We are not a services menu. These are the three structures through which we have actually built things, and what each side is expected to bring.
Mode 01
We invest our own capital into businesses operating in emerging markets, and we take an active role in running them. Minority stakes through to joint ventures.
What we bring
Capital on our own account ・ board-level involvement ・ an existing Indonesian operating platform ・ access to Japanese corporate partners and public funding ・ governance and reporting that a Japanese counterparty will accept
What we look for
An operating business, not a concept ・ a founder or management team who stays ・ food, agriculture, fisheries or adjacent value chains ・ a path to profitability that does not depend on grants
Typical structure
Minority equity through to 50/50 joint venture ・ 5–10 year horizon ・ board seat
Example
PT. Kenndo Fisheries Indonesia — established and operated by KENNDO since 2021.
Mode 02
We establish and run the local entity. This is the work most advisory firms hand back to the client.
What we do
Company incorporation and licensing ・ factory lease, build-out and equipment ・ hiring and payroll ・ accounting, tax and labour administration ・ supplier development ・ quality and hygiene systems ・ export documentation ・ ongoing project management
What we bring
A team that has done this in Indonesia and Myanmar ・ Japanese quality and hygiene standards, transferred in practice rather than on paper ・ a project management platform we built and use ourselves
What we look for
A committed principal on the other side ・ a defined market for the output ・ realistic capital for the first 24 months
Example
Technology transfer for octopus processing and hygiene management with PERINUS, Indonesia's state-owned fisheries company, under a JICA verification programme — followed by our own processing operation in Makassar.
Mode 03
Working with us puts your project in front of the Japanese side: corporates looking for overseas ventures, technology that can be licensed or transferred, quality standards that open export markets, and public funding programmes designed to finance exactly this kind of project.
We have implemented programmes for Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JICA, JETRO, the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMRJ), and ALIC, and we know which instruments a given project can realistically use.
OUR METHOD
Establish whether a business can win in this market. Demand, competition, regulation, and the social problem it solves.
Redesign the product for local conditions and build the model: customers, payers, pricing, channels, partners, cost structure.
Assemble the capital: our own investment, grants and public programmes, debt, joint-venture contribution, advance payments.
Incorporate, build, hire, negotiate, certify, sell. This is where most projects die and where we do most of our work.
KPI management, local leadership, governance, additional capital, and eventually a business that runs without us.
Stages 1 to 3 can be done from a desk. Stages 4 and 5 cannot. That is the whole point.
Tell us what you are building and where. If there is a fit, you will hear from us within two business days.