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Top 10 Fitness Angel Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Fitness startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Fitness startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness $6.9M–$41M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Kenji Endo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, Internet
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Apps, Content, FinTech $2.3M–$45M
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $2.3M–$220M
Eiko Hashiba
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Health Care
Shoji Kodama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series B Real Estate, Internet, Construction $14M–$14M
Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Health Care, Travel, Content $5.5M–$8.2M
Minoru Moriya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet $5.5M–$14M
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness 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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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Kenji Endo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$41M; Series A $2.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Sports, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $32M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Eiko Hashiba
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
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Shoji Kodama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Construction
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
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Minoru Moriya
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • 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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Fitness Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 12 deals from 20 investors.

20
investors
in Japan Fitness startups
12
deals
in Japan Fitness startups
$10M
median round
in Japan Fitness startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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