Digital Garage Reaches Basic Agreement on Strategic Partnership with Ion Pacific, Driving Transition to “Circular Management” of Investment Portfolio and Accelerating Achievement of Medium-Term Plan Target of Off-Balance-Sheet Assets Worth Over 30 Billion Yen
Summary
Digital Garage and Ion Pacific signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic partnership focused on deepening Japan's secondary market, expanding liquidity for unlisted equities, and building next-generation investment and analytics infrastructure. The firms will discuss creating joint funds and transferring a large portion of DG Ventures' investment assets to those vehicles to accelerate a shift to a circular, off-balance-sheet portfolio model and advance DG's mid-term goal of ¥30 billion off-balance measures. They also plan to jointly develop AI-driven investment, analysis, and monitoring tools to improve investment decision-making, transparency, and operational reproducibility. The MOU is non-binding and details on asset scope, structure, timing, and accounting will be determined through further negotiations.