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Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Big Data startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Big Data startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $1M–$102M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Internet, Medical $925k–$69M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6.8M–$112M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $11M–$330M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Software $700k–$206M
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Internet of Things, Software, Energy $3.8M–$536M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $4.3M–$330M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.8M–$343M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Advertising $8.9M–$66M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
m8 Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, SaaS $1.2M–$7M
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Malaysia Series A, Seed Software, Internet, SaaS $627k–$55M
Dentsu Innovation Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B Information Technology, Marketing, Software $6.9M–$137M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$247M
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $758k–$42M
Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
OGIS-RI
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Software, Logistics
Sky9 Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Blockchain, Software, Information Technology $1.5M–$100M
DOGAN beta
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$330M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Content, Media and Entertainment $1.5M–$87M
AirTrip
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Task Management, Analytics, Information Technology $1.4M–$14M
Yasumasa Manabe
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Information Technology, Drones, Big Data
WERU Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Consulting, Software $1.5M–$14M
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics $5M–$357M
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Germany Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Mobile $6M–$275M
Mastercard
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Corporate Round FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $750k–$100M
Waseda University
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B FinTech, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
Skyarch Networks
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SaaS, Big Data, Software
MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series C Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $500k–$165M
Old Fashion Research
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain
Yusaku Maezawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series C Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
NTT DATA Getronics Corp.
VC Fund
1 Japan FinTech, Big Data, Software
TIS Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Series C, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $740k–$481M
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Internet, Information Technology, Software $12M–$357M
Salesforce
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Canada Grant, Series A Software, SaaS, Non Profit $14M–$86M
Venture United
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Software, Information Technology $492k–$23M
Missuestin Dormitory
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
Jo Hirao
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Series B, Seed, Series C Retail, E-Commerce, College Recruiting
The Creative Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
Keisuke Tomimatsu
Angel
1 Japan Angel CRM, Big Data, Analytics
Smrti Lab
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $5.3M–$10M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Internet $3M–$250M
IMO Ventures
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech $500k–$35M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Information Technology, Internet, Software $1.4M–$577M
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Internet $920k–$118M
Visionnaire Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $350k–$37M
SPARX Innovation for the Future
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A, Seed Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication $22M–$247M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $961k–$137M
Primal Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Task Management $1.4M–$18M
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$27M; Series A $11M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Spacely — Spacely is a cloud software that allows you to easily create, edit and manage VR web contents using photos taken with a 360 degree camera. From April 1, 2018 the service name has been changed from 3D Stylee to Spacely.
  • any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $925k–$55M; Series A $14M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
  • Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$112M; Series A $6.8M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
  • LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 259
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$96M; Series B $12M–$330M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
  • EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Drones, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet of Things, Software, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $3.8M–$206M; Series B $7.6M–$536M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $137M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
  • Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
  • Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 12 in the past 12 months

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$22M; Series A $11M–$91M; Series B $4.9M–$330M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Cofactr — Whether managing shortages today or planning for next year, Cofactr is the place to get all the parts you need, when you need them.
  • Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Series A $7.8M–$130M; Series B $25M–$343M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Local, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $8.9M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data 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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m8 Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

m8 Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that funds mobile technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuller — Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab.App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active usersof the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more.App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market.Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.
  • Applauze — Applauze, formerly 955Dreams Inc., is a new age publishing company. They publish magical titles on mobile devices. Their latest product, called Applauze launched in March of 2013, is an iOS app that presents users with thousands of events happening every day, from concerts and theater productions to sports games and community events. Theservice is available across 41 U.S. cities and 5 Canadian cities.Applauze finds tickets from primary sellers, as well as secondary markets like StubHub, and uses data analytics and machine learning to recommend relevant events to users, who can easily purchase tickets via the app and also share their event with friends.Applauze is a small group of hackers and designers who are working on mobile products that will engage and excite you. They love what they do and their users love the products they've built. Their designs are executed at a very high standard and their apps are educational and highly immersive at the same time. Applauze has raised money from Mitch Kapor and 500 Startups.
  • Just Sing It — Domain for Sale. JustSingIt.com. Request Price. What Are the Advantages of a Super Premium .Com Domain? Increased Traffic. Search Engine Ranking. Brand Recognition. Immediate Presence. Higher Profits. Great Investment. #1 in Premium Domains. 300,000 of the World's Best .Com Domains.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $627k–$55M; Series A $5.1M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Housmart — Housmart is a real estate media company
  • StoreHub — StoreHub is an all-in-one POS system that helps future-proof F&B and retail businesses in Southeast Asia. Manage and grow your business, anytime, anywhere.
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Dentsu Innovation Partners
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Dentsu Innovation Partners manages corporate venture capital funds for Dentsu Group. It is specialized in the digital domain with the objectives of creating a worldwide digital business market and expanding the Dentsu Group's digital businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Marketing, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $8.2M–$21M; Series B $6.9M–$137M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • Monstar Lab — Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.
  • Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 54 in the past 12 months

