KOMPEITO Lists On Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market
An Okayama-based regional bank fund carried a startup running workplace cafeterias all the way to a TSE Growth listing, which is the exit path regional bank venture funds are built for and rarely reach.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
KOMPEITO Co., Ltd. listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on September 11, under securities code 618A. The company runs the installed healthy company cafeteria service OFFICE DE YASAI, placing refrigerators and freezers in offices to give workers access to healthy meals. Chugin Capital Partners, which held KOMPEITO through its Chugin Infinity Fund No. 1, announced the listing. CEO Shun Watanabe said the company aims to become infrastructure for the food and health of working people.
Chugin Capital Partners operates the Chugin Infinity Fund No. 1 out of Okayama. KOMPEITO was a portfolio company of that fund until September 11, when it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market under securities code 618A.
The company's core business is OFFICE DE YASAI, an installed-type healthy company cafeteria service. Refrigerators and freezers placed in offices let employees get healthy meals without leaving the building, which the company positions alongside corporate health management and human capital management.
CEO Shun Watanabe credited support from many companies and users, and named Chugin Capital Partners and The Chugoku Bank as backers. He said the company will aim to become infrastructure for the food and health of working people.
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