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Top 10 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023

A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023

Investor Digital Media Japan investments
Vector 2
Incubate Fund 1
Nissay Capital 1
ANRI 1
UNITED 1
SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan 1
NetAge 1
JIG-SAW 1
GREE 1
B Dash Ventures 1

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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan

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.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments 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

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

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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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

  • Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States

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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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments 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

  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

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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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Content, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Septeni Holdings started as a recruitment consulting company and become an internet advertising company in the year 2000. The company was established in October 1990 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Internet, Apps
  • Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sproot — Sproot engages in the media and entertainment business.
  • Hosty Japan — Hosty is a Real Estate Platform.
  • ORIGINAL LIFE — ORIGINAL LIFE is a wedding media tech company.Original Life is looking for friends to contribute to the evolution of the industry with consumer insights and technology !
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NetAge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

netage, inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and incubation investments. They invests in internet business. netage is located in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • News, Local, Big Data
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • JX Press — The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters
  • Oceans — Oceans Inc. was incorporated on September 16th, 2010 as an internet service company with the expressed goal of making the Internet more useful, more local, more here and now. Specialists from the fields of user interface, user experience, creative, programming and monetization gathered to make this possible. Currently, these development and serviceoperations professionals operate Eyeland(http://eyeland.in), a popular local communications platform.
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JIG-SAW
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan

JIG-SAW (San Jose) offers neqto, an all-in-one solution for IoT. As an all-in-one, fully managed solution for IoT, neqto provides: hardware, embedded and edge software, communication mechanisms, and cloud. Through neqto, easy and secure bidirectional communication for transmitting, collecting, and controlling things and systems via IoT is madepossible.With their core competencies in monitoring services, cloud technologies, mobile communication modules, embedded systems, and IoT equipment they hope to support and accelerate the automation and decentralization of the next generation of technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Marketing, Digital Media
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • DoubleL — Doublel is a general trading company of pop culture that develops Japanese manga, anime, and games internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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GREE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Gaming, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • AppBrew(Lips) — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

  • Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, India

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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