Abstract
Bio-ventures are indispensable for the progress of life science and medical care and the prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry. It is also important to form an ecosystem surrounding ventures. Venture capitals(VC) encourage venture start-ups, invest risk money in ventures in uncertain business stages, and support discontinuous business growth. There are various negative situations in the venture ecosystem in Japan, but each player is working with the will of indomitable in anticipation of its growth.The origin of drug discovery research in academia is the desire to cure the patient in front of us, and there is a strong unmet medical need. As a VC, we would like to pay attention to the movement of social implementation of academia technology and face negative situations in the venture ecosystem in Japan.