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Top 50 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023

Investor Social Media Japan investments
Incubate Fund 8
East Ventures 7
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 6
Mizuho Capital 6
Genesia Ventures 4
Daiwa Corporate Investment 4
TLM 3
Ceres 3
Recruit Strategic Partners 3
SMBC Venture Capital 3
Colopl Next 3
Suneight Investment 2
Future Venture Capital 2
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 2
Nissay Capital 2
Mistletoe 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
Venture United 2
Freebank 2
STRIVE 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 2
PE&HR 2
Akatsuki 2
MTG Ventures 2
Venture Labo Investment 2
Sansei Capital Investment 2
i-mobile 1
Gumi Ventures 1
Gaiax Global Marketing & Ventures 1
NOW Japan 1
Recruit Holdings 1
Femto Partners 1
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan 1
Money Forward Venture Partners 1
Mynavi 1
Suneight PS1 Investment 1
F Ventures 1
ORIX Group 1
MIRAISE 1
Chibagin Capital 1
Mizuho Bank 1
JA Mitsui Leasing 1
B Dash Ventures 1
Shima Capital 1
DeNA 1
DD Holdings Venture Capital 1
giftee 1
Orient Corporation 1
DOGAN beta 1
Global Brain Corporation 1

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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
  • CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
  • Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
  • EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

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
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Task Management, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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TLM
VC Fund

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

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.
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, South Korea

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.
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Social Media, Internet, Content
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India

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.
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Future Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar

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.
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aucfan Co.,Ltd.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, France

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.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
  • Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

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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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

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.
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Freebank
VC Fund · Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan

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.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, Indonesia

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.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Belgium

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.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

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.
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Akatsuki
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, 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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Investment focus

  • Content, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India, United States

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.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan

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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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, United Kingdom

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.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Software, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Belgium

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.
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i-mobile
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

i-mobile is the largest advertising network in Japan. It provides CPI and CPC and CPCV campaigns.For advertisers, publishers are all transparent and CPC price could be adjusted to each individual publisher depending on their performances. This enables them to leverage their ROI and manage ad campaigns efficiently.Latest cpcv campaign thatcalled "maio" are growing and growing up in market.maio is the video adnetwork for inapp that is largest network in Japan.For publishers, we offer 100% fill rate and SDK and Java script tag that fit varieties of different ad formats; iOS and Android apps.i-mobile covers all devices; mobile phones, desktops, tablets, and feature phones. The ad formats include native ads, video, display, and keeps on developing progressive ad formats.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, News, Solar
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Immersv — Immersv is a virtual reality discovery and advertising platform, founded by the team that created the largest app distribution platform on facebook and then again on ios and android.
  • Looop — Looop is a Japanese energy company that offers solar power generation services.
  • Strobolight — Strobolight provides consistent support such as production, construction and maintenance by staff with expertise to users who have trouble with garden.
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Gumi Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.

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Investment focus

  • Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
  • Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
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Gaiax Global Marketing & Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Gaiax Global Marketing & Ventures conducts research and makes investments in infocommunications companies.

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Investment focus

  • News, Computer, Hardware
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Photosynth — Photosynth is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Marketing, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • Bé-A Japan — Bé-A Japan producer and distributor of fashion accessories. They provide products that include underwear, sanitary napkins, interior goods, fashion accessories, health foods, and cosmetic products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
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Recruit Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China

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.
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Femto Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The fund will invest in early-stage venture companies in the Internet sector, which are engaged in platform businesses and financial services. The amount of per-company equity investment will be in the range of between ¥10 million ($.098 million) and ¥300 million ($2.95 million). The fund is also characterized by the practical support for growingcompanies that will be provided by Mr. Isozaki. Shinsei Bank will dispatch personnel to the fund in order to jointly assist Mr. Isozaki in order to source venture companies and maximize their corporate value.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Communities, Location Based Services
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SkymatiX — SkymatiX develop and provide remote sensing syng service for drone.
  • 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.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • QUADRAC — QUADRAC is a develop, manufacture, and sell telecommunication devices as well as payment servers for public transportation systems. The company aims to improve user convenience through a variety of payment methods, and to contribute to the realization of a cashless society. QUADRAC's thin-client type high-speed server "Q-CORE" isable to consolidate all of the fare calculation, payment, and security functions carried out by train station ticket gates and payment.
  • ANYCOLOR — ANYCOLOR is an entertainment start-up that provides creator support and licensing business, mainly for the support and operation of virtual rivers participating in the “Nijisanji Project”. Using the latest technology, we will shape our thoughts on society as a new era of cutting-edge, and provide a magical experience to the everyday lives of peoplearound the world.
  • GRA Japan — GRA is a Production and sales and export of agricultural products company.
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Women's, Information Technology, Customer Service
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Homula — Homula is an operator of an online wholesale platform for different types of brands enabling online shopping.
  • Timeleap — Timeleap is a startup IT company that provides remote customer service.
  • Sora Immediate Color — Sora Immediate Color connects nerds and helps women pursue their hobbies through an app.
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Mynavi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

