Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Asia Private Equity Capital KK (APEC), is the venture capital subsidiary of West Wood Capital KK in Japan. Formerly known as MediBIC Alliance, established in 2004, APEC is headquartered in Tokyo with an office in Shanghai. The firm is majority-owned by a group of shareholders which includes management, with MediBIC holding a significant minority interest. In addition to managing a portfolio of direct participations in healthcare companies, APEC is involved in investment banking and IPO support activities for biotechnology companies in Japan and in Asia. The firm also sub-advises specialist investment funds for pharmaceutical companies and Japanese institutions including pension funds. APEC cooperates closely with pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) and leverages an extensive global network of contacts in the pharmaceutical sector.

Site Quality Co., Ltd. provides consulting services to medical institutions. It offers informed consent acquisition assistance, patient schedule administration, hospital data collection management, time monitoring, case report form preparation support, document creation assistance, and clinical research coordination. The company was founded in November 2003 and is headquartered in Hachioji, Japan.

Part of MediBIC Group, MediBIC KK develops genomic medicines. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was founded by Yasuhiro Hashimoto.

MediBIC Group is a holding company which engages in the biotechnology industry that specializes in pharmacogenomics (PGx). It engages in analysis and reporting service on healthcare and drug development; information processing, services and consulting in biotech field; computer system design and development; drug & diagnostic product development; and business consulting services. The firm’s services also include sample banking and management service, GLP-compliant Gene Profiling Service, genetic testing service, licensing, cell culture systems and consumable sale. The company was founded on February 17, 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Strand Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. develops software for drug research. It offers developing and marketing of various diagnostics tests for cancer and hereditary diseases. The firm also offers liquid biopsy test, somatic test, hereditary cancer test and inherited diseases test. The company was founded by Vijay Chandru, Ramesh Hariharan, Srinivasan Seshadri, Vinay Vishwanathan and Swaminathan Manohar in 2000 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Taqtik Health, Inc. provides medical care services. Its services include consulting, case management, critical illness insurance, second opinion, records retrieval and travel and planning. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Hashimoto and Rachel Rowling in December 2015 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.