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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $500k–$165M
Ceres
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet $3.2M–$48M
East Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $640k–$42M
D4V
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, Fashion $550k–$96M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.8M–$343M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
Money Forward
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1.6M–$21M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Internet, Medical $925k–$69M
Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $8.3M–$300M
PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology
Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Debt Financing, Series A Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services $2.8M–$925M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$247M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
2 Japan, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$14M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $4.1M–$275M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B Information Technology, Internet, Software $1.4M–$577M
KDDI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $3.2M–$920M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Internet $3M–$250M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Content, Food and Beverage $3.4M–$300M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$62M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $4.3M–$330M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Series C SNS, Content, Finance $10M–$165M
Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, India Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $100k–$55M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$74M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series B, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $11M–$330M
SoftBank Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Series B, Series A Mobile, Software, Advertising $1.2M–$30M
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Debt Financing, Series A Financial Services, Finance, Information Technology $5.1M–$1.1B
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $5.9M–$302M
DeNA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Education, Internet $1.2M–$96M
Okasan Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Human Resources, Content, Recruiting $33M–$89M
Remixpoint
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1M–$69M
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $920k–$118M
Japan Post Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, Internet
Mastercard
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Corporate Round FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $750k–$100M
Epic Angels
VC Fund
1 Singapore, India, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $200k–$4.5M
Saison Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $1.5M–$16M
GMO Pepabo
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed SNS, E-Commerce, Web Development $4.5M–$27M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Information Technology $380k–$34M
Cherubic Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Taiwan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $220k–$27M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $492k–$51M
DWF Labs
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1M–$3.5M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Task Management, Software, Internet $4.1M–$96M
GameWith
VC Fund
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SBI Group
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $2.9M–$137M
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
VC Fund
1 Japan, France, United States Seed, Series A Software, Education, SaaS
Mitsubishi Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Information Technology $3M–$2.7B
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $13M–$150M
Stone System
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Cryptocurrency
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Task Management $940k–$130M
Internet Initiative Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Payments 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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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$38M; Corporate Round $6.9M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Payments 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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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments 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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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments 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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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments 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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Money Forward
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $21M–$21M; Series A $1.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mekari — Transformasi bisnis Anda dengan software terintegrasi Mekari. Efisienkan proses bisnis & tingkatkan produktivitas karyawan Anda sekarang!
  • Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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Arbor Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Arbor Ventures is a visionary fintech-focused VC, partnering with innovators to shape a smarter future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series A $8.3M–$300M; Series B $8.5M–$70M; Series C $12M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
  • Ready — Get Ready BOSS for your CSP digital transformation. Cross-sell OTT services, subscriber self-service & more. Includes flexible, modular billing & API.
  • Pagos Solutions — Get real-time payment data detecting issues, trends, and opportunities plus intelligent payment solutions for optimizing payment performance.
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PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund
VC Fund · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund focuses on start-ups and projects that have machine intelligence, AI-related and robotics technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Airgram — Automatically record and transcribe meetings, take meeting notes, assign action items - all in Airgram. Works perfectly with Zoom, Google Meet & Teams.
  • Immotor — Immotor develops and sells portable and personal transport systems. Its products include Immotor GO, a portable motorized scooter; Immotor Super Battery, a power management source; and Immotor Cloud, a remote control and fleet management tool for Immotor GO. Daniel Huang founded Immotor on April 5, 2016. It has its headquarters in Shenzhen inChina.
  • Lingtan Intelligent Technology — Lingtan Intelligent Technology focuses on the development of innovative and sustainable distributed energy storage products and services, focusing on the research and development of energy storage system hardware, software and virtual power plant trading platforms, and is committed to providing factories, commercial buildings, charging stations,data Industrial and commercial markets such as hubs offer energy storage-based solutions.
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$577M; Series B $5.5M–$385M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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KDDI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $4.2M–$920M; Series B $3.2M–$618M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.7B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yogo Robot — Yogo Robot is a robotics company dedicated to developing automated delivery solutions. Yogo Robot offers an open, extensive, and versatile multi-robot ecological system that consists of smart delivery stations, robotic couriers, and Internet of Things devices. The system boosts efficiency in last-mile delivery and provides a more seamless userexperience than ever before. Yogo Robot is transforming how goods are transported and reimagining how humans and robots will coexist in the future by enabling the delivery industry with cutting-edge robotic technology at the terminal end.
  • WHYNOT Media — content franchise for the new generation
  • Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Series A $7.9M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$10M; Series C $20M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VAZ — VAZ is a venture company that transforms everyday small changes into a better society together with YouTuber and other influential creators.
  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
  • 91springboard — 91springboard is a co-working company that provides part-time office solutions for startups, business owners, and small to large companies. The company offers 24×7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.91springboard was founded in 2012 by Anand Vemuri, Pranay Gupta, Varun Chawla,and Deepak Sharma.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$14M; Series A $3M–$55M; Series B $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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SoftBank Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$14M; Series B $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Birdie — Transform thousands of user feedback into insights with our Feedback Analytics Platform and take faster product decisions
  • FTX US — FTX is an easy to use crypto exchange where you can buy, sell, and store Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies and digital assets such as NFTs
  • Energy Vault — Energy Vault creates gravity and kinetic energy-based, long-duration energy storage solutions that are transforming the world's approach to energy storage.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Series A $5.1M–$920M; Debt Financing $14M–$1.1B
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Boston Properties — Boston Properties, Inc. is an integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is an owner and developer of office properties in the United States. The Company’s properties are concentrated in five markets: Boston, New York, Princeton, San Francisco and Washington, DC. As of December 31, 2012, theCompany owned or had interests in 157 properties, totaling approximately 44.4 million net rentable square feet, including seven properties under construction totaling approximately 2.8 million net rentable square feet. In March 2012, the Company acquired 100 Federal Street in Boston, Massachusetts from an affiliate of Bank of America, N.A. On March 1, 2012, the Company acquired 453 Ravendale Drive. On October 4, 2012, the Company acquired Fountain Square. In June 2013, Sungate Fifth Avenue LLC and 767 LLC, acquired a 40% interest in the General Motors Building located in New York, from joint venture partners of Boston Properties Inc.
  • GuocoLand Limited — GuocoLand Limited ("GuocoLand"​ or "GLL"​), is a public company listed on the Singapore Exchange since 1978. The principal activity of GuocoLand Limited is that of an investment holding company. The principal business activities of its subsidiaries are property development, property investment, hotel operations, propertymanagement and activities relating thereto. As a premier regional property company, GLL is focused on achieving scalability, sustainability and growth in its core markets through its property development, investment and management businesses.
  • Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments 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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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Education, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$96M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
  • JustInCase — justInCase, Inc. is the first pure InsurTech insurance company started its business in July 2018 in Japan. justInCase was founded by experienced actuaries and data scientists. justInCase provides AI based smartphone insurance, API based accident insurance, P2P insurance, COVID-19 insurance, as well as AI based healthtech insurance.
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Okasan Capital Partners
VC Fund · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Okasan Capital Partners is Invest in early-stage venture companies with unique technologies, services, business models and high growth potential, and middle-rater stage companies with a view to listing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Content, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $33M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
  • CellAxia — drug discovery bio-venture aiming at practical application of advanced research such as cell therapy .
  • RoomClip — RoomClip is a photo-sharing service where users can find inspiration for their home and life.
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Remixpoint
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Remixpoint is an electric services company engaged in the used car sales business and retail electricity business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaia Japan — Gaia is a Financial based Company
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$69M; Series A $1M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
  • Habitto — SJML is a new financial services venture. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $920k–$25M; Series B $35M–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bunzz — Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures.
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • pafin — Cryptact is a technology company providing solutions and platforms utilizing blockchains, smart contracts and virtual currencies.
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Japan Post Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Japan Post Bank provides general banking services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.
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Mastercard
VC Fund · Purchase, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$34M; Corporate Round $750k–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
  • Paypa Plane — Future-focused payment systems that deliver benefits to banks, enterprises and payers. Working with existing systems to elevate legacy payment structures - Paypa Plane is ready to move the payment ecosystem forward.
  • Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
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Epic Angels
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Our focus is early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals. We invest in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. We are strong advocates of female leadership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CorgiAI — CorgiAI is an API-based end-to-end fraud detection + prevention product suite, built on a core of customizable and explainable AI
  • SpaceBasic Inc. — AI-driven campus automation, digital learning, and analytics platform from Space Basic helping you transform your University and institution digitally.
  • Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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Saison Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $10M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • HELIX — Gain access to curated alternative investment opportunities and make your crypto do more today. Helix is an accredited marketplace utilising blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.
  • Cryptoworth — Cryptoworth is a cryptocurrency solution and consultancy company working hard at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fin-tech industry. Cryptoworth was created to reduce the complexity of cryptocurrency adoption, usage, and management. Cryptoworth provides the best cryptocurrency and blockchainsolutions for use cases spanning from single users to large institutions.
  • Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.
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GMO Pepabo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

