Top 25 Crowdfunding VC Funds & Investors in Japan (May 2026)
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Japan Finance
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $4.1M–$117M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $7.8M–$343M |
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Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Internet, Software | $10M–$206M |
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Kabu.com Securities
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, Consulting | $9.9M–$110M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Software | $5.9M–$302M |
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SBI FinTech Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Lending, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Debt Financing, Series A | Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services | $2.8M–$925M |
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GCI Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | FinTech, Marketplace, Crowdfunding | |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $500k–$165M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $1M–$62M |
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Shinsei Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Series C | Finance, Task Management, Internet | $14M–$343M |
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan, India | Seed, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $840k–$43M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Debt Financing, Series A | Internet, Information Services, FinTech | $34M–$1.5B |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $4.1M–$275M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $640k–$42M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$1.2B |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Internet, Medical | $925k–$69M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Information Technology, Software | $18M–$357M |
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Task Management | $21M–$41M |
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Vector
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content | $2.1M–$41M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Series B, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $11M–$330M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $12M–$357M |
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Mitsubishi Estate
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Series B, Series A | Real Estate, Internet, Information Technology | $7.6M–$137M |
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Salesforce Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $3.3M–$137M |
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Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $4.1M–$23M; Debt Financing $4.1M–$117M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
- Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
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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- 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.
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Series A $11M–$165M; Series B $10M–$206M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- 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.
It operates as an online securities company in Japan. It holds patents related to order placement, asset management, and financial products intermediary services
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Robot Fund — Robot Fund is a provider of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions for asset management businesses.
- Crowd Realty — Crowd Realty (Cloud Realty) is an investment-type crowdfunding marketplace specializing in real estate. With the age-changing city as the era, businesses and investors will be able to realize their ideas, offering an unprecedented investment place.
- xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $9.9M–$110M; Series A $24M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SmartRyde — October 5, 2021 Bloomberg featured CEO Sota Kimura's thoughts on the company's founding and future business development. March 19, 2021 What We Do to Protect Our Customer All staff are required to wear masks. Provision of alcohol-based disinfectants in
- Locus Blue — Locus Blue is a geospatial data analytics company providing an online point cloud processing platform to support industries. Locus Blue creates tools that use 3D data to improve efficiency and address societal issues, making people's lives easier by delivering cutting-edge technology in an easy-to-use format. ScanX, the company's product,is designed for productivity and makes point cloud data analysis easier through automation and the use of machine learning algorithms.
- 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.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.
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- 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.
SBI FinTech Fund
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- Industry: Lending, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Crowd Realty — Crowd Realty (Cloud Realty) is an investment-type crowdfunding marketplace specializing in real estate. With the age-changing city as the era, businesses and investors will be able to realize their ideas, offering an unprecedented investment place.
Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$343M; Debt Financing $12M–$925M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
- Varo Energy — VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in NorthWest Europe.
- ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India — AM/NS India is the leading integrated flat carbon steel producer in India
GCI Capital is a proprietary investment firm focused on financial technology, information technology, and education.
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- Industry: FinTech, Marketplace, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CROWD CREDIT — Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator.We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries.Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend toindividuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy.In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.
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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- 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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- 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
We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.
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- Industry: Finance, Task Management, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $32M–$343M; Series C $14M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.
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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- 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.
We have the largest domestic and global customer base of any Japanese bank, consisting of a network of 500 offices in Japan and 40 other countries. We apply our values of integrity and responsibility by contributing to the improvement of the economic and social infrastructure wherever we do business.Our portfolio includes 40 million retailbanking accounts and 500,000 corporate customers. The extensive network that this represents is itself a valuable component of our financial role as part of the global social infrastructure.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Services, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
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- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $34M–$48M; Debt Financing $400M–$1.5B
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
- xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
- Reliance Jio — Jio - Indias largest 4G network offers best prepaid & postpaid plans, JioFiber broadband plans & more. Get mobile apps for your daily entertainment with great offers.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
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- 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operatingenvironment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders.The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1M–$48M; Series B $7M–$44M; Debt Financing $96M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZEALS — ZEALS, a production company that attracts attention in system development of an interactive automatic communication tool "chatbot", which is widely used even for corporate user service. Its success also embodied "zeal" which means "enthusiasm" that got the name of the company, and fulfilled student entrepreneurshipfrom the great enthusiasm that "I want to support the revival of the Japanese industry with core technology in the IT field". They seem to be somewhat sailing, but they also taste various hardships and hardships. About ZEALS original step and future in terms of the young company's middle age in the mid 20's, the mission and development commitment imposed on himself.
