Ryosuke Kimura founded Lifetime Ventures in January 2017 as a young emerging VC fund manager (then 29 years old) and has been consistently investing in pre-seed-stage startups aiming for long-term innovation that will be loved for up to 30 years. In 2022, in collaboration with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Lifetime Ventures established the OIST-Lifetime Ventures Fund and began activities in the deeptech space. As of the end of 2023, more than 30% of the management team of companies funded by this fund are women, and more than 60% are of minority nationality, leading investment activities with high diversity even by global standards and promoting support for entrepreneurs aiming for the world from the very initial stage of founding.