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Top 45 Social Media Angel Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Content, Software $343k–$73M
Masao Ito
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $640k–$16M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Software $961k–$41M
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.7M
Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
2 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Social Media, Content, SNS
Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series B Social Media, Content, CRM
Christine Herron
Angel
2 United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Personalization, Social Media $1.3M–$21M
Koki Yabu
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Finance, Data Mining $1.7M–$2.9M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.6M–$4.1M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Internet $412k–$66M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment $360k–$14M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content $961k–$70M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Education, Task Management, Recruiting $1.4M–$16M
Kenji Yabuno
Angel
1 Japan Angel Art, Social Media, Product Design
Takashi Shibayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming
Cheng Tao
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Telecommunications, Content, Internet
Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Blockchain, Art, Travel $1.6M–$14M
Masatoshi Kumagai
Angel
1 Japan Angel Internet, E-Commerce, Employment
Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel
1 Japan, Germany Seed, Angel Shopping, Apps, Travel
Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
Yusuke Sato
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Food and Beverage $2.1M–$41M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology $412k–$23M
Takao Ozawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel News, E-Commerce, B2B
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment $5.8M–$18M
Oki Matsumoto
Angel
1 Japan, Taiwan, Australia Angel, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $2.1M–$19M
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media $13M–$32M
Sachiko Kuno
Angel
1 Japan Angel Art, Social Media, Museums and Historical Sites
Nishiki Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Angel Content, Education, Social Media
Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel
1 Japan, France, United States Seed, Angel Marketing, Finance, Advertising
Suzuki Yuto
Angel
1 Japan Series A SaaS, Content, Internet
Hikaru Kashida
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, E-Learning, Communities $1.6M–$9.6M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Finance $2.7M–$70M
Teruhide Sato
Angel
1 India, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $360k–$12M
Hayama Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Beauty, Medical
Masato Shibata
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Content, Social Media
Otani Hiroshi
Angel
1 Japan Series A Content, Outsourcing, Social Media
Koya Arikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Media and Entertainment, Content, SNS
Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
1 Japan, India Seed Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
Yusuke Ando
Angel
1 Japan Series A Content, Education, Social Media
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion $6.9M–$6.9M
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$11M
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $2.3M–$220M
Maneesh Arora
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps $260k–$1.7M
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$16M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mikai — mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development.
  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
  • Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
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Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Content, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Christine Herron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Christine Herron is an early-stage investor and diversity advocate, and co-leads the Intel Capital Diversity Fund while leading investments in early-stage companies. She is responsible for diversity investing across Intel Capital sectors, to support technology companies founded or run by women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ, or veterans. AtIntel, Christine's direct portfolio includes 500 Friends (ACQ: Merkle), betaworks, Brit Media, E la Carte, Funders Club, Goldbely, Jelli, Movable Ink, SmartZip, Storenvy (ACQ: OpenSky), Two Bit Circus, and Yummly (ACQ: WHR), and Intel Education Accelerator companies Comprendio, Immersed Games, Sutori, and Vidcode.Previously, Christine was an investor with seed stage venture fund First Round Capital, working with Better Finance, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction (ACQ: Sprinklr), Mint (ACQ: INTU), and Xobni (ACQ: YHOO). At Omidyar Network, she developed the Media and Web 2.0 practice strategy and led deals such as Common Sense Media and Socialtext.At Geocapital Partners, Christine focused on early Internet and network technology, leading Series A funding for AXON Networks (ACQ: 3COM), D-Vision (ACQ: ADSK), FocusVision (MBO), Netcom (IPO: NETC), and ViaGrafix (IPO: VIAX). Christine was also a founder or early employee at GiftWorks (ACQ: FrontStream), Mercury2, and NetObjects (IPO: NETC).Christine earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Columbia University. She is a founding advisor or mentor to 500 Startups, Bullpen Capital, and StartX, and serves on Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Board of Directors. She is active on @christine and a frequent speaker.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Personalization, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $10M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roominate — W77 merupakan situs slot online yang menyajikan link demo slot gartais provider pragmatic play tanpa deposit mudah dimenangkan
  • Soldsie — Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $1.7M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
  • SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.1M; Angel $4.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $687k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$70M; Series A $15M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kenji Yabuno
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kenji Yabuno is a Founder & CEO at Cookbiz Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Social Media, Product Design
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ARTLOGUE — ARTLOGUE is an arts tech company that innovates in the art industry through technology. It is also a social art media that works to solve social problems that make use of art. It was established on July 7, 2017.
  • Replace — Replace operates " STAND3.0" that matches the opening of stalls and idle spaces.
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
  • AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
  • 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.
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Cheng Tao
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Telecommunications, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • GIRASOL ENERGY — Girasol Energy is an IoT Platform provides innovative PLC technologies that enable wiser PV Plants.
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Art, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
  • Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
  • FRAME00 — FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform. Our product "Dev Protocol" is an open source middleware that fairly evaluates any activity and support sustainability with staking. More innovative way than donating your money.
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Masatoshi Kumagai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masatoshi Kumagai is working as an Executive Chairman at GMO Cloud.

