<a href="https://newsllc.tokyo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NEWS</a>, which supports startups, <a href="https://east.vc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">East Ventures</a>, <a href="https://anobaka.jp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ANOBAKA</a> (ex-KVP), and <a href="https://now.vc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NOW</a>, leading seed venture capital firms in Japan, and BASSDRUM have jointly launched "NEXT".&nbsp;NEXT is a start-up support program for entrepreneurs who see the global crisis caused by COVID-19 as an opportunity to create new services. We support them from the early stages to investment. In the conceptualization and commercialization phase, we aim to achieve both quality and speed by providing three different perspectives simultaneously: the creative and marketing perspectives of NEWS, the technology perspective of BASSDRUM, and the business perspective of the three VC companies.&nbsp;For more information, please read <a href="https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000003.000047665.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the NEXT release page</a> (Japanese).

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New entrepreneurship support program NEXT to be launched