Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia (October 2023)
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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5 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $500k–$51M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $640k–$42M |
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Colopl Next
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce | $1M–$14M |
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Mynavi
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, India, Vietnam | Corporate Round, Seed | Software, Marketing, Internet | $710k–$137M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $7.8M–$343M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Content | $1.5M–$55M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $4.3M–$330M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Education, Task Management, Recruiting | $1.4M–$16M |
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YJ Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $961k–$137M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $4.1M–$275M |
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TLM
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Content, SNS | $480k–$21M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $500k–$165M |
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Vector
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content | $2.1M–$41M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Media and Entertainment, Software | $961k–$41M |
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SmartHub
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | Internet, SaaS, Software | $740k–$5M |
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aucfan Co.,Ltd.
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, France | Series A, Corporate Round | E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet | $1.4M–$41M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Information Technology | $412k–$23M |
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Eagles Fund
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Angel, Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet | $82k–$4.1M |
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Quest Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace | $50k–$7.7M |
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Stein Jakob Oeie
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Shopping | |
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Cento Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Finance, Internet | $580k–$21M |
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QF Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, Hong Kong, United States | Series A, Angel, Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $412k–$15M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $4.2M–$206M |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services | $7.1M–$11M |
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Fabio Cannavale
Angel
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2 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Information Technology, Software | $1.4M–$11M |
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27V (Twenty Seven Ventures)
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, EdTech, E-Learning | $615k–$2.7M |
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Innoangel Fund
VC Fund
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2 | China, Canada, Hong Kong | Angel, Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics | $300k–$10M |
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor | $7.6M–$8.7M |
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Kickstart Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Philippines, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $30k–$10M |
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Fresco Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Education, SaaS | $400k–$15M |
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Triniti Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China | Series A, Series B, Angel | Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Hardware | $1.4M–$275M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Food Delivery, Software, Service Industry | $8.4M–$151M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $6.8M–$112M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $100k–$29M |
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Cybernaut Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Series A, Angel, Series B | Information Technology, Education, Big Data | $412k–$59M |
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Z Ventures Group
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence | $137k–$7.3M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Content, Internet | $412k–$66M |
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Skystar Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $850k–$38M |
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Pegasus Tech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Indonesia, Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $250k–$27M |
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Sato Takahiro
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $4.1M–$30M |
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Binny Bansal
Angel
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2 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Apps | $480k–$18M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Fashion, Recruiting | $380k–$41M |
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JJ Chai
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property | |
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CAC CAPITAL
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Malaysia, Thailand | Series A, Seed | Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet | $1.3M–$41M |
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Oriental Fortune Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $412k–$100M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | SNS, Internet, Software | $2.7M–$5.5M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $12M–$357M |
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F Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources | $687k–$23M |
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BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $500k–$11M; Series A $3M–$28M; Series B $4.6M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- FoodMap — FoodMap is a startup with the goal of connecting customers with ethical farmers and food suppliers directly.
- Gushwork — Gushwork provides a platform for small and medium businesses to get on-demand access to cross-border, AI-augmented remote workforce. They are enabling a one-click process for businesses to delegate or automate their day to day mission-critical business workflows.
- StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
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.
Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $1.9M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Series A $7.8M–$130M; Series B $25M–$343M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
- Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
- LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1.5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
- UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
- Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology
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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- 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.
Tatsuo Sakamoto
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- Industry: Education, Task Management, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $961k–$69M; Series A $2.4M–$137M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.7B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
- Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $4.1M–$47M; Series A $12M–$275M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
- YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
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Browse database — It's Free!TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $480k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- nanameue, Inc. — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
- Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $500k–$45M; Series A $11M–$165M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.3B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
- CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
- Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $8.2M–$41M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Canly — Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $961k–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- FiNANCiE — FiNANCiE is a social networking service.
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $740k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
- Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
- EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$41M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
- Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
- nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $82k–$2.7M; Angel $412k–$1.4M; Series A $412k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cai Xiaomi — Cai Xiaobi provides Saas service for supply chain service in agri foods.
- Star Speed Store — Star Speed Store is a delivery robot provider. Star Speed Store provides hotels with delivery robots for delivering food, packages, and room service within eight minutes – a typical last-mile journey on the premises.
- Tianbing Technology — Tianbing Technology is an advanced aerospace propulsion system supplier and aerospace vehicle provider. Tianbing Technology independently develops the next-generation ambient temperature green HCP liquid propellant and minimalist aerospace propulsion system. As an upgraded product of traditional chemical propulsion system, it can meetcost-effective aerospace. Advance system supporting needs. The next-generation green HCP aerospace propulsion system, first tested by Tianbing Technology, can be used in the small-vehicle main power and launch vehicle upper-level propulsion system.
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $50k–$800k; Pre-Seed $50k–$54k; Series A $1.8M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
- Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
- Smoothly — Startup is a place where ideas are built. A place where we are always looking toward the future; new horizons in design and development are just ahead.
