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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Drone Fund
VC Fund
15 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Drones, Robotics, Aerospace $6.9M–$206M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
ANRI
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $4.1M–$275M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.8M–$343M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Internet, Medical $925k–$69M
STRIVE
VC Fund
9 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $737k–$151M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
8 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Task Management, Software, Internet $4.1M–$96M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce $1M–$14M
East Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $640k–$42M
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
7 Japan, Singapore, Austria Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics $4.8M–$233M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, Taiwan, India Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce $840k–$43M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Content, Food and Beverage $3.4M–$300M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $730k–$56M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Belgium Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $4.2M–$206M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
6 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Food and Beverage $2.1M–$41M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
6 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Internet $412k–$66M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Software $700k–$206M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, China Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $11M–$330M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Content $1.5M–$55M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
5 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet $3.7M–$32M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
4 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$74M
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Internet of Things, Software, Energy $3.8M–$536M
Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Hardware, Internet of Things $1M–$34M
UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care $7.9M–$275M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $5.9M–$302M
W ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care $4.8M–$82M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
4 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology $412k–$23M
Fundinno
VC Fund
4 Japan, France Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding Information Technology, Content, Health Care $1.8M–$8.1M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$247M
TLM
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$21M
Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
4 Japan Seed, Series A Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology $12M–$100M
LINE Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Indonesia, Thailand Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $2.4M–$549M
PE&HR
VC Fund
4 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Education, E-Learning $380k–$21M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
3 Japan, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$14M
Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Taiwan, Finland Seed, Series A Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming $810k–$137M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $500k–$165M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Fashion, Recruiting $380k–$41M
Global Catalyst Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, China Series B, Series C, Series D Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Electronics $4.2M–$41M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $4.3M–$330M
Mirai Creation Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series B, Series A Robotics, Information Technology, Software $2.1M–$357M
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion $6.9M–$6.9M
SPARX Group
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $11M–$412M
D4V
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, Fashion $550k–$96M
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics $5M–$357M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Information Technology $380k–$34M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $6.8M–$112M
Leave a Nest
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Malaysia Seed, Corporate Round Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $214k–$34M
Glocalink
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A Health Care, Robotics, Task Management $687k–$8.3M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$62M
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Drone Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$18M; Series A $30M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
  • Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
  • Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Consumer 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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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Consumer startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$47M; Series A $12M–$275M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
  • YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
  • Carnot — LLM, Autonomous Agent
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Consumer 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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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $737k–$32M; Series A $2M–$151M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
  • Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
  • Testsigma — Powerful open source test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up for free today.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$19M; Series A $14M–$96M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $1.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
  • Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Consumer startups, 53 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 334
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$16M; Series A $2.1M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $4.8M–$41M; Series A $6M–$233M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ProfilePrint — ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality, helping agribusinesses to buy and sell better with its patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology.
  • Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $840k–$41M; Series A $1.6M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
  • microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Consumer startups

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$21M; Series A $5.5M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
  • Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
  • Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Consumer startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$48M; Series A $19M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • BABY JOB — BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$151M; Series B $4.2M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
  • OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 6 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$41M; Angel $3.8M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Consumer startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
  • UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
  • Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$25M; Series A $1.4M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
  • 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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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
  • ImaCreate — ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system.
  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $8.7M–$41M; Series A $7.9M–$275M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • 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.
  • Logomix Inc. — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $4.8M–$22M; Series A $36M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
  • Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
  • Office Pharmacy — Office pharmacy provides abundant evidence of Chinese herbal medicine, manages the medication schedule.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Fundinno
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Health Care
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Japan, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $2M–$8.1M; Product Crowdfunding $1.8M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
  • Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
  • Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer 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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TLM
VC Fund · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • nanameue, Inc. — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $12M–$55M; Series A $49M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
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LINE Ventures
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

LINE Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in games, internet advertising, and flexible investment fields.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$549M; Series B $10M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Mellia — Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements.
  • Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.
  • Sunday — Founded in Thailand in 2017, Sunday is the first full-stack InsurTech group adopting data models and technology to offer multiple insurance products and services across the entire customer journey. The company provides auto insurance, health insurance, and travel insurance.Sunday reinvents the entire insurance offering and experience to ensurethat customers' needs are met anytime, anywhere.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$21M; Series A $8.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Estonia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
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Gumi Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$11M; Series A $5.5M–$137M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
  • Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Global Catalyst Partners
VC Fund · Redwood Shores, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Global Catalyst Partners is an international, multistage, technology-oriented venture capital firm. Their partners have significant operating experience serving in large public companies as well as building entrepreneurial ventures into major public companies.It is GCP's view that all ventures must be global upon inception, optimizinginputs (manufacturing, technology sourcing, financing) and opportunities. Accordingly, GCP has a single fund and operates with a single team assisting each of its ventures globally. GCP has extensive strategic corporate relationships to help companies recruit, source technology, obtain services, and most importantly identify appropriate customers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Electronics
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Japan, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series B $7M–$38M; Series C $4.2M–$30M; Series D $20M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
  • Raksul — Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.
  • GROOVE X — GROOVE X is designing and developing a totally new, next-generation household robot that no one has seen before, that truly touches people's hearts and inspires real affection.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Mirai Creation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$91M; Series B $7.7M–$357M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • H3 Dynamics — Hydrogen Propulsion from Drones to Passenger Aircraft | Solutions for Digitized Maintenance, Emergency Services & Parcel Delivery
  • May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.
  • EneCoat Technologies — EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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SPARX Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$330M; Series B $36M–$412M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
  • UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$41M; Series A $7.3M–$96M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Panalyt — Panalyt bridges the People-Data Gap, enabling real-time, uniform access to relevant people data, reports and insights for CxOs, HR and business managers.People data, including employee interactions and connections is combined with business data, catalyzing new insights and intelligence.Predictive analytics moves the business from reactive toproactive, identifying correlations and points of intervention.The People Enhanced Data movement empowers businesses to leapfrog to data-driven HR decision making, eliminating bias and improving engagement, sales effectiveness, productivity and, as a result, business performance.“Panalyt is the only multi-source analytics platform in our study that also offers ONA to analyze digital collaboration and communication based on passive data. The company further integrates sales and business data, allowing line managers to identify and focus on areas critical to them.” - RedThread Research's People Analytics Tech 2020 Report
  • SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.1M; Angel $4.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$18M; Series A $5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • Bé-A Japan — Bé-A Japan producer and distributor of fashion accessories. They provide products that include underwear, sanitary napkins, interior goods, fashion accessories, health foods, and cosmetic products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer 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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Leave a Nest
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$14M; Corporate Round $6.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • uFraction8 — Multi-award-winning, innovative, microfluidics-based filter systems to provide bio-manufacturers with energy-efficient & ultra-scalable bioprocessing systems.
  • Robopreneur — Robopreneur brings the future by empowering robotics capabilities for use in human's environment to become human's partner and enhance sustainable lifestyles.
  • Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$30M; Series A $11M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
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Consumer Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 16 deals from 31 investors.

31
investors
in Japan Consumer startups
16
deals
in Japan Consumer startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Consumer startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
77/23
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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