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  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Employment
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GMO Internet — GMO Internet Group comprehensively develops Internet Infrastructure, Online Advertising & Media, Internet Finance, and Cryptoassets (Cryptocurrency) businesses. Under the corporate slogan
  • Crossborders Innovation — Crossborders Innovation develops human resource utilization tool.we use technology to accelerate and optimize the matching of human resources and projects, and to help individuals build their careers positively, sometimes change, and exert their potential even in times of rapid change. By doing so, we realize our vision of "more diverse,exciting and more enjoyable".
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Tsunezawa Kahoko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shopping, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menew — Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
  • Valise — Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.
  • Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
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Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

DescriptionYoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TENTIAL — With the power of AI, TENTIAL analyzes detailed purchasing behavior and attributes online and aim to deliver its customers' products based on their own information.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$41M; Angel $3.8M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • 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.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Takao Ozawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Takao is the former CEO of YJ Capital. He is also the President of Shopping Company at Yahoo Japan. Prior to Yahoo, he founded Bizseek, Inc. in 1999 which was acquired by Rakuten, Inc. in 2001. He joined Rakuten after the acquisition and was the Corporate Officer in charge of auctions. During his career in Rakuten, he was engaged in projects suchas formation of Rakuten Eagles. He left Rakuten in 2006 and founded Ozawa Research Institute where he enhanced business in areas such as investments to start-up companies and consulting. In 2011, he founded Crocos, Inc. which was sold to Yahoo Japan in 2012. As an angel investor, he invested/founded companies like nanapi, Appgrooves, STARFESTIVAL, Crocos, Netage and many others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $5.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Oki Matsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Oki Matsumoto began his career at Salomon Brothers Asia Limited in April 1987. He then joined Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd. in April 1990 and was appointed General Partner of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. in November 1994. As a General Partner, he was Co-Head of its Tokyo Branch’s FX & Fixed Income Business and was in charge of FX and fixedincome products and the related risk management. It was in April 1999 that Matsumoto jointly established (the former) Monex, Inc. with Sony Corporation. In August 2004, Matsumoto become the Representative Director and CEO of the Company (former name: Monex Beans Holdings, Inc.) upon its formation through management integration of Monex, Inc. and Nikko Beans Inc. He was named the Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of the Company in February 2011 and then assumed his current position in June 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Angel $2.1M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
  • WATASHIHA — WATASHIHA is a communication company.
  • SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $13M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EmbodyMe — Making the unimaginable, imaginable with AI
  • SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • SingulaNet Ltd — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Sachiko Kuno
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Sachiko Kuno - Co-Founder, President & CEO @ Halcyon Incubator

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Social Media, Museums and Historical Sites
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ARTLOGUE — ARTLOGUE is an arts tech company that innovates in the art industry through technology. It is also a social art media that works to solve social problems that make use of art. It was established on July 7, 2017.
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Nishiki Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kepple Accounting Office — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Finance, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Skimlinks — Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform. Its technology automatically monetizes product links in commerce-related content.
  • HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Suzuki Yuto - Representative Director and CEO @ JapanWork

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
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Teruhide Sato
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: India, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$1.7M; Series A $7M–$7M; Series B $5.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
  • InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
  • Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.
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Hayama Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Beauty, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
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Masato Shibata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masato Shibata

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
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Otani Hiroshi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Otani Hiroshi is the Outside Director at aucfan Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Outsourcing, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
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Koya Arikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Koya Arikawa is the Representative Director and Founder at Hotspring.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gracia Japan — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
  • Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
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Yusuke Ando
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

YUSUKE ANDO is a Outside Director at hachidori.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FLIGHTS — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC Japan — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Maneesh Arora
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $260k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
  • CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
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Social Media Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 50 deals from 63 investors.

63
investors
in Japan Social Media startups
50
deals
in Japan Social Media startups
$6.4M
median round
in Japan Social Media startups
10%
lead investors
lead at least one round
48%
Seed
most common funding stage

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