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About VURA

Redefining
Enterprise Value.

Invest.
Operate.
Redefine.

 

VURA Capital Innovation Holdings Inc. is a Japan-born investment, operating, and value creation platform that executes “Enterprise Redefinition” in the age of AI.

 

VURA is neither a traditional consulting firm nor a passive investment fund.

VURA integrates capital, management, technology, and execution to transform enterprise value at the structural level.

 

Many companies possess value that has not yet been fully defined.

In the AI era,
knowledge,
analysis,
and optimization are rapidly becoming democratized.

 

Therefore,
future competitive advantage will not come from merely improving existing structures,
but from redefining what value itself should be.

 

That is what VURA believes.

VURA invests,
enters management,
and redefines.

 

Through this integrated model,
VURA aims to create non-linear enterprise value growth.

 

Rather than simply advising from the outside,
VURA enters organizations directly
to transform management,
business structures,
organizations,
and value creation systems from within.

 

The core concept of VURA is
“Enterprise Redefinition.”

 

This is not simply business improvement.

 

It means redesigning the very structure through which enterprises create value,
are evaluated,
and connect with society.

Mission
To make people around the world happier through social transformation, technological transformation, and capital transformation.

Vision
Invest.
Operate.
Redefine.
Create enterprise value.
Create the future.

Value
Redefine the very standards of value itself.

Company Name
VURA Capital Innovation Holdings Inc.

CEO
Naoki Kadowaki

 

Business
Investment, Operating, and Enterprise Redefinition

 

Headquarters
Shiodome Building, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Capital
JPY 10 million

 

Established
2026

Naoki Kadowaki

President & CEO

Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University.

Began his career as an engineer at Sony Group before joining IBM.

At IBM, he led initiatives in:

  • AI

  • advanced technologies

  • digital transformation

  • new business creation

  • enterprise-wide transformation

with global experience including an assignment in New York.

He later served as CEO of a PE-backed portfolio company, leading management reform, business growth, and organizational transformation.

Adjunct Lecturer at Keio University Business School
“Digital Technology and Management”

Member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai)

His life work is to reconnect business, technology, and capital to redefine enterprise value and create the future.

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Naoki Kadowaki profile and VURA enterprise redefinition leadership
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