is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.
The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is the fifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.https://web.archive.org/web/20061208100528/http://www.mizuho-vc.co.jp/hp/p2_company/p2_html/p2_05.html
Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively. Mizuho Capital has also made acquisitions of other companies, including of Vantec.[1] Mizuho then sold its shares of Vantec in 2011.[2]