GMO Pepabo, Inc. established in 2003 as a web hosting service company. Since its foundation the company has focused on consumer-targeted Internet services, and today it comprises four business segments: Hosting which operates consumer domain registration and web hosting services, Ecommerce Support which provides ecommerce platform solutions,Customer to customer (C2C) marketplace for handmade products, and Community that facilitates communication among Internet users through blogging and media portal services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, E-Commerce, Web Development
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bunzz — Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures.
  • New Revo — New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".
  • Neworld — New World Co., Ltd. is a startup company from Fukuoka that aims to make the Japanese brand the No. 1 in the world. For everyone who loves Japan, we will take the leap forward with Japanese manufacturing companies, including the operation of the EC site "CRAFT STORE".
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments 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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Cherubic Ventures
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Angel $220k–$3M; Series A $1.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
  • Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$6.9M; Series A $1.4M–$16M; Series B $10M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Delivered Korea — Buy KPOP, Korean skincare, any products from Korean shopping sites. Use our free Korean address, consolidation, forwarding, personal shopper!
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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 22 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mars4 — Mars4 (MARS$) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the blockchain, that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications and earn passive income through revenue generating Mars NFT Land Plots. In this virtual world on Mars, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.
  • Velo Labs — Velo Labs is software company revolutionizing the old correspondent bank system by creating a global settlement network. We are empowering financial institutions with blockchain-based and compliance-friendly solutions to move money across borders.
  • Parex Market — Parex Market provides DAO ecosystem that includes a range of solutions.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments 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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GameWith
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

