About This Fund
The Geodesic Alliance Fund is a venture capital fund managed by Geodesic Capital, a San Francisco-based cross-border investment firm founded by former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos. Launched in 2025, the fund held a first close of $250 million in June 2025, with Geodesic Capital having raised nearly $1 billion across multiple funds since 2015. The Geodesic Alliance Fund is designed to advance technology and security cooperation between the United States and Japan by investing in early-stage U.S. companies operating in dual-use and national security domains. The fund targets startups building across artificial intelligence, space systems, cybersecurity, autonomy, and other deep technology sectors where commercial innovation intersects with national security. Portfolio companies receive not only capital but also strategic guidance, regulatory navigation support, and introductions to customers, partners, and talent within Japan's industrial and government ecosystem. The fund is led by Tom Gillespie, former Managing Partner at In-Q-Tel, the U.S. intelligence community's venture arm, alongside Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, a deep tech investor and former partner at Canaan Partners. Limited partners include prominent Japanese corporations and Japanese governmental institutions such as the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and NEC Corporation, reinforcing the fund's strategic alignment with Japan's economic security objectives. The Geodesic Alliance Fund builds on Geodesic Capital's prior funds which have backed companies including Databricks, Netskope, Saronic, and Scale AI in expanding into the Japanese market.