TOKYO/NEW YORK -- In mid-October, David Milstein returned to Tokyo after a business trip and opened the Slack channel where he communicated online with other directors and members of the Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA), an industry body representing more than 200 venture capital (VC) companies.
What he saw left Milstein, managing partner of Fidelity's VC arm Eight Roads Ventures Japan, in "disbelief" -- and has stirred the debate ever since about how to make the Japanese VC industry more diverse and inclusive.