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$165M; Series B $10M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
  • Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $758k–$8.2M; Series A $1.8M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Jenfi — Drive growth with Jenfi's revenue-based financing. Tailored funding for marketing & expansion. Flexible repayments. Apply now.
  • MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
  • Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
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Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Anyplace — Rent move-in-ready apartments designed for productivity. Fully furnished, including a state-of-the-art home office setup. Available for short or long-term stays.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
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OGIS-RI
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

OGIS-RI is a system development company under the umbrella of Osaka Gas. OGIS-RI is deployed to target a wide range of industries. OGIS-RI is an affiliated company of the Daigas Group (Osaka Gas Group).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hacobu — Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform toaccumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.
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Sky9 Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for society, the environment and individual lives. Sky9 Capital team includes senior experts, entrepreneurs, and experienced investors from diverse backgrounds. Since 2011, the team hasmanaged a number of USD and RMB funds, whose total assets under management of nearly USD 2 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
  • EthStorage — EthStorage is a crypto startup and It is a storage rollup built on top of ethereum.
  • KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$330M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data 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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AirTrip
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

AirTrip is an online travel agency.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $8.2M–$14M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TourBase — TOUR BASE, which creates a super tourism nation Nippon, is the base of travel Naka.The tour base operates a tourism logistics platform with the vision of “Creating a super tourism nation Nippon”. Travel Naka base will be set up in the sightseeing spots in Japan to build a micro logistics network specialized in sightseeing spots.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
  • Upsell Technologies — Upsell Technologies is Customer data analysis service platform.
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Yasumasa Manabe
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Yasumasa Manabe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Drones, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Miraikikai — Miraikikai is a start-up originating from Kagawa University with a mission to create intelligent mobile robots for professional-use.Their robots products, designed based on field reseach to provide the high quality and the best cost effective solution, are achieved with mechanical design and control technology backed by the latest researchachievements and years of experience.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
  • XTREME-D Inc. — XTREME-D, formerly known as XTREME-Design Inc., is well-known in Japan for architecting technical computing in the cloud. The award-winning company develops and sells XTREME-DNA, a cloud-based, virtual, supercomputing-on-demand service. XTREME-DNA was launched to cut costs and make it easy to build HPC clusters in just in 10 minutes.XTREMEDEISIGN Inc. was founded in February 2015 by Naoki Shibata. And it is based in Tokyo.
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WERU Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