Stein Jakob Oeie is the Founder & Managing Director, Indonesia at Rocket Internet GmbH. Before joining Rocket Internet as Managing Director Indonesia, Stein worked for J.P. Morgan as Associate. Stein holds a Master's degree from the HEC School of Management / HEC Paris.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Hong Kong
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- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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- Talkpush — Talkpush is the leading conversational CRM for recruitment. Automate the repetitive stuff and focus on the right talent.
- Propseller — Sell, buy and rent property smarter with Propseller. Get premium service and full transparency for a fair commission. Sell for only 1%.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
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Browse database — It's Free!Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in under-invested emerging digital markets, primarily Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Since 2011, we have been backing digital companies that blend local insights with proven digital business models. We support entrepreneurs in their ambition to build companies thatare regional leaders in Southeast Asia.Cento is a Series A investor, committing on average US$1M initially, and up to US$4M over the lifetime of each investment.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $580k–$1.5M; Series A $1M–$4M; Series B $4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FastJobs — FastJobs is a fast and simple mobile platform for both job seekers and employers to fill non-executive and part-time jobs on the go. Fill your job vacancies FAST!
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Sirius — At Sirius we feel technology should be less complex and more accessible to everyone. Therefore we have developed our own middleware platform based on Gartner's Hybrid Integration Platform capability framework and following Mesh Application and Service Architecture. This enables large or fast-growing organizations to accelerate their digitalcapabilities, transformations and ecosystem development by providing cost-effective integration through our run-time platform as well as composable software solutions. There is no other platform that provides similar levels of flexibility and scalability in the same cost-effective manner.
QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
- Geography: China, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Angel $412k–$1.5M; Series A $1.4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
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- Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
- Yunchuang Shuan — Yunchuang Shuan focusing on "lightweight, one-click deployment, one-click compliance" security products offers integrated data security solutions for enterprises.
- Bangqi Biological — Bangqi Biological is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development, production, registration, quality, supply chain and sales of instruments and reagents for autoimmunity & allergy diagnosis.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Series A $12M–$151M; Series B $4.2M–$206M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
- K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $9.3M–$11M; Angel $7.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $615k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!
- Offered.ai — Use AI to find a new job with easy. We handle all the automation so you can focus on the interviewing.
- Out Of The Box Education — Out Of The Box is a complete learning solution for parents who want to help their child learn better. Get our patent pending classroom-in-a-box to transform any space into an early childhood education environment, and visit our learning platform for personalized curriculum.
Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
- Geography: China, Canada, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $412k–$10M; Angel $300k–$2.7M; Series A $1.4M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qingke Dynamics — Qingke Dynamics is a microgas turbine equipment manufacturer that focuses on emerging clean energy technology, steam turbines, auxiliary equipment sales, research and development
- Nano Semiconductor — Nano Semiconductor provides manufacturing, research, and development of semiconductor front-end defect detection equipment.
- Xungene Therapeutics — Xunjing Biotech creates RNA-targeting small molecule medicines. The company's goal is to create RNA-targeting small molecule therapeutics that target uncommon disorders and malignancies. It employs RNA structure detection and artificial intelligence technology with its own intellectual property rights to design, screen, and evaluate smallmolecule drugs, shorten the R&D cycle in a more efficient and smarter manner, improve development efficiency, and promote faster drug marketing.
After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $7.6M–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
- MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
- Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
We invest in early- to growth-stage start-ups who offer solutions to existing pain points and provide forward-looking innovations that will help shape the future we believe in.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Philippines, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $30k–$550k; Series A $4.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- SariSuki — SariSuki is a community selling platform that helps you become an online neighborhood grocery store.
- PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
- Transcelestial Technologies — Secure, last mile connectivity with fiber-like speeds using next gen Wireless Fiber Optics or Lasercomms, at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fiber.
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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- Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products at record speed and configured for every product line.
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Browse database — It's Free!Triniti Capital is a market-oriented venture capital firm dedicated to the investments of leading startups from early to growth stage. Triniti Capital RMB Fund was established in May 2015. Currently, the asset under management is approximately RMB500 million.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$14M; Series B $30M–$275M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fineset — Fineset is a Suzhou-based optical adhesive product developer. Fineset is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the research, development, production and sales of optical adhesive products.
- Glory Electronic — Glory Electronics is an electronic component packaging manufacturer, affiliated to Metaline Industrial Co., Ltd.,
- Donglan New Material — Donglan New Material is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly crosslinking agents.
