India, June 27 -- Starting this July, a Japanese venture capital firm will have a full-time investor sitting inside an Indian university classroom, not to teach, but to find the next founders before they have even started a company. Beyond Next Ventures, one of Japan's most active early-stage deeptech funds, is partnering with IILM University to turn students and faculty into startup builders, with a first-year target of 100 new ventures and a path to seed funding for the ones that stand out. It is an unusual move for a venture fund. Most investors compete for the same companies at the same stage, well after they are formed. Beyond Next Ventures is going several steps earlier, into the lab and the lecture hall, to reach talent and ideas at ...