Connecting advanced-technology companies
with Japan's industry and capital.
Founded in Tokyo in 2025, Ad Astra Capital is an independent advisory boutique and strategic business-matching firm. We support international companies entering Japan in the aerospace, energy, mobility, and infrastructure sectors, while also assisting Japanese companies in expanding abroad through export-credit (ECA) finance.
Introduction to Ad Astra
Ad Astra Capital is a Tokyo-based independent advisory boutique founded in 2025. As a strategic consultancy, we connect global opportunities. Our principals do the work themselves, in Japanese and English, with the companies, industrial partners, public agencies and financial institutions that decide whether a technology finds its place in Japan, and with Japanese companies taking their products abroad.
How we work.
1. Initial consultation, no charge
we listen and tell you plainly whether Japan is worth your time now.
2. Scoping study, fixed fee,
four to six weeks
who your partners, customers and public programmes could be, and how to approach them. We are paid to say no when the answer is no.
3. Japan Desk and mandates
a quarterly Japan Desk retainer for representation, meetings and monthly reporting, and feasibility or execution mandates once a project is defined.
Core Services Overview
Japan Market Entry and Expansion Support
Japan entry for international technology companies, and overseas expansion for Japanese companies: partner and customer search, meetings and follow-up in Japanese, public-programme mapping, representation through a Japan Desk, and programme development for international sports, entertainment and technology properties.
Client Focus
We work with international technology companies entering Japan, with the owners of international sports, entertainment and technology properties considering Japan, with Japanese companies expanding overseas, and with the industrial groups and institutions that partner with them.
Why AdAstra?
Senior-only delivery
the people you meet do the work.
Sector literacy
aerospace, energy, mobility and infrastructure, with an advisory board drawn from those fields.
Tokyo and London
our Tokyo head office and, through Avicon Consulting Ltd in the UK (under common ownership), London.
Paid to say no
every scoping study ends with a clear recommendation, including not to proceed.
DISCLAIMER
Ad Astra Capital K.K. is a strategic consultancy and business-matching firm. We are not a registered financial instruments business operator, investment adviser or bank in Japan or the United States. We do not hold client funds or securities; we do not buy, sell, broker or solicit investment in securities; we do not handle public or private offerings; and we do not provide legal or tax advice. Where a transaction involves securities, including SPAC mergers and capital raising, the economic terms are negotiated by the principals and the transaction is executed by licensed institutions in the relevant jurisdiction.
Where we describe ourselves as arrangers, we mean the client-side programme and transaction coordinator: we organise the process, prepare the analysis and coordinate meetings between the client and the relevant institutions. We do not negotiate loan terms, conclude financing contracts, lend or intermediate loans.