  • Unstop — Unstop is an Early Talent Engagement & Hiring Platform with a community of ~4.5 Mn Students, Freshers, and 0-5 years Working Professionals. It enables companies to brand, source, engage, assess & hire talent #BeyondBoundaries from any college. In the process, student and early professionals get to explore opportunities and #GoBeyondResumes.Established in 2019 by Mr. Ankit Aggarwal as a blog called Dare2Compete, the idea was to give easy access to accurate information about corporate and student-organised competitions, challenges and festivals. 4 years on, Dare2Compete is now known as Unstop and is democratising hiring. A vision supported by strong pillars What was once a blog is now a thriving mutli-vertical ecosystem, which empowers students to showcase their skills, refine them; gain CV points, and eventually get recognized, rewarded, and hired in their dream companies. Unstop does this through - Learn, Practice, Mentorship, Compete, and Jobs.On one hand, students are empowered to enter the workforce and contribute to nation-building, on the other hand, companies get to source, engage, assess and hire these #Unstoppables through new-age hiring and engagement solutions. Leading brands such as Reliance, FedEx, Uber, Flipkart, Amazon, Kotak, PwC and others interact with students and early professionals at Unstop. First-of-its-kind super-app in the hiring spaceUnstop has over the years built solutions that revolutionises each phase of the hiring and engagement funnel. An organisation can complete their hiring from start to finish all on a single platform. Brand - No code custom microsite to engage and attract ~4.5 Mn students and early professionals across domains. Source - Job and internship listings bundled with a remote hiring platform. Engage - End-to-end execution of campus engagement solutions such as quiz, hackathons, hiring challenges, case study and innovation challenges. Assess - Coding, non-technical, domain specific and wide range of assessments to choose from. Hire - A remote hiring platform that allows access and an overview of the hiring funnel to the entire team, all on one platform. Our Moat: ~4.5 Mn community of students and professionals. Tech Platform can be created within days. But communities and behaviors like Whatsapp, Insta, LinkedIn, etc. takes ages.
  • Geekster — Geekster is a modern Edtech company in India that offers online Technical courses with certificates and complete placement assistance. Learn more.
  • 1Office — 1Office is an enterprise management software company that provides a toolkit for businesses in digital transformation solutions.
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Suneight PS1 Investment
VC Fund

Suneight PS1 Investment is an investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Content, Internet
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • LABOT — LABOT is a Japanese company that combines the power of finance and technology to create future education possibilities.
  • DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
  • microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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ORIX Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

ORIX is a dynamic and diversified enterprise offering a broad range of services. Since its founding in 1964, ORIX has developed a dynamic and diversified portfolio offering a broad range of services. ORIX is a leader in numerous domains including leasing, corporate finance, industrial/ICT equipment, environment and energy, automobile-related,real estate-related, private equity investment and concession, banking, and life insurance businesses.These businesses are inter-related and have their own strengths. By sharing of information and customer base of these diverse ranges of businesses, synergistic effects can be achieved.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Social Media, Energy
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • OurCrowd — Access exclusive VC angel investment deals in pre-vetted startup companies. Join now.
  • Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
  • Horizon Robotics — Horizon Robotics is a provider of energy-efficient computing solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) for smart vehicles, with the mission to make human life safer and better. As a pioneer to commercialize embedded passenger-vehicle ADAS and AD products in China, Horizon Robotics is committed to enhancingnext-generation smart driving experiences by integrating hardware and software, including low-power hardware computing solutions and open software development tools. By closely collaborating with a community of partners, Horizon Robotics offers products and services that enable an open ecosystem of smart vehicle transformation.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
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Chibagin Capital
VC Fund · Chiba, Chiba, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Chibagin Capital, part of Chiba Bank, is focused on consulting services, IPOs, and more.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Construction
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • Strobolight — Strobolight provides consistent support such as production, construction and maintenance by staff with expertise to users who have trouble with garden.
  • Algal Bio — Algal Bio is an food tech startup, was established in 2018 based upon 20 years of research results at the University of Tokyo.
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
  • Realty Income Corporation — Realty Income is a 45-year old, publicly traded real estate company dedicated to paying monthly dividends to its shareholders. The revenue to pay these dividends is generated from over 4,200 commercial properties in 49 states and Puerto Rico that we own under long-term leases, primarily with large commercial enterprises that operate multiplelocations. Our shares are listed under the ticker symbol "O" on the New York Stock Exchange - See more at: http://www.realtyincome.com/learn/about-us/index.shtml#sthash.O5EuQsAh.dpuf
  • ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India — AM/NS India is the leading integrated flat carbon steel producer in India
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JA Mitsui Leasing
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Agriculture, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • NearMe — NearMe's mission is to solve any inefficiencies in society by providing a platform that utilizes technology, and realize a sustainable and enjoyable society and community. NearMe. is a car sharing service where you can find people who want to go in the same direction by taxi.
  • DIGITAL GRID — Digital Grid is a retail supply contract or a power supply contract with a service provider using the digital grid platform.
  • B dot Medical — B dot Medical is creating an ultra-compact proton cancer therapy device to improve care for all and add to society through radiotherapy.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
  • microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 33 investments in the past 12 months

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
  • Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Education, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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

DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Ethereum, Education
  • Series A
  • Japan

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.
  • Knowledge Merchants Works — Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”.
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giftee
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Internet, CRM
  • Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
  • WAmazing — WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Orient Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Apps, Logistics, Information Services
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series D
  • Japan

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”.
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 54 investments in the past 12 months

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
  • Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
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