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- 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.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Software, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $8.4M–$89M; Series A $27M–$151M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- Beatrust — BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration, and driving innovation. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$112M; Series A $6.8M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
- LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 363
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $600k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
As one of pioneering investment fund in China, Cybernaut (China) Investmentfocus on the Service sectors that serves Chinese middle class’s fast growing demands.? Cybernaut invests in early to growth stage private companies in financial services, health care, education, and specialty retail.? Cybernaut was founded by Mr. Min Zhu, who has a strongreputation and is well-known in the Silicon Valley and China for his extensive experience and outstanding achievements. Mr. Min Zhu was the founder and President of WebEx, which is the most powerful supplier of internet interactive services and internet conferencing in the world. Cybernaut works closely with top tier investment firms, such as NEA(New Enterprise Associates) and NLVC(Northern Light Venture Capital). NEA is one of America’s biggest venture capital firms specializing in start-ups and NLVC is a China concept venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage opportunities in technology enabled businesses. By now, Cybernaut has made many successful investment, such as Redbaby,lianlian and Focused Photonics Inc.? Cybernaut not only provides capital, but also operational experience, professional advice to their innovative Chinese entrepreneurs. They strive to help Chinese best entrepreneurs with their best ideas.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Education, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Angel $412k–$1.4M; Series A $1.4M–$4.1M; Series B $2.7M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sunmnet — Sunmnet specializes in providing smart education technology and solutions. It utilizes big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and IoT that enables clients to develop efficient education systems and infrastructure.
- Zenshine Pharma — Zenshine Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a focus on the development of small molecule drugs for cancer, viral infections, and autoimmune diseases.
- Liecaibao — Liecaibao is a golden-collar recruitment and job-seeking platform.
Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.
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- Industry: Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $687k–$5.5M; Angel $137k–$2.1M; Series A $1.4M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WorkAI — WorkAI provides human resources services with the help of artificial intelligence.
- Yibaotong — Provider of a SaaS platform that focuses on the integration between internet and financial industry. The company provides customized enterprise resource planning solutions for clients that directly integrates with their banks and insurance institutes. The company's platform offers supplier relations management, point redemption, enterpriseresource management, and customer relations management services, enabling businesses to enhance their operational efficiency.
- Deep Blue Aerospace — Deep Blue Aerospace is a commercial carrier rocket developer.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $850k–$38M; Series A $2.1M–$11M; Series B $6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Komunal — Komunal is a financial technology-based company that provides Peer-to-Peer Lending services in Indonesia which helps create relationships between potential SME and funders to support economic growth in Indonesia.
- Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a climate-tech startup that provides waste management and recycling services to optimise the waste value chain.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Indonesia, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Xanadu — Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and accessible to people everywhere. Sign up for Xanadu Cloud today to access hardware, software, applications, and educational resources!
- SmartHelio — SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort.
- DispatchHealth — DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile and virtual healthcare for people of all ages in the comfort of their own homes. DispatchHealt was founded in 2013 and was formerly known as True North Health Navigation. It aims to create an integrated, convenient, triage, and care delivery solution that extends the capabilities of the patient's careteam and provides quality care in the home while decreasing costs.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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- Industry: Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- RIZAP GROUP —
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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- 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
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- 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 .
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $480k–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
- Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
- Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
- Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It acts like a smart assistant to help you defy the odds. Sign up for early access!
CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.1M; Series A $1.5M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
- Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
- Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing investment in early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, Pre-IPO, mature, growth capital stage, mezzanine and new third board investments. The firm typically invests in financial services, telecommunication, new energy, consumer goods, medical treatmentand healthcare, life sciences, internet plus healthy lifestyle industry, logistics, energy technology, information technology, mobile innovation, media, movies and television, culture, pharmaceutical, biological medicine, renewable energy, retail, environmental protection business, consumption, new materials, new agriculture, advanced manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, culture, entertainment, and services. It seeks to invest in China focusing on Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, and Wuhu. The firm also invests in Pearl River Delta region, Yangtze River Delta region, and Circum-Bohai-Sea region. For Pearl River Delta, it covers Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing cities in China. For Yangtze River Delta, the firm covers Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Hefei, Wuhu, Ma’anshan, Tongling, Anqing, Chuzhou, Chizhou, and Xuancheng cities in China. For the Circum-Bohai-Sea region, it covers Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Qingdao, Dandong, Yingkou, Panjin, Fuxin, Huludao, Chaoyang, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Cangzhou, Langfang, Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Handan, Xingtai, Dongying, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, Rizhao, and Binzhou cities in China. The firm prefers to invest 20% of its portfolio to early stage, 40% to expansion stage, and 40% to Pre-IPO stage. Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. was formed in November 2007 and is based in Shenzhen, China with offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; and Wuhu, China.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $412k–$41M; Series A $1.4M–$27M; Series B $2.7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Microtreat — Microtreat specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, and sale of different high-end industrial application ultra-precision laser equipment, particularly equipment based on infrared, ultraviolet, green light, and ultra-short pulse technology, which is mostly utilized in the field of thin-film solar energy.
- Gene Cradle — Gene Cradle is a genetic company that develops gene therapy drugs to treat rare genetic diseases as well as chronic diseases.
- Pinfeng Medical — Pinfeng Medical is a platform firm that integrates independent research and development, manufacturing, marketing, and service to provide high-quality intelligent testing and precise diagnostic solutions to the local and international in vitro diagnostic industries.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Series A $12M–$275M; Series B $33M–$357M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $522M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
- Orange — About Us With a mission of Creating a world where everyone enjoys manga since our founding in 2021 Orange has been developing various manga specialized deep l
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $687k–$23M; Pre-Seed $687k–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- LABOT — LABOT is a Japanese company that combines the power of finance and technology to create future education possibilities.
- DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
- microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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