# Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Asia in October 2023

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## STRIVE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

## Jungle Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

## Sinovation Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Medical

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

## W ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care

W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.

## Fundinno
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, Health Care

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

## Welight Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Education, Information Technology

Welight Capital is an investment firm that invests in enterprise services, B2B, e-commerce, finance, education, new retail companies.

## Monk’s Hill Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care

We believe in great founders who will change millions of lives through technology.

## Skystar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

## ANRI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

## Qingsong Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Education, Health Care

Founded in June 2012 by Liu Xiaosong, Dong Zhanbin, and Su Wei, three Internet and investment circle veterans, Qingsong Fund is an early venture capital firm specializing in investment in education, social networking, consumerism, innovation, technology and applications. It manages four RMB funds with a total value of about RMB 2 billion. So far,it has invested in more than 140 companies, including 1 to 1 head, 1 DaDa English, squirrel AI, onion mathematics, wedding calendar, werewolf killing, flystep technology, HomeFacial. Pro and other star projects - 50% exit project returns more than 60 times, multiple project valuation multiples increased nearly 200 times, and educational projects have an average annual value increase of 500%. Among them, the Qingsong Smart Fund, which was newly established in 2018, focuses on the underlying technologies of the underlying AI and Smart Connect, as well as investment in such areas as smart healthcare, enterprise services and intelligent transportation applications. Liu Xiaosong, founding partner of Qingsong Fund, is a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. He invested in Tencent in 1999 and has a return on investment of tens of thousands of times. In 2000, he founded A8 New Media Group, which was successfully listed on the main board in Hong Kong in 2008. In 2015, he hatched in November 2018. Listed in Hong Kong stocks in the year. As a leading early investment institution in China, Qingsong Fund and its founding partners have repeatedly won Top 10 of Zero2IPO China's early investment institutions/investors, Top10 of China's education sector, Top100 of Chinese investors, and China's best early venture capital investment. Institution/Investor Top10; 36氪 China's new entertainment sector investment institutions Top10, online education sector investment institutions/investors Top10 and other mainstream awards.

## Edge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Gaming, Food and Beverage

Edge Ventures is a young equity investment fund. They are highly aligned with the interest of their founders, because they have been entrepreneurs too. With rich experience and top-level background in entrepreneurship, their management team are skilled in scouting the entrepreneurship spirit of outstanding candidates. Regardless of short-termrewards, they fight alongside their portfolio companies and fully support them in a long-term basis.They are highly aligned with the interest of their limited partners, because they invest in their selves too. With commitment of more than 20% self-funded capital in each EdgeVentures’ investment fund, they will control the fund size with intention of promising rate of return.

## FH Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Internet

Fenghou Capital is early-stage equity investment firm.

## SMBC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

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.

## FutureCap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Information Technology

Future Capital Discovery Ventures | The best way to predict the future is to create it.

## TLM
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, SNS

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

## Real Tech Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics

Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization).
The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

## K2VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

K2VC (Xianfeng Evergreen) was founded in 2010, focused on early stage investment in technology start-ups in China, focus on promoting change and technological progress, innovative business models and lifestyles.

## Kazuhiro Ishikura
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Beauty, Content, Fashion

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

## Plum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Plum Ventures is a venture capital company that aims to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs. It specializes ins providing seed and early-stage investments in the technology, new media, and telecommunications industry.
The firm was founded in May 2014 and is based in Changzhou, China.

## Keisuke Kogure
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Beauty, Women's, Wellness

Keisuke Kogure - General Partner @ TLM

## Hongdao Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce

Hongdao Capital invests in companies developing breakthrough technologies in artificial intelligence and life science.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Genesia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Content

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.

## Oriental Fortune Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing investment in early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, Pre-IPO, mature, growth capital stage, mezzanine and new third board investments. The firm typically invests in financial services, telecommunication, new energy, consumer goods, medical treatmentand healthcare, life sciences, internet plus healthy lifestyle industry, logistics, energy technology, information technology, mobile innovation, media, movies and television, culture, pharmaceutical, biological medicine, renewable energy, retail, environmental protection business, consumption, new materials, new agriculture, advanced manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, culture, entertainment, and services. It seeks to invest in China focusing on Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, and Wuhu. The firm also invests in Pearl River Delta region, Yangtze River Delta region, and Circum-Bohai-Sea region. For Pearl River Delta, it covers Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing cities in China. For Yangtze River Delta, the firm covers Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Hefei, Wuhu, Ma’anshan, Tongling, Anqing, Chuzhou, Chizhou, and Xuancheng cities in China. For the Circum-Bohai-Sea region, it covers Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Qingdao, Dandong, Yingkou, Panjin, Fuxin, Huludao, Chaoyang, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Cangzhou, Langfang, Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Handan, Xingtai, Dongying, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, Rizhao, and Binzhou cities in China. The firm prefers to invest 20% of its portfolio to early stage, 40% to expansion stage, and 40% to Pre-IPO stage. Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. was formed in November 2007 and is based in Shenzhen, China with offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; and Wuhu, China.

