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Investor portfolio, from our funding record
Government-owned investor. Majority owned by the Japanese government. This is the list our funding rule 3 uses: a round every one of whose leads is government-owned is state capital, not a private round.
Recorded in our rows as: JIC Venture Growth Fund 2.
Counted rounds
4
Led
2
2 as participant
Companies
4
Disclosed round value
$80.4M
2 of 4 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share
First deal
2023-05-24
GITAI
Latest deal
2026-08-20
Letara
JIC Venture Growth Investments appears on 4 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 4 companies: recorded as lead on 2 and as a participant on 2.
The earliest is GITAI on 24 May 2023; the latest is Letara on 20 August 2026.
2 of the 4 rounds disclosed a size, together $80.4M. That is the size of the rounds JIC Venture Growth Investments took part in, not the amount JIC Venture Growth Investments invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.
The investor most often on the same counted rounds as JIC Venture Growth Investments is Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, on 3 rounds.
Private funding rounds into space companies that name JIC Venture Growth Investments as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.
| Date | Company | Stage | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetaraRecorded as Pre-Series A | Seed | Lead | Not disclosed | Letara (opens the source for this round) | |
| Orbital Lasers | Series A | Participant | Not disclosed | PR TIMES (opens the source for this round) | |
| ArkEdge Space | Series B | Lead | $51.5M | ArkEdge Space (press release) (opens the source for this round) | |
| GITAIRecorded as Series B Extension | Series B | ParticipantAs recorded: JIC Venture Growth Fund 2 | $28.9M | GITAI (press release) (opens the source for this round) |
Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.
| Stage | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Seed | 1 |
| Series A | 1 |
| Series B | 2 |
| Sector | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 4 |
| Year | Rounds |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.
Showing the 10 most frequent of 28 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.