Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $500k–$165M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $640k–$42M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, China | Series B, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $11M–$330M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $7.8M–$343M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Content, Software | $343k–$73M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Media and Entertainment, Software | $961k–$41M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $640k–$16M |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, France, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Task Management, Software, Internet | $4.1M–$96M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Content | $1.5M–$55M |
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Japan, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $100k–$55M |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet | $3.2M–$48M |
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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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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Information Technology, Software | $18M–$357M |
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Colopl Next
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce | $1M–$14M |
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Content, Software, Medical | $2.6M–$82M |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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2 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Social Media, Content, SNS | |
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Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Social Media, Content, CRM | |
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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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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage | |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, SaaS | $737k–$151M |
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content | $961k–$70M |
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India | Series A, Series B | Social Media, Internet, Content | $3M–$45M |
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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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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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Shogo Kawada
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment | $360k–$14M |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series B, Seed | Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment | $8M–$1.1B |
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Koki Yabu
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Finance, Data Mining | $1.7M–$2.9M |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | $680k–$2.7M |
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Mistletoe
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Education | $700k–$73M |
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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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PE&HR
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Education, E-Learning | $380k–$21M |
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Freebank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing | |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1M–$69M |
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Christine Herron
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Personalization, Social Media | $1.3M–$21M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Internet, Medical | $925k–$69M |
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Akatsuki
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, United States | Seed, Corporate Round | Content, Media and Entertainment, Gaming | $1.5M–$247M |
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Venture United
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, Information Technology | $492k–$23M |
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Future Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care | $6.9M–$64M |
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Content, Social Media | $1.6M–$4.1M |
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Otani Hiroshi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Outsourcing, Social Media | |
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Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Internet | $1.4M–$6M |
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Orient Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series D | Apps, Logistics, Information Services | $2.6M–$16M |
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
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1 | Japan, India | Seed | Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS | |
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Adways
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software | $1M–$62M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$1.2B |
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Mynavi
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Vietnam | Corporate Round, Seed | Software, Marketing, Internet | $710k–$137M |
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Nishiki Takashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Content, Education, Social Media | |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Finance | $2.7M–$70M |
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Nagoya TV Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet | $3M–$69M |
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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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Series A $11M–$96M; Series B $12M–$330M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
- EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- 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.
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.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- 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.
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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- Industry: Task Management, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $4.1M–$19M; Series A $14M–$96M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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
Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $100k–$14M; Series A $3M–$55M; Series B $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$38M; Corporate Round $6.9M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 309
- Round size: Series A $18M–$165M; Series B $21M–$357M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$82M; Series B $23M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- ASOVIEW Inc. — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- 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
Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan
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- 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.
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.
Komura Fujio
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- 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.
MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.
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- Industry: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
- EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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Browse database — It's Free!STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Seed $737k–$32M; Series A $2M–$151M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
- Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
- Testsigma — Powerful open source test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up for free today.
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.
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- 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.
Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.
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- Industry: Social Media, Internet, Content
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
- atta — With over 3 million hotels, ryokans, vacation rentals and villas around the world, you can search and compare the best deals for your desired accommodation across various travel booking sites. atta makes it easy to find the best deals! With atta's AI, we calculate the probability that the price of hotel will drop in the future, and we present it to you on the app and Web. If you set "PriceAlert", you will receive notifications in your hands when you get a better deal on your room, so you can save money.
- Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- 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.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Series B $8M–$1.1B
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gift Pad — Gift Pad is a web catalog gift that allows recipients to choose their favorite products.
- READYFOR — READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.
- Terra Drone — Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $700k–$27M; Series A $2.1M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
- Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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 .
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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- Industry: Software, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $380k–$21M; Series A $8.9M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
- CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.
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- Industry: CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
- QD Laser, Inc. — Our light manipulation technology will leap forward in all industries and enrich people's lives.The world will evolve faster than ever through the power of lasers.
- Digital Cruise — Digital Cruise Provides cloud services for video distribution and digital signage.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$69M; Series A $1M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
- Habitto — SJML is a new financial services venture. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
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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- 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
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- 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.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Internet, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $925k–$55M; Series A $14M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
- Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.
Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.
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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$66M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$247M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Lootex — Lootex is a blockchain-based trading platform that offers services ranging from software integration to channel sales to its corporate clients. Lootex is located in Taipei City, Taipei.
- PlayVerse — PlayVerse is a technology-enabled entertainment company built on Web 3. PlayVerse plans to launch its own D2C brand, which will be focused on an interconnected universe of content and “play”. It aims to unlock the full potential of an IP with a 360-degree approach to content and merchandise. This merchandise would include both physical productssuch as toys as well as digital assets like avatars, emojis, and skins creating more interest among users.
- Shopkirana — Shopkirana is a B2B-commerce company that focuses on technology and supply chain innovation. It aims to encourage retailers to be competitive by delivering technology, operational expertise, and scale advantage.The company directly works with brands to boost them on the demand side and reach to masses with transparency and deep marketintelligence.Shopkirana was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Indore, India.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $492k–$21M; Series A $1.2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZEST — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$17M; Series A $16M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
- IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Otani Hiroshi is the Outside Director at aucfan Co.,Ltd.
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- Industry: Content, Outsourcing, Social Media
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Recruit Holdings is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in HR and recruitment services. Also, the company provides information services to help people discover opportunities for life. Their global network spans worldwide, including Asia, the U.S. and Europe.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$6M; Series B $3.3M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Presto — Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Our enterprise-grade touch, vision, and voice technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests.
- Mystifly — Mystifly is an anywhere-to-anywhere B2B global airfare marketplace with fares from 900+ airlines, multi-GDS and also 170+ LCCs, across 70+ points of sale countries across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The company focuses on applying the right mix of technology and inventive thought process to disrupt the air travel industry.
- SKALE Labs — SKALE is a 100% decentralized network that will bring the power of Ethereum to billions of users through a world of interconnected, limitless SKALE chains.
Orient Corporation is a consumer credit company that provides auto loans, credit cards, and direct cash loan services. The company was founded in 1954 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Apps, Logistics, Information Services
- Stage:Series A, Series D
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- New Revo — New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".
- Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.
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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- 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.
Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
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- Industry: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $30M–$38M; Series A $1M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operatingenvironment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders.The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1M–$48M; Series B $7M–$44M; Debt Financing $96M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZEALS — ZEALS, a production company that attracts attention in system development of an interactive automatic communication tool "chatbot", which is widely used even for corporate user service. Its success also embodied "zeal" which means "enthusiasm" that got the name of the company, and fulfilled student entrepreneurshipfrom the great enthusiasm that "I want to support the revival of the Japanese industry with core technology in the IT field". They seem to be somewhat sailing, but they also taste various hardships and hardships. About ZEALS original step and future in terms of the young company's middle age in the mid 20's, the mission and development commitment imposed on himself.
- PayEm — PayEm helps finance teams get their job done and done quickly by offering control, transparency, and automation to company spending
- Ruiyun Cold Chain — It is a cold chain logistics service platform driven by domestic innovative technology.
Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.
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- Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Kepple Accounting Office — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
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- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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- 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.
Nagoya TV Ventures is wholly owned by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, invests in everything from seed to later stage in companies focused on media, entertainment, video, and internet.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $3M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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- Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
- Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
- bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
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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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