Real Tech Fund operates private lunar exploration team "HAKUTO"
Invested in "ispace Co., Ltd." aiming to commercialize monthly resource development

Euglena Investment Co., Ltd.

　Euglena Investment Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative: Akihiko Nagata) is a new investment destination for the research and development-specialized venture capital fund "Real Tech Fund," focusing on lunar resource development and lunar water resources. We are pleased to announce that we have invested in ispace Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "ispace"), which aims to build a space infrastructure.

　Attention to space resource development such as rocket launch and earth observation / communication by artificial satellites is rapidly increasing. In particular, industrial creation through water resource development on the moon has become a theme that each country is paying attention to, including NASA in the United States and ESA in Europe. Under such circumstances, ispace operates a private lunar exploration team "HAKUTO" and aims to commercialize lunar resource development with the vision of "expanding the economic zone of humankind to space and creating a more sustainable world." I will.
　With this funding, ispace will launch two lunar orbit and lunar landing missions, the first in Japan for the private sector, and will launch its own lunar landing ship twice by the end of 2020. It will be launched and explored in orbit and on the moon. With these two missions as the starting point, we will establish the technology for lunar transportation and exploration of the moon, and promote the construction of space infrastructure centered on the water resources of the moon, which will support the lives of people living on the earth. We aim to realize a sustainable world in which the entire universe, including the earth and the moon, becomes an infrastructure.
　The Real Tech Fund will underwrite the shares issued by ispace through a third-party allotment, and will support business collaboration with Real Tech Fund members and investee ventures.
　The details are as follows.

About investment of ispace Co., Ltd.

■ 株式会社ispaceの概要と支援内容について
　設立年月：2010年9月10日
　所在地　：東京都港区麻布台3-1-6飯倉片町アネックス6F
　代表者　：代表取締役　袴田武史
　資本金　：98億6,427万4,794円（資本準備金含まず）
　事業内容：月面資源開発の事業化への取り組み
　ＨＰ　　：http://ispace-inc.com/
　支援内容：ファンドの出資企業、投資先企業との連携推進等の支援
　出資時期：2017年12月

■ About Realtech Fund (HP: http://www.realtech.fund)
　Our 100% subsidiary of Euglena Investment, SMBC Nikko Securities, Ribanesu "Limited Liability Company was founded three companies Euglena in venture capital funds that SMBC Nikko Ribanesu capital" to management and operation, the investment development of the real tech venture as the main purpose is. With a total of 30 participating companies and a fund size of 9.4 billion yen (as of November 2017), it is Japan's largest fund specializing in real tech. We are investing in and nurturing real-tech ventures together with the operating companies that are our investors.

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