As a pioneer and innovator in venture capital in Japan for the past 2 decades, we are deeply engaged in developing and supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups by leveraging our strategic position as a conduit between government, business and academia.“WERU” is the first research unit in the field of entrepreneurship in Japan established byprofessors at the graduate school, Waseda University in 1993. “WERU Investment” is the first venture capital closely associated with university research labs, centers and institutes in japan. WERU Investment provides financial services for institutional investors (e.g. Pension funds and Endowments) as a Japanese discretionary investment manager (DIM) by fully taking advantage of these research resources, accumulated know-how and strong network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Consulting, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $7.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • INCGROW — INCGROW is a business consulting firm that supports SMEs through business alliances.
  • Synfini — Transforming modern drug discovery by uniting physical and virtual chemistry to deliver novel therapeutics for the benefit of human health and longevity.
  • ELternal — ELternal develops tourism resources for shrines and temples. Their services include business process support, sns utilisation support, and website creation for temples.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$330M; Series B $5M–$357M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • QUADRAC — QUADRAC is a develop, manufacture, and sell telecommunication devices as well as payment servers for public transportation systems. The company aims to improve user convenience through a variety of payment methods, and to contribute to the realization of a cashless society. QUADRAC's thin-client type high-speed server "Q-CORE" isable to consolidate all of the fare calculation, payment, and security functions carried out by train station ticket gates and payment.
  • ANYCOLOR — ANYCOLOR is an entertainment start-up that provides creator support and licensing business, mainly for the support and operation of virtual rivers participating in the “Nijisanji Project”. Using the latest technology, we will shape our thoughts on society as a new era of cutting-edge, and provide a magical experience to the everyday lives of peoplearound the world.
  • GRA Japan — GRA is a Production and sales and export of agricultural products company.
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$275M; Series B $10M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
  • Eclypsium — Eclypsium's platform enhances supply chain security by incorporating zero-trust in every device, fortifying hardware, firmware, and software.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
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Mastercard
VC Fund · Purchase, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$34M; Corporate Round $750k–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
  • MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
  • Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
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Waseda University
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Waseda University is a Tokyo-based private university that offers various degree programs. As the second private university to be founded in Japan, Waseda University is considered to be one of Japan's most prestigious universities, consistently ranking amongst the top universities in Japanese university rankings. The University has manynotable alumni in Japan, with seven Prime Ministers of Japan and many CEOs, including Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO and wealthiest man in Japan.Waseda University's main campus is located in the Nishi-Waseda district of Shinjuku. Apart from the main campus in Shinjuku, It has other campuses around the country, including Toyama Campus and Nishi-Waseda Campus in Shinjuku; Nihonbashi Campus in Chuo-ku; Higashifushimi Campus in Nishitokyo; Tokorozawa Campus in Tokorozawa; Honjo Campus in Honjo, Saitama; and Kitakyushu Campus in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka.The university has more than fifty thousand students and staff, comprising 13 undergraduate schools, 23 graduate schools, and other research and affiliated institutes, and is one of the 13 universities in the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's ""Global 30"" Project. It has partnerships with more than 600 universities and tertiary institutions, with many international students studying abroad at Waseda University each year.Established in 1882 as the Tōkyō College by Okuma Shigenobu, the school was renamed Waseda University in 1902 after the founder's hometown village.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zuva KK — Zuva KK provides an information platform dedicated to overseas startups based on the project.
  • ZAISAN Net — ZAISAN Net is the well-known leading AI-Fintech startup in Japan, specializing in handling time-series of data like stock price movements. Institutional investors benefit from ZAISAN Net’s AI forecast signals and alerts while consumers have access to Kabuto-yohou, the stock forecast from wall-street in Japan, which is already popular and has beenintroduced on World Business Satellite, TV program similar to CNN.
  • SymBio Pharmaceuticals — SymBio Pharmaceuticals Limited operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It offers Symbenda medicine for treating low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphatic leukemia in Singapore. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Skyarch Networks
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Skyarch Networks offers a multi-service portfolio, including server managing, monitoring, DevOps, and IT consulting. The company focuses on the areas of Internet-of-Things, cloud security, networking, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlterBooth — AlterBooth develops software centered on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It began operation on March 19, 2015, with its headquarters in Fukuoka in Japan.
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MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 9 in the past 12 months

MZ Web3 Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Developer Platform
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ZTX — ZTX is a web-3 virtual world that supports communities and creators. ZTX is a blockchain project that jump crypto and ZEPETO, the largest avatar social network, have collaborated on.
  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • Aki Network — Aki offers a web3 growth stack to track actual influencer promotion results using on-chain data-driven goods. A variety of products and services have been developed by Aki Network to enable more users and influencers to participate in high-quality project campaigns and get commensurate compensation.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$45M; Series A $11M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
  • CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
  • Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.
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Old Fashion Research
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Old Fashion Research

