April 13, 2026
BIRD INITIATIVE, Inc.
Representative Director and CEO Satoshi Konno
Contact: Public Relations
info@bird-initiative.com
URL：https://bird-initiative.com
Notice Regarding the Conclusion of a Strategic Partnership Agreement with NANO Holdings Inc.
BIRD INITIATIVE Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Satoshi Konno; hereinafter "BIRD") is pleased to announce that it has concluded a strategic partnership agreement with NANO Holdings Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, Chairman and President CEO: Jun Matsumura; hereinafter "NANO"), a company engaged in investment operations primarily in the bio and healthcare sectors.
1. Background and Purpose of This Partnership
NANO promotes "carve-out investment from large corporations — including businesses, subsidiaries, and pipelines" as one of the key pillars of its investment strategy. In recent years, against the backdrop of large corporations reassessing their R&D investments and reorganizing or restructuring non-core businesses, there has been a growing number of business and technology assets in the healthcare sector that hold significant latent value yet have not been given sufficient opportunities for growth.
This partnership aims to support NANO's carve-out investment strategy by providing our expertise in generative AI system development for new business development, along with our knowledge in business creation and carve-out execution. Through this collaboration, the goal is to sophisticate, systematize, and accelerate the entire process — from deal origination and investment decision-making to business design and post-carve-out launch.
2. Our Role and the Value Created Through This Partnership
Our company specializes in new business creation originating from research and development (R&D) and technology assets, as well as supporting the carve-out of businesses and technologies buried within large corporations. We possess extensive experience and end-to-end execution capabilities to guide carve-out companies toward success — spanning practical areas such as intellectual property and talent transfer, capital policy design, and investor relations, through to coordination with parent companies. Through this partnership, we will contribute to the evolution of NANO's carve-out investment strategy across the following three areas.
- Sophistication of the Carve-Out Candidate Deal Origination and Evaluation Process:
Leveraging our position of regular engagement with the R&D and new business divisions of large corporations, as well as our AI-driven business structuring methodology, we will rapidly organize and evaluate technology and business assets buried within large corporations in a form ready for investment decision-making. - Improvement of Investment Decision-Making Speed and Reproducibility:
We will visualize and systematize the pre-carve-out deliberation process — which tends to be overly reliant on individual expertise — by leveraging our new business development-specialized AI, "BIIM Cloud®," along with our proprietary frameworks. This will enable the mass generation of business ideas and the evaluation of business maturity, thereby improving the speed and reproducibility of the process from deal origination through to investment decision-making. - Acceleration of Post-Carve-Out Business Launch:
By structurally organizing technology, market, and business viability prior to investment execution — and by clearly defining business hypotheses, growth scenarios, and anticipated exit strategies before proceeding with the carve-out — we aim to facilitate the establishment of a post-carve-out management structure and smooth business advancement, targeting early value creation.
3. About NANO Holdings Inc.
Focused primarily on the bio and healthcare sectors, NANO invests in unlisted companies and listed ventures, as well as pharmaceutical company pipelines and carve-outs of subsidiaries and business divisions from large corporations. By acquiring target assets through carve-outs and providing end-to-end support — encompassing growth capital injection, redesign of management and business strategy, and matching — NANO realizes an investment strategy centered on high-value-added businesses with a clear view toward unlocking corporate value and achieving exit.
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