Every Thursday evening, five floors up in Toranomon Hills, CIC Tokyo turns into the closest thing Japan has to a standing founder bar. Six parallel sessions run from 16:00 to 21:00: investor office hours, technical talks, market-entry clinics, community pitches, and then a long open floor where nobody minds if you walk up and introduce yourself. It is free, it is bilingual, and it is the one room in Tokyo where foreign founders, Japanese operators and corporate venture people reliably overlap. Edition #395 and still going, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Venture Café Tokyo
Meetup Thursday 3 September 2026 · 16:00 · Venture Café Tokyo