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTEye — NFTEye is an all-in-one platform that provides both deep analytics and professional trading suites. With NFTEye Analytics, customers can identify potential opportunities through hot mints, trending collections, bluechip index, and other valuable metrics & signals. NFTEye Trading Suites also provide services like real-time Sniper, SmartBidding, Smart Minting, etc., to help traders capture the potential opportunities. Our vision is to make NFT trading more intelligent for both professional and retail investors.
  • Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
  • Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.
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Yusaku Maezawa
Angel · Mihama, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Yusaku Maezawa is a Founder at Zozotown.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WEB3DEV — The biggest web3 developers community in Latin America is based on 3 pillars: Community, Education and Building. Community: We created mechanisms with incentives to engage a community of software developers to create exclusive and high quality content about web3 technologies. The community members help each other to enter the web3 space. Our community is organized in pods, each pod for a different theme or blockchain. Each pod has a leader, which helps that pod to evolve, promoting growth to the ecosystem and the whole web3dev community. We already have leaders for Ethereum, Cardano, Algorand and Solana. We incentivize those pods, creating bounties and paying individual contributors when they create new content and deliver value. Education: The education platform, created by the community, is the place where everybody effectively learns about blockchain technologies. The courses are didactic self-paced project based learning. We give NFT reward as certificates for students who finish the projects. Building: We find companies that need developers and match our talent community members with maker demands. We build developers team for web3 companies and help these teams to succeed.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
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NTT DATA Getronics Corp.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

NTT DATA Getronics Corp. provides business solution services, ICT services, and network technology services, as well as related consulting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Big Data, Software
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COMTURE — COMTURE is a provider of Cloud, Big data, AI, IoT, Business system construction, ERP, Fintech, and Infrastructure construction solutions. The company was founded in January 1985 and is based in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
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TIS Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series C, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$69M; Series C $7.5M–$481M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Credify — Credify serviceX enables digital ecosystem operators to offer attractive and contextual financial services, built on top of a verified digital identity platform
  • Pixmoving — PIX Moving develop and manufacture the next-gen smart vehicles powered by its proprietary Ultra-skateboard chassis platform. PIX is an innovator and global leader of groundbreaking smart connected vehicles. Based on the research and development of PIX Ultra-skateboard chassis platform, a wide range of purpose-built robo-vehicles, commercialvehicles and passenger cars can be built and developed. Currently PIX products have expanded to 20 countries around the world and the company is growing rapidly. With the modular architecture, PIX products are more smart and flexible, covering 30+ application scenarios worldwide, which makes PIX a full-stack autonomous driving company with the most versatile scenario solutions. Moreover , PIX has developed the award-winning large-scale in-house metal 3D printing system, the dieless forming system as well as the real-time manufacturing. Combined with its patented vehicle generative design algorithms, PIX is capable of reducing vehicle parts and the assembly work by 70%, which enables easier maintenance and meanwhile disrupts the automotive industry from design to manufacturing, beaconing the next-generation of smart vehicle production.
  • Aino Indonesia — Aino Indonesia is a payment processing company and system integrator for public transportation.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$275M; Series B $33M–$357M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $522M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
  • Orange — About Us With a mission of Creating a world where everyone enjoys manga since our founding in 2021 Orange has been developing various manga specialized deep l
  • SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
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Salesforce
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. It is best known for its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. It offers users a customer community, partner community, developer community, and an app exchange marketplace. Salesforce provides its products and services tovarious industries, including healthcare, finance, life sciences, automotive, media, retail, manufacturing, and communications.Salesforce's products portfolio includes Sales Cloud: a platform that enables users to track customer information and interactions in one place via its contact management, opportunity management, sales collaboration, and sales performance management services; Service Cloud: tools that enable users to access personalized, 24/7, and intelligent customer service, along with multichannel support; Marketing Cloud: a platform that offers email, mobile, and social media marketing services, along with web personalization and advertising services; Community Cloud: an online collaboration platform that connects customers, partners, and employees; and Analytics Cloud: a platform that enables users to share datasets and insights, access them and find answers for their questions, and collaborate with their teams via any device.Data.com is a cloud-based automated system with an online business directory of companies and business professionals that enables users to acquire and manage CRM records within a user's Salesforce.com account. Desk.com is a cloud-based helpdesk system for interacting with customers and solving customer issues. Pardot is a B2B marketing automation tool that enables users to optimize deliverability rates, target emails to a specific audience, and test the success rate of email content. Chatter connects employees with appropriate files, data, and expert help to handle their work.The Salesforce1 platform brings together Salesforce.com, Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget into one family of cloud services. Salesforce.com provides companies with an interface for case management and task management, and a system to automatically route and escalate important events. Force.com is a platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to create multitenant add-on applications. Heroku is an app development platform.Salesforce was founded by Parker Harris and Marc Benioff in 1999 and is based in California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Non Profit
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Series A $14M–$86M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • NFWF — National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has been a driving force in national conservation.
  • Save The Bay — Save The Bay works to protect and restore San Francisco Bay for people and wildlife. In an era of climate change, growing populations, and environmental injustices it will take all of us to change the tide.
  • Wetlands International — Wetlands International is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$21M; Series A $1.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZEST — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Missuestin Dormitory
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Missuestin Dormitory is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Jo Hirao
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Jo Hirao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, College Recruiting
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Docquity — Exchange ideas with the best doctors in the region. Receive educational resources designed by well known and respected leaders. Attend virtual discussions
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
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The Creative Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

