March 16,2015

VentureBeat,a portfolio company of KDDI Open Innovation Fund has announced it's partnership with "THE BRIDGE" and "btrax" for the partnership to launch in Japan.

VentureBeat is the leading source for news and perspective on technology innovation which has more than 7.5M monthly active users.

THE BRIDGE, a Japanese news media on Tech Startups,will translate and publish the VentureBeat's articles on it's media.

btrax, cross-cultural branding and marketing agency, will be licensed to sell VentureBeat Insight Report in Japan as of March 16th 2015.

KDDI has provided VentureBeat with a wide variety of support for this partnership.