Kyoto iCAP makes follow-on investment in VR depression therapy startup BiPSEE

Reuters2026/08/17 01:28

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Kyoto University Innovation Capital executed a follow-on investment in BiPSEE via the Innovation Kyoto 2021 Investment Limited Partnership.
BiPSEE is a Tokyo-based medtech developing VR-based digital therapeutics for depression, targeting patients underserved by conventional drug treatment.
The company’s depression VR therapy has shown promising results in clinical research, securing a Japanese priority review designation.
BiPSEE was founded in July 2017 by Masayo Matsumura, a specially appointed professor at Kochi University’s “Medical x VR” program.
The investor cited expansion potential beyond depression into broader psychiatric indications, aiming to reduce social costs while improving patient quality of life.

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Kyoto iCAP makes follow-on investment in VR depression therapy startup BiPSEE

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