Unable to hold face-to-face meetings with potential investors, venture capitalists are seeking new ways to meet start-ups, including a service which arranges virtual meetings inside the video game, Fortnite.
Matchbox.vc matches technology investors with start-up executives through video game sessions in the hopes that companies will find their dream investment.
Japanese men in their 30s and 40s are the biggest drivers of the bitcoin boom.
Forty percent of bitcoin trading between October and November was conducted in yen, according to a Nikkei report.
Japanese investors, mostly men, came to dominate trading after regulators started to shut down cryptocurrency exchanges in China.
"[UK tech startup] Improbable is building breakthrough technologies that are becoming vital and valuable platforms for the global gaming industry," Deep Nishar, managing director of investments at SoftBank, said in a statement. Beyond gaming, Nishar said, SoftBank believed Improbable’s simulation technology could be used to help explore disease, improve cities, understand economies and solve other complex problems. Nishar is joining Improbable’s board.
