# Top 50 Blockchain VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2026

## Ceres
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

## F Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

## Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Monex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

## MIRAISE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Health Care, Software

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

## Mizuho Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## DIMENSION
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence

DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.

## SBI Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

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

## GSR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

## Shima Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

## AMBITION Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Security, Blockchain

AMBITION is a real estate company that focuses on the rental management business of designer condominiums in the city center. As a Rueste Tech company, AMBITION actively introduces technology, leading the operational efficiency of the real estate industry.

## Bullet Group Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Finance, Security, Blockchain

Bullet Group is an AD Solution Business

## FE Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Security, Blockchain

FE Invest is an investment company in Tokyo, Japan.

## B Dash Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

## Old Fashion Research
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain

Old Fashion Research

## Emoote
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health

"Entertain the world. Resonate with creators" Emoote is a Web3 venture capital firm based in Singapore and Tokyo. Focuses on Entertainment, Media and Lifestyle.

## DWF Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

## Meteorite Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Blockchain, Marketplace

Measure & Predict with Meteorite Labs

## Nomura Research Institute
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

NRI-short for the Nomura Research Institute-is a class-leading business consultancy and technology solution firm headquartered in Tokyo. With 50 years of experience in systems and strategies, they have grown from boutique financial IT specialist to Japan's leading consulting and technology solution firm.Nomura Research Institute itsinception about 40 years ago, NRI has always been on the cutting edge. Whether by advising policy proposals and corporate strategies or promoting new system development and management, they have always strived to push the boundaries and explore new horizons. At NRI, they are dedicated to helping provide their clients with new business models in the 21st century.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## PE&HR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Education, E-Learning

PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.

## giftee
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Marketing, Internet, CRM

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

## Fundamental Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Software

A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.

## Japan Finance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

## Genesia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## SLD Entertainment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Ethereum, Marketing

SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE＆DINING" brand.

## Sansei Capital Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Koto, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Content, Software, Medical

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

## Giftee
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Content, Blockchain, Web Design

Giftee is a service that makes it simple to give gifts via the internet. They offer simple presents that may be sent right away along with sentiments like thank you, congrats, and excellent job. via line, twitter, email, etc., It is a method for creating redeemable eGifts that can be used in stores as well as for selling the created eGifts on thewebsite of your business.

## MTG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

## Find Satoshi Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Blockchain

Find Satoshi Lab is a growing web3 product development studio.

## SV FRONTIER
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Finance

SV FRONTIER was founded in October 2013 in Silicon Valley. It is a VC fund that provides strategic investors with rich functions such as screening, consulting, investing, business development, SV representative functions, and OJT assistance. It invests in SF/Silicon Valley and develops business in Japan. Targeting at Series A companies withstrong revenue traction.

## IDATEN Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Sales, Medical

IDATEN Ventures is a VC fund specializing in seed-stage and early-stage startups developing technologies and/or services which will support the following industries: manufacturing, construction, and logistics.

## Kakao Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.

## Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## DD Holdings Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Ethereum, Education

DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

## aucfan Co.,Ltd.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet

Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

## DFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Blockchain, B2B, B2C

DFund is a professional investment company.

## Gumi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming

Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.

## Sky9 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

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.

## IMO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech

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

## COSIMO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Blockchain, Sports

COSIMO Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm that focuses on early stage companies seeking to develop disruptive technology, primarily located in Ireland and the United Kingdom. COSIMO has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Our Team have over 100 years of combined entrepreneurial operating and investing experience. We aretechnology pioneers resolute in our mission of helping emerging entrepreneurs build legendary companies. Our mission is to help transform the most promising early stage, Irish and UK technology companies into global leaders that will dominate new market categories or disrupt existing ones. We partner with management teams to help them accelerate and grow into the US market.COSIMO is a team of entrepreneurs that have been at the forefront of value creation for early stage companies over the past 25 years. As technology pioneers, we have developed products used by 100’s of millions of users every day and created many firsts; from the first commercially available financial service on the Internet to the first push notification.

## XTech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Task Management

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

## TIS Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Mask Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

## LD Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

## Huobi Eco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Huobi Eco is an investment firm.

## Kyowa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Beauty, Finance, Computer

Kyowa provides health and beauty care products to customers.

## NOW Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Content, Marketing, Information Technology

Next One for the World.

## Japan Post Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.

## Fundinno
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, Health Care

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

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