The Creative Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
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Keisuke Tomimatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Keisuke Tomimatsu is the Co-Founder at ABEJA. Keisuke Tomimatsu attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Big Data, Analytics
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.
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Smrti Lab
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $5.3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
  • Ion Protocol — Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others).
  • Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Series A $7.9M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
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IMO Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$10M; Angel $687k–$8.2M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTEye — NFTEye is an all-in-one platform that provides both deep analytics and professional trading suites. With NFTEye Analytics, customers can identify potential opportunities through hot mints, trending collections, bluechip index, and other valuable metrics & signals. NFTEye Trading Suites also provide services like real-time Sniper, SmartBidding, Smart Minting, etc., to help traders capture the potential opportunities. Our vision is to make NFT trading more intelligent for both professional and retail investors.
  • Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
  • Laifei Smart — Laifei Smart offers AI intelligent lawn mowing robots for global lawn care, and provides customers in this field with more standardized, precise and efficient intelligent solutions.
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$577M; Series B $5.5M–$385M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $920k–$25M; Series B $35M–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bunzz — Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures.
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
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Visionnaire Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Visionnaire Ventures is a global technology investment firm focused on visionary people and ideas that can become world-class, market-leading companies. Based in San Francisco, California, with unparalleled global access, the team seeks out and funds innovative businesses anywhere in the world that are leveraging technology to evolve and create newInternet and mobile experiences. With the ability to fund companies across all stages from seed to growth, Visionnaire Ventures is focused on key market segments where novel ideas have the ability to become sea changes for people everywhere.The Visionnaire Ventures team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives who have founded and operated global internet, game and online media companies, and thus are able to support entrepreneurs companies as they build globally successful companies.The team is currently seeking and funding companies active in diverse technology market segments including Commerce, Advertising, Mobile, Big Data, IoT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$22M; Series A $7M–$37M; Series B $23M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • LeapMind — LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.
  • Genies — Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.
  • Bigfoot Biomedical — Bigfoot is changing diabetes care for people with insulin-requiring diabetes through development of a fully comprehensive digital drug delivery platform experienced as a service.
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SPARX Innovation for the Future
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

SPARX Innovation for Future Co.,Ltd. was established in April 2020. We will build and verify temporary investment (investment intelligence) in new areas, centered on space, and make investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $22M–$87M; Series B $28M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
  • Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
  • Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$69M; Series A $2.4M–$137M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.7B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
  • Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.
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Primal Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
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Big Data Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 97 deals from 184 investors.

184
investors
in Japan Big Data startups
97
deals
in Japan Big Data startups
$28M
median round
in Japan Big Data startups
18%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage
90/10
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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