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Top 10 Android Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Android startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Android startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
Shinsei Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Seed Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android $25M–$412M
Excite Japan
VC Fund
1
TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A Internet, Content, Advertising $6.9M–$165M
Taisei
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Robotics, Drones, Android
istyle
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Video $32M–$110M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet $3.7M–$32M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Content, Media and Entertainment $1.5M–$87M
Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Hardware, Internet of Things $1M–$34M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $5.9M–$302M
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Series A $18M–$165M; Series B $21M–$357M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Shinsei Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

Shinsei Capital Partners invested startup companies engaged in life science such as biotech or digital health technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series B $25M–$412M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
  • MiraBiologics — Through the development of next-generation multifunctional biopharmaceuticals (neobiologics) using technology based on a unique new concept , we will realize our mission, grow as a global company, and contribute to human health care. By developing biopharmaceuticals with new modalities using LassoGraft Technology ® as a core technology, we willwork on solving unmet medical needs, satisfying treatment methods in the field of rare diseases, and proposing solutions to expensive medical problems.
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Excite Japan
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

Excite Japan is a Japan-based company focused on the development of internet businesses in Japan. Starting with operations of a portal site, its business model has grown through being focused on services targeted at women.Excite Japan’s revenue is derived from placed-advertising by companies as a media content portal, internet-connection servicefees, and the provision of paid content to users. It was launched in 1997 and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Open8 — Open8 is a content technology company that provides of SaaS, API, and MLaaS solutions.
  • LOCONDO — Locondo is an e-commerce company that sells shoes and fashion.
  • RoomClip — RoomClip is a photo-sharing service where users can find inspiration for their home and life.
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TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

TBS Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the media, content, entertainment, and IT sectors. It finances companies engaged in tech companies in sectors like Digital Media, E-commerce, AdTech, and Big Data Analytics. Top investments include iRidge, Fringe 81, Open Eight, Data Section, Piece of Cake. The company has 20 millionyen of assets under management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Series A $21M–$137M; Series B $6.9M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Okage — Okage provide smartphone orders, tablet menus, and POS cash register services linked to them that allow you to order restaurants by smartphone.
  • Vark — ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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Taisei
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

Comprehensive building maintenance company headquartered in Nagoya city, with offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Hamamatsu and Osaka. They are developing comfort proposal type business activities in various scenes including cleaning, security, facility management and renewal of office buildings, maintenance and parking of hotels, management ofunderground malls, preservation of park plants.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Drones, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yolo Japan — Yolo is a Operation of information media for foreign residents and residents of Japan.Operation of Operation of YOLO BASE, a working inbound facility for foreign residents and residents of Japan Community English conversation service for children Sharing English conversation service that utilizes free time International students, residents /residents and foreign visitors to Japan Market research services
  • Mira Robotics — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Blue Innovation — Development of a safe flight management system for unmanned aerial vehicles Solutions for R & D and unmanned aerial vehicles Research and development projects System development business General operations Japan UAS Industry Promotion Council (JUIDA) administrative work (secretariat).
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istyle
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

istyle, Inc. engages in the management of beauty-related online platforms as well as the provision of advertising, marketing, and research services. It operates through the following segments: On Platform, Beauty Service, Global, and Others. The On Platform segment deals with domestic and overseas marketing, as well as premium membershipservices. The Beauty Service segment manages domestic cosmetics electronic commerce sites in addition to its specialty shop @cosme store. The Global segment includes services developed overseas. The Others segment covers beauty staff dispatching and investment training services. It has overseas subsidiaries including in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and The United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $32M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Toreta — Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, andaccepts reservations through the internet.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • standing ovation — Standing ovation develops and offers fashion coordination applications.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$38M; Series A $27M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups

Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$22M; Series A $6.5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
  • ImaCreate — ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system.
  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Android startups, 13 in the past 12 months

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$179M; Series B $5.9M–$302M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
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Android Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 40 deals from 87 investors.

87
investors
in Japan Android startups
40
deals
in Japan Android startups
$62M
median round
in Japan Android startups
24%
lead investors
lead at least one round
15%
Seed
most common funding stage
97/3
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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