Toyoshima & Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Hanshichi Toyoshima, Nagoya City Naka-ku leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners (Berlin, Co-Founder & CEO: Christoph Sonnen, hereinafter referred to as leAD Sports), founded in 2016 by the Adi Dassler family, to invest in sports and health tech startups. We are the first Asian company to invest.
With this investment, leAD Sports will have its first base in Asia in Tokyo.
Toyoshima & Co., Ltd. Founded in 1841, Mizuho has expanded its business domain in response to the changing times in its 180-year history. Currently, we are engaged in a series of processes from purchasing and selling raw materials, yarns, and fabrics from all over the world, and from final product planning to production management and delivery Japan and are developing our business comprehensively in all processes of the fashion industry. In addition, as a company that proposes a sustainable lifestyle, we are developing and providing various sustainable materials, investing in tech ventures, and promoting the development of smart wear.
leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners is led by the family of adidas founders Adi Dassler and nurtures investment in sports and healthtech startups. The management team and investors include entrepreneur Andrew White and former racing car driver Harold Primat. Together with more than 200 mentors, we support entrepreneurs looking to grow into global companies through our accelerator program. After its establishment in 2016, it launched an accelerator program in Berlin, Germany in 2017 and opened a second office in Lake Nona, Florida in 2020.
Through the partnership between the two companies, Tokyo will be the third base for leAD Sports, and business support and development will be promoted to expand sports & healthtech innovation from Japan and Asia to the world and global sports & healthtech innovation to Japan / Asia. We aim to help deliver a bright future to everyone who wants to enjoy sports and be healthy.
leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners/Co-Founder&CEO : Christoph Sonnen
This TOYOSHIMA investment is an important milestone for the development of leAD Sports. Having great partners allows us to expand globally early and strengthen our investment development business. In the Japan sports world, the sports tech market is about to take full swing. Building on our strong track record, we will work with TOYOSHIMA to drive sports and healthtech innovation in Asia. We expect that the partnership with TOYOSHIMA will support the growth of disruptive innovations originating in Asia and accelerate the expansion of Western investee companies into Asia.
■Toyoshima & Co., Ltd. HP
https://www.toyoshima.co.jp/
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■leAD Sports&Health Tech Partners HP
https://www.leadsports.com/
