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  • What is hard tech (and why we are so passionate about it?)

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Connecting Japanese Industry to AI and Semiconductor Hard Tech (Webinar) (Japanese)

Pangaea Venturesは白博堂およびCorundum Systems Biologyとともに、2026年6月24日(火)午後4時(PT)(日本標準時:6月25日午前8時)にオンラインウェビナーを開催します。PangaeaパートナーのAndrew Haughianが登壇し、AI、半導体、および周辺インフラにおけるグローバルなハードテック機会をどのようにマッピングしているか、またその変革から成る「新規事業の機会を見守る」立場から「新規事業を形成する」立場へと移行したい日本のコーポレートベンチャー・戦略リーダーにとって何を意味するかを共有します。

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Connecting Japanese Industry to AI and Semiconductor Hard Tech (Webinar)

Pangaea Ventures is joining Hakuhodo and Corundum Systems Biology for an online webinar on June 24 at 4pm PT (8am June 25 Japan Standard Time), featuring Pangaea Partner Andrew Haughian. Andrew will share how our team has mapped global hard tech opportunities in AI, semiconductors, and adjacent infrastructure.

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Why We’re Doubling Down on Kanvas

At Pangaea Ventures, we invest in bold hard tech innovations reshaping the future of industry and solving our planet’s (and its people’s) most pressing challenges. Kanvas Biosciences is a quintessential example leveraging groundbreaking spatial biology technology and precision microbiome therapeutics to address untapped opportunities in medicine and beyond. Here’s why we’ve invested again.

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The Agtech Reset - Part 2: (re)Growing Value

In Part 1 of the Agtech Reset series, we explored how a decade of misaligned capital and expectations left many ag and foodtech innovations stranded, even as fundamentals strengthened. In Part 2, we turn to the practical question: where, exactly, are the opportunities, and what does it mean to both fund and fix them.

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Kandai Yamashita joins Pangaea Ventures as investment lead in Tokyo

Pangaea Ventures is excited to welcome Kandai Yamashita as our new investment lead in Tokyo, further strengthening Pangaea’s long-standing partnership model with corporate limited partners and Japan’s hard tech ecosystem.

Pangaea Venturesは、東京に於ける新たな投資担当として山下 寛大(Kandai Yamashita)を迎えることになりました。これにより、当社が長年培ってきたコーポレートLPとのパートナーシップモデルと日本のHard Tech Ecosystemとの繋がりをより一層強化していきます。

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Building Hard Tech in the Desert: Why Our U.S. Office Calls Arizona Home

We’re often asked why our US office is in Phoenix. To us, the answer is clear. Arizona offers an unusually strong fit for hard tech: a rising startup hub, a deep pipeline of engineering and scientific talent, concentration in advanced manufacturing and semiconductors, and a supportive policy and business environment.

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Light at the Edge of Compute: Photonics and the Future of Data Infrastructure

Photonic networking offers a way around today’s bottlenecks by moving more of the data path into the optical domain, where light can carry far more information with lower loss than copper. This shift is not just another speed bump on a roadmap, it is part of a broader hard tech revolution in compute and networking infrastructure, where materials innovation and systems-level design are reshaping what is possible in AI-era data centers.

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