GameWith is an online game information community that provides its users with hints and tips for smartphone games. Its initial focus is providing strategy guides for the rapidly expanding (and updating) mobile gaming market. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Game Server Services — Game Server Services is an asset, game keeps important player data such as billing currency and character level.
  • GamingMonk — GamingMonk is an eSports gaming company based out of New Delhi, India. eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console & Mobile. They currently have 2 verticals - Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Portal.Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 8 cities so far with an expansionplan of covering 16 cities by next year.Online eSports Portal was launched in Aug 2017 with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India.With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, they at GamingMonk, have strived to create a community for gamers.A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and gamers always know where to find an extra life.
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SBI Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$137M; Series B $2.9M–$137M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • banco — BANCO offers fintech, digital banking, supply chain finance, and corporate financing services.
  • Zodia Custody — Zodia is an institutional crypto custodian enabling global institutions, corporations, and investors to realize the potential of the digital asset future.
  • My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

NTT Group's website. Learn about NTT Group, Press Release, Business, Investor Relations, R&D, CSR, Disaster Countermeasures, Environmental Activities, Procurement, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Profile, Careers information.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VACAN — VACAN is a vacant seat information platform such as restaurants and cafes and parking lots.
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • Laugh & Peace_Mother — Laugh & Peace_Mother provides production and distribution of educational and other content/applications.
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Mitsubishi Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations asits diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Series A $5.2M–$549M; Corporate Round $3M–$2.7B
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
  • KoBold Metals — KoBold is a mineral exploration company driving the clean energy future by accelerating the discovery of critical metals.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups, 41 in the past 12 months

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 534
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$100M; Series C $14M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Iberdrola — IBERDROLA, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, switching, and distribution of electricity and gas worldwide. It generates electricity primarily through nuclear, fossil-fuel, and hydroelectric power. The company also engages in retail of electricity under the tariff systems. In addition, IBERDROLA generateselectricity from renewable energy sources, as well as engages in the gas storage, and electricity and gas supply activities. Further, it provides telecommunications services, as well as engineering, consulting, and information technology services. Additionally, the company engages in real estate and other related activities. As of September 30, 2008, it distributed electricity to 10 million customers in Spain, 3.5 million customers in the United Kingdom, and 9 million customers in Latin America.
  • Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.
  • ideaForge — ideaForge develops and produces Unmanned Aerial Systems that offer unmatched usability due to its user-centric innovations and design. With a focus on sustainable use in operation, it ensures the highest quality and performance of its products. It is in constant pursuit of creating products that inspire a new vision.Founded in 2007 by IIT Mumbaialumni Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh, Vipul Joshi, and Ashish Bhat, IdeaForge is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
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Stone System
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Stone System provides web application development, system consulting, and server administration services. The company was founded in 1990 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fressets — Fressets is a Startup to challenge the creation of social infrastructure using blockchain technology.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $940k–$16M; Series A $5M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Pictoria — Pictoria produce total events for entertainment.They handle a wide range of events, from talk events to events using advanced technologies such as 3D motion capture.
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Internet Initiative Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Payments startups

Internet Initiative Japan is an Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions provider. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and contentdesign. Moreover, the company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ was listed on NASDAQ in 1999 and on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
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Payments VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 56 deals from 101 investors.

101
investors
in Japan Payments startups
56
deals
in Japan Payments startups
$46M
median round
in Japan Payments startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Series A
most common funding stage

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