Market entry & growth
For international companies entering Japan—and Japanese businesses ready to expand overseas.
Tokyo-based · Globally connected
Japan is closer
than you think.
Aventa opens doors between Japan and the world—combining market intelligence, high-level relationships and hands-on execution.
TokyoMetropolitan energy
KaruizawaSerene Japan
MARKET ENTRY◆STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS◆INVESTMENT◆INNOVATION ACCESS◆GLOBAL NETWORKS
Strategic partnerships
Finding the right corporate, institutional and financial partners, then moving the relationship forward.
Transactions & capital
Opportunity origination, M&A support and investment initiatives across Japan, India and Europe.
Technology access
A direct window into outstanding climate, deep-tech and regenerative innovation through the PDIE ecosystem.
GRIA founding assembly · New YorkThe uncommon advantage
Access is not a list of contacts.
It is earned trust.
For decades, Aventa’s leadership has built lasting relationships with entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, governments, media, researchers and innovators across the planet. We know how to bring the right people into a room—and how to turn the meeting into momentum.
25+years of Japan experience
20+countries across the PDIE ecosystem
2009Aventa founded in Tokyo
02 / FLAGSHIP FOCUS
India + Japan
A corridor built for this moment.Japan brings technology, industrial depth and patient capital. India brings scale, talent and entrepreneurial velocity.
Aventa and its partners connect these complementary strengths—from technology and SME access in Japan to capital, institutions, media and market activation in India.
Advanced manufacturingAI & digital infrastructureSemiconductorsEnergy & climate technologyHealthcare & life sciencesFood & agriculture
Explore a corridor opportunity ↗03 / CONNECTED ECOSYSTEMS
Business, innovation
and leadership.
Aventa works across complementary platforms that connect commercial opportunity with purpose-driven innovation and the development of globally minded leaders.
Access to outstanding innovation
Through its close relationship with the nonprofit PDIE Group, Aventa connects companies and investors with technologies and innovators addressing the defining challenges of our time—from climate and energy to food, water, biodiversity and regenerative cities.
Visit PDIE Group ↗JAPAN
GLOBAL LEADERS
GLOBAL LEADERS
Preparing Japan’s next generation for global leadership
Japan Global Leaders is an Aventa-led leadership initiative connecting emerging Japanese leaders with global thinkers, entrepreneurs and change-makers. Its annual journey builds purpose, cross-cultural capability, systems thinking and the confidence to act internationally.
For companies, it creates a pathway to develop globally capable talent and connect them with a rare international network.
Discover Japan Global Leaders ↗04 / PEOPLE
The people behind the bridge.
A compact senior team, amplified by trusted specialists and high-level networks around the world.
Christian Schmitz
Proprietor · Founder & CEO
More than 25 years of business experience spanning Japan and Europe. Former executive at Bayer, BASF, Henkel and hülsta; founder of Aventa and PDIE Group.
Anuj Naheta
India–Japan Network & Strategic Partnerships
Mumbai- and Tokyo-connected cross-border entrepreneur with more than 16 years of international deal experience across India, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Masako Amemiya
Innovation & Sustainability Advisor
Advisor to executives, innovation centres and universities, supporting breakthrough innovation in healthcare and sustainability across public and private sectors.
A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
Creating prosperity that serves life.
“The most important business opportunities of our time will come from building economic systems that restore—and do not merely extract.”
We are entering a decisive period. The economic models that generated extraordinary prosperity also contributed to climate disruption, biodiversity loss and growing social fragmentation. The next generation of wealth must be created differently.
At Aventa, we believe business can be one of the strongest forces for realizing positive, regenerative futures. That means helping companies cross borders, form new alliances and deploy technologies—but it also means asking what kind of future those activities create. Regeneration goes beyond reducing harm. It strengthens the natural, social and economic systems on which lasting prosperity depends.
Our work sits at this intersection: connecting the experience, technology and industrial capabilities of Japan with the scale and entrepreneurial momentum of India, the innovation strengths of Europe and a global network of purpose-driven leaders. We want to help build enterprises and investment structures that create financial value by restoring resilience, opportunity and life.
This is not a distant ideal. It is where the next generation of meaningful growth will be found. Aventa intends to remain at the forefront of creating it.
Christian SchmitzProprietor, Founder & CEO · Aventa Co., Ltd.
In development
India–EU–Japan
Growth Platform
Connecting European technology champions with Japanese strategic partners and the growth potential of India—aligning innovation, industry and scale across three complementary regions.
EUTechnologyJPIndustryINScale
The proposed platform is an independent initiative under development and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the EIF or official European Tech Champions Initiative.There is always a person on the other side of a market.