## Captii Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Apps

Captii Ventures is a multi-stage investor in Southeast Asian start-ups. It invests in marketplace that facilitates better matching of supply and demand, new media publishers that disrupt traditional channels of communications, and start-ups that use technology to solve age-old enterprise problems.

## Meitu
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Internet

Meitu offers free image and video apps for iOS and Android platforms.

## Formation 8
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies. They support entrepreneurs who seek to transform the most important global industries by solving hard problems with technology solutions. Partnership is in their DNA. Formation 8 value trustedrelationships with entrepreneurs, investors, and strategic partners through their global network.As a partner to young companies, Formation 8's goal is to create long-term, sustainable value through operational expertise and business development partnerships. Formation 8 leverage their deep and distributed networks to provide the market knowledge, deployment expertise, sales channels, and relationships needed to expand into and thrive in Asia. With local teams in Korea, China and Singapore, Formation 8 connect Silicon Valley start-ups to dynamic multinational corporations in these geographies.

## Angel Bridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, Consulting

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

## Nexyz.Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Beauty, SNS, Video

Nexyz.Group provides facility installation service for LED lighting.

## Cathay Capital Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Automotive, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce

Cathay Capital is a leading, cross-border private-equity firm dedicated to supporting the international development of small and middle-market companies across North America, China and Europe. Created by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, Cathay Capital prides itself on its multicultural and highly-experienced investment team, which is committed tobuilding companies and long-term value across three continents though its unique value-creation strategy.

## Lakson Venture Capital (LVC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Travel, E-Commerce

Lakson Investments Venture Capital (LIVC) invests in Pakistan based opportunities. The firm concentrates on investments where technology can be leveraged to enable, enhance and disrupt existing business models or create new ones.LIVC's investment focus is at the stage in the start-up lifecycle where the company is less than 36-48 months awayfrom a successful Series A round or potential exit. The firm also invests in select Seed rounds through its Incubation and Accelerator ecosystem relationships as well as overseas partners in Silicon Valley and Europe where it seeks to bring proven foreign technology to Pakistan.The firm's team comprises of a diverse set of investors, domain experts, operators, and entrepreneurs with a successful track record of bringing big ideas to fruition.LIVC invests alongside entrepreneurs and local businesses to build new enterprises and through investing seed capital, take ideas to the next stage. It works with Lakson Investments’ (“LI”) team of over 50 experienced professionals while at the same time, leverage the operational experience of the Lakson Group. Over 14,000 people are employed by Lakson in Pakistan in businesses across sectors such as: Technology (CyberNet & Sybrid), Broadcast and Print Media (Express Media Group), FMCG (Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan), Insurance, and QSR (McDonald’s Pakistan).LI is one of the largest private sector asset managers in Pakistan with over US$300mn under management with a rating of AM2+.

## Dark Horse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Education

Dark Horse Venture is a venture capital firm that invests at early-stage startups in industrial internet and technology.

## ZhenFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.

## Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series D, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust provides Japanese equity products for corporate and governmental pension funds. SMTB also provides products investing in Asian equities. The capability was developed through its experience in Japanese equity, although it maintains an investment team in Hong Kong.

## Keio Innovation Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.

## Pegasus Tech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

## Astellas Venture Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.

## Korea Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

## Glocalink
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Robotics, Task Management

Glocalink provides seed funding and comprehensive support for emerging science & technology entrepreneurs. Members of Glocalink have extensive experiences of bringing laboratory technologies to the market. On top of seed funding, we will provide comprehensive supports for overcoming all the hurdles that science / technology entrepreneursface.

## Hillhouse Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changyang, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Hillhouse Capital Group is an investment management firm that invests with a long-term time horizon. Hillhouse owns companies across equity stages, spanning the range from new start-ups to the world’s most established public companies. It may invest in a company as a start-up and continue to hold it in the portfolio as a public equity investment.This stage-agnostic investment style allows them to focus on multi-year results, rather than on quarterly earnings.Hillhouse Capital Group invests globally, with a particular focus on Asia. Independent, proprietary research lies at the heart of our investment process. Our team members are sector experts in consumer, Internet, media, and healthcare. Hillhouse Capital Group was founded in 2005 and is based in Beijing, China.

## Cathay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Electronics

A pioneering global investment firm supporting companies at every stage of their lifecycle to grow, thrive and lead across borders.

## Angel Plus China
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Health Care

Angel Plus is a China-based venture capital firm.

## UTokyo Innovation Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

## AgFunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

## ITOCHU Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

## iSGS Investment Works
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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