- PayEm — PayEm helps finance teams get their job done and done quickly by offering control, transparency, and automation to company spending
- Ruiyun Cold Chain — It is a cold chain logistics service platform driven by domestic innovative technology.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Internet, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $21M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Latona — IoT/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence
- Elephantech — Elephantech is a startup company that aims to drastically innovate the technology for manufacturing electronic circuits, with the vision of achieving faster manufacturing at lower cost by leveraging printing technology.Electronic circuits are literally part of social infrastructures and are embedded everywhere in the world that we live in today.While the number and types of electronic devices being used by humans have been increasing dramatically, driven by advances in semiconductor and telecommunication technology, the technology for manufacturing electronic circuits has not seen any major innovation over the past 50 years.Conventional electronic circuits are manufactured through a process called photolithography, which involves applying metal all over the surface of a substrate and melting the metal off any unrequired areas. However, photolithography has the disadvantage of wasting large amounts of the materials used and driving up the production cost, in addition to being harmful to the environment.Elephantech’s suggested manufacturing method, which is a totally opposite approach to photolithography, involves printing metal only onto the required areas using inkjet printing and enlarging the printed metal by applying plating technology.This approach has enabled Elephantech to manufacture PWBs at significantly lower cost as the amounts of materials required and the number of processes have been reduced. In addition, as this is an on-demand manufacturing solution that does not require any initial cost, it is cost-effective especially for producing prototypes in small quantities, the cost of which can be reduced by at least 80%.We currently possess the best technology in the world for manufacturing PWBs using inkjet printers, the business of which is slated to expand rapidly going forward. Elephantech is committed to accelerating global manufacturing activities by leveraging such technology.
- TAILOR WORKS — TAILOR WORKS is a web platform for discussing issues, sharing information, and connecting with new people.
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Browse database — It's Free!Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $8.2M–$41M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Canly — Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- 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.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Series A $12M–$275M; Series B $33M–$357M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $522M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
- Orange — About Us With a mission of Creating a world where everyone enjoys manga since our founding in 2021 Orange has been developing various manga specialized deep l
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
A comprehensive real estate developer, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. boasts the leading position in the Japanese market, operating a spectrum of businesses in diverse fields related to real estate, including an office building business centered on the Marunouchi district in central Tokyo, a retail property business, a residential business, and hotelbusiness. The Company's area of operations is not confined to Japan; it includes the United States and the United Kingdom and extends to such Asian countries as China and Singapore.The strength of the Mitsubishi Estate Group lies in its comprehensive business structure, which encompasses Group members that seamlessly cover businesses ranging from development to leasing and property management. Looking at the real estate industry in countries overseas, in most places, the industry is divided into two main groups: developers and property managers. In contrast, the Mitsubishi Estate Group operates under a policy of maintaining ownership of the majority of the properties that it has developed. This enables the Group to pursue urban development with an eye to the future-a future of not only a decade or 50 years but as much as a hundred years from now.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Series A $21M–$137M; Series B $7.6M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CE Space — CE Space is a community of rental homes for IT experts and creators. They suggest hiring escort advisors on the side and offer digitalization and DX challenges for businesses and governments, which are particularly prevalent in rural areas. Their assistance results in chances to enhance wellbeing, a place where a second home is created, and a placewhere one's abilities are relevant in the city.
- Techtouch — Techtouch is a service that allows overlaying the explanation guidance on an existing web system by introducing a plug-in on the web browser side and js on the server-side.
- Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.
100% invested in enterprise cloud companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 396
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$43M; Series B $4.8M–$137M; Series C $15M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
- Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- Thunder — Thunder seasoned pros will help connect your processes, platforms and people, to get your business booming.
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