The KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND Invests In MOSH, Which Provides Support Services For Individual Creators.
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March 11, 2025
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
TOKYO, March 11, 2025 - Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (Kirin Holdings) announced today that it has invested in MOSH, Inc. (MOSH) through the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND (KHIF), a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund established jointly with Global Brain Corporation (Global Brain), a leading independent venture capital firm.
MOSH is a start-up company that operates MOSH, an Internet-based service for individual creators. The company's mission is to "create an economy where passion revolves around passion." To solve the problem of the lack of an easy way for individuals to transmit, book, and pay for their own skills and information, MOSH provides a one-stop service that includes website creation, offline and online booking and payment, digital content sales, and monthly subscriptions for online sales. MOSH provide one-stop services such as website creation, offline and online reservation payment, digital content sales, and monthly subscriptions for online sales. MOSH is developing a store-front service EC*1 that enables the development of services in a variety of areas, including yoga, fitness, beauty, music, cooking, career, childcare, and more than 200 other occupations. We will explore collaboration with MOSH to create new experiences in the health and beauty field.
1 In-house EC format where the company acquires its own domain and operates a personal website.
The Kirin Group has formulated a long-term management concept, Kirin Group Vision 2027, which calls upon the Group to become a global leader in CSV*2 by 2027 by creating value in domains ranging from food & beverages to pharmaceuticals. To achieve this goal, in addition to its existing Food & Beverages and Pharmaceuticals business domains, Kirin Holdings has launched and is fostering a new Health Science domain that will contribute to people's health based on the advanced fermentation and biotechnology that the Kirin Group has cultivated over many years.
2 Creating Shared Value: combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.
About MOSH, Inc.
MOSH is a start-up company that operates a storefront service e-commerce platform, MOSH, that makes it easy to offer any service over the Internet. Functions such as homepages, reservations, payments, monthly subscriptions, membership sites, and content management can be easily created using smartphones, as well as customer management and digital content sales. With the mission of "creating an economy where passion revolves around passion," MOSH provides a multifunctional platform for individual creators, and currently more than 80,000 *3 creators in Japan are using MOSH.
3 As of January 2025
About the CVC Fund "KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND
Through the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND, Kirin Holdings intends to invest in startups around the globe that have innovative technologies and business models for resolving health issues, and to leverage their advanced health science technologies and solutions for improving customer experience. By combining the Kirin Group’s wealth of assets and competence in health science with innovations and technologies that startups will bring to partnerships, Kirin Holdings will be better able to bolster its existing Food & Beverages domain as well as step up efforts to launch new businesses in its Health Science domain.
About Kirin Holdings
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is an international company that operates in the Food & Beverages domain (Food & Beverages businesses), Pharmaceuticals domain (Pharmaceuticals businesses), and Health Science domain (Health Science business), both in Japan and across the globe.
Kirin Holdings can trace its roots to Japan Brewery which was established in 1885. Japan Brewery became Kirin Brewery in 1907. Since then, the company expanded its business with fermentation and biotechnology as its core technologies, and entered the pharmaceutical business in the 1980s, all of which continue to be global growth centers. In 2007, Kirin Holdings was established as a pure holding company and is currently focusing on boosting its Health Science domain.
Under the Kirin Group Vision 2027 (KV 2027), a long-term management plan launched in 2019, the Kirin Group aims to become “A global leader in CSV* creating value across our world of Food & Beverages to Pharmaceuticals.” Going forward, the Kirin Group will continue to leverage its strengths to create both social and economic value through its businesses, with the aim of achieving sustainable growth in corporate value.
*Creating Shared Value: Combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.
Company Overviews
⑴About the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND
| Fund name |
KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND (registered as KIRIN and GB Investment Limited Partnership) |
|---|---|
| Primary sector for investment | Startups around the globe operating in the health science domain |
| Established | March 2020 |
| AUM | 5 billion yen |
| Investment period | 10 years |
| General partner | Global Brain Corporation |
⑵Outline of Global Brain Corporation
| Company Name | Global Brain Corporation |
|---|---|
| Head office | SHIBUYA AXSH 2-17-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002, JAPAN |
| President | Yasuhiko Yurimoto, General Partner Founder CEO |
| Established | January 1998 |
| Primary business | Venture Capital Business |
| URL | https://globalbrains.com/ |
⑶Outline of MOSH Inc.
| Company Name | MOSH Inc. |
|---|---|
| Location | 2-14-13, Shibuya 2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo |
| Representative | Kazuya Yabu, CEO |
| Establishment | July 2017 |
| Primary business | Planning, development and operation of Internet business |
| URL | https://corp.mosh.jp/ |
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