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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
20 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Software $700k–$206M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
18 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology $412k–$23M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
15 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Software $961k–$41M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
14 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Food and Beverage $2.1M–$41M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
14 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet $3.7M–$32M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
11 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
10 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Internet $412k–$66M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
9 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Finance $2.7M–$70M
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
9 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Apps, Content, FinTech $2.3M–$45M
Toru Shimada
Angel
7 Japan Seed, Angel Task Management, Manufacturing, Content $549k–$66M
Masao Ito
Angel
7 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $640k–$16M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
6 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
6 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
Noguchi Keito
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services $7.1M–$11M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
5 Japan Seed, Angel Education, Task Management, Recruiting $1.4M–$16M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Media and Entertainment $360k–$14M
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
5 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel SNS, Internet, Software $2.7M–$5.5M
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
5 Japan Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet $961k–$30M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
5 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment $5.8M–$18M
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
4 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$11M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Fashion, Recruiting $380k–$41M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Narita Shuzo
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content $2.4M–$18M
Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Fashion, Software $3.7M–$10M
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.7M
Yoshitsune Ido
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Robotics, Software
Mizuki Inoue
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel CRM, Finance, Security $4.1M–$44M
Taizo Son
Angel
3 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital $1.8M–$100M
Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music $8.9M–$11M
Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel SNS, Content, Finance $7.6M–$9.6M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Reservations, Software $2.7M–$27M
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.6M–$4.1M
Masaru Tange
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
Shota Horii
Angel
3 Japan Seed Information Technology, Internet, Art $3.7M–$5.5M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Advertising $8.9M–$66M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
3 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment $2.5M–$66M
Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment $8.2M–$44M
Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
3 Japan Angel, Seed CRM, Finance, Security $1.3M–$25M
Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing $1.2M–$62M
Hiroki Nakamura
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Web Design, Content $6.5M–$18M
Jun Ogawa
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Software, Education, Information Technology
Chihiro Asano
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Legal, FinTech
Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
3 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Social Media, Content, SNS
Chikako Morimoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology $9.3M–$18M
Robert Huang
Angel
3 Japan Series A Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
3 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media $13M–$32M
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
Makoto Takano
Angel
3 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $2.3M–$220M
Masahiko Inada
Angel
3 Japan Angel, Seed SNS, Content, Finance
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 18 investments in Japan Software startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Software startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • FiNANCiE — FiNANCiE is a social networking service.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 14 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 investments in Japan Software startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Software startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Software startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 9 investments in Japan Software startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$41M; Series A $2.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 7 investments in Japan Software startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$66M; Angel $549k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 7 investments in Japan Software startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • mikai — mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development.
  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Software startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Software startups

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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.
  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $9.3M–$11M; Angel $7.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Task Management, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $961k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • SPeak Corporation — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 5 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Yoshitsune Ido

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • 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.
  • Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
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Mizuki Inoue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kudan — Kudan has been providing proprietary Artificial Perception technologies based on SLAM to enable use cases with significant market potential and impact on our lives such as autonomous driving, robotics, AR/VR and smart cities
  • G NEXT — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • earlyworks — Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security.
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Taizo Son
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Taizo Son - Co-Founder @ VIVITA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$14M; Series A $1.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
  • 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.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $8.9M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $7.6M–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VCook
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Reservations, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $15M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • hackjpn — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
  • Launchable — Engineering teams ship 5x faster by using machine learning from Launchable
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Shota Horii
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Shota Horii

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Art
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flatt Security — Flatt Security is a cyber security company for all developers.
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • UNDEFINED Japan — UNDEFINED is a very young team with an average age of about 20 years.We develop products for teenagers who make the most of their youth by working closely with users.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Local, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $8.9M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Completed the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He developed the service of “Gunosy” while he was in graduate school. Established Gnosy in 2012 and appointed CEO. In 2013, he was appointed President and CEO. 2012 IPA Unexplored Super Creator. He also served as President of LayerX.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$66M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $8.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G NEXT — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $1.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G NEXT — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • earlyworks — Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security.
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$62M; Angel $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
  • H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
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Hiroki Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Design, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $6.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Jun Ogawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qurate Inc. (Japan) — Plan, create and manage all your content, across all your channels with all your teams. Try for free now.
  • Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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Chihiro Asano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Legal, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
  • bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
  • Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $9.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Robert Huang
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • EmbodyMe — Making the unimaginable, imaginable with AI
  • SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • SingulaNet Ltd — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • 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.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Anyplace — Rent move-in-ready apartments designed for productivity. Fully furnished, including a state-of-the-art home office setup. Available for short or long-term stays.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Masahiko Inada
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Software startups

Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Theoria — Theoria is a marketing team that brings together practical knowledge.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
  • Theoria Japan — Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.
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Software Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 96 deals from 131 investors.

131
investors
in Japan Software startups
96
deals
in Japan Software startups
$8.4M
median round
in Japan Software startups
4%
lead investors
lead at least one round
49%
Seed
most common funding stage

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