003), where he worked on a variety of M&A and restructuring assignments in both Tokyo and New York. He received a BA in International Relations and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Geography
Japan
Reviewed By
Hidekazu Ishida
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