# Icon Capital

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/icon-capital

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
- Website: www.iconcapital.jp/
- Total disclosed funding: $0.6M
- Latest round: Series A (Jun 11, 2024)
- Investors on record: 1

## About

Founded in 2024, and based in Tokyo, Japan, Icon Capital addresses succession challenges for small and medium-sized businesses through its investment and consulting services, focusing on employees and successors. In June 2024, Icon Capital raised JPY 100 million in venture funding from investor Innovative Search Fund.

The company's core product, the employee succession model, offers a sustainable alternative to traditional mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Icon Capital purchases shares of the company and becomes a long-term shareholder, collaborating with new management to ensure stability and growth. This model includes implementing stock-based compensation systems to return profits to employees, fostering a sense of ownership and continuity.

The company will use the June 2024 funds for investments in employee succession, aligning with their mission to address the lack of successors in small and medium-sized businesses and create vibrant local companies by focusing on people as the starting point.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Jun 11, 2024, $0.6M — Innovative Search Fund

## Investors

- Innovative Search Fund — Series A