Top 50 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023
Top 50 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023
| Investor | Software Japan investments |
|---|---|
| East Ventures | 59 |
| ANRI | 47 |
| Mizuho Capital | 46 |
| Incubate Fund | 45 |
| DNX Ventures | 39 |
| SMBC Venture Capital | 38 |
| Archetype Ventures | 34 |
| Global Brain Corporation | 32 |
| Genesia Ventures | 31 |
| ANOBAKA | 30 |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Capital | 29 |
| YJ Capital | 27 |
| Monex Ventures | 26 |
| DBJ Capital | 26 |
| STRIVE | 23 |
| Daiwa Corporate Investment | 21 |
| Coral Capital | 19 |
| MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) | 18 |
| BEENEXT | 18 |
| Nissay Capital | 17 |
| D4V | 16 |
| F Ventures | 16 |
| Real Tech Japan | 16 |
| Japan Finance | 15 |
| Vector | 15 |
| SBI Investment | 15 |
| Drone Fund | 14 |
| Globis Capital Partners | 14 |
| Nippon Venture Capital | 14 |
| VOYAGE VENTURES | 14 |
| Future Venture Capital | 13 |
| MIRAISE | 13 |
| Colopl Next | 12 |
| TLM | 12 |
| Mobile Internet Capital | 12 |
| KDDI | 12 |
| NOW Japan | 11 |
| B Dash Ventures | 11 |
| UB Ventures | 11 |
| ITOCHU Technology Ventures | 11 |
| Primal Capital | 10 |
| UTokyo Innovation Platform | 10 |
| Venture United | 10 |
| GMO VenturePartners | 10 |
| iSGS Investment Works | 10 |
| KSK Angel Fund | 9 |
| Ceres | 9 |
| Energy & Environment Investment | 9 |
| Shinsei Corporate Investment | 9 |
| 500 Startups Japan | 9 |
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East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- 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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
- YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
- Carnot — LLM, Autonomous Agent
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cofactr — Whether managing shortages today or planning for next year, Cofactr is the place to get all the parts you need, when you need them.
- Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
- Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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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- 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.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Spacely — Spacely is a cloud software that allows you to easily create, edit and manage VR web contents using photos taken with a 360 degree camera. From April 1, 2018 the service name has been changed from 3D Stylee to Spacely.
- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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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- 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.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.
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- 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
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
- Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- 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.
YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States, Indonesia
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- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
- Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
- pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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- Software, Internet, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
- Cellusion — Cellular technology breakthrough for clear vision of the future.
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
- TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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- Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
- LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- FoodMap — FoodMap is a startup with the goal of connecting customers with ethical farmers and food suppliers directly.
- Gushwork — Gushwork provides a platform for small and medium businesses to get on-demand access to cross-border, AI-augmented remote workforce. They are enabling a one-click process for businesses to delegate or automate their day to day mission-critical business workflows.
- StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- 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.
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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- Financial Services, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Panalyt — Panalyt bridges the People-Data Gap, enabling real-time, uniform access to relevant people data, reports and insights for CxOs, HR and business managers.People data, including employee interactions and connections is combined with business data, catalyzing new insights and intelligence.Predictive analytics moves the business from reactive toproactive, identifying correlations and points of intervention.The People Enhanced Data movement empowers businesses to leapfrog to data-driven HR decision making, eliminating bias and improving engagement, sales effectiveness, productivity and, as a result, business performance.“Panalyt is the only multi-source analytics platform in our study that also offers ONA to analyze digital collaboration and communication based on passive data. The company further integrates sales and business data, allowing line managers to identify and focus on areas critical to them.” - RedThread Research's People Analytics Tech 2020 Report
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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- 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.
Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, Singapore, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- ProfilePrint — ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality, helping agribusinesses to buy and sell better with its patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology.
- Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- Japan, India, Hong Kong
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- Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
- Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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- Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Content
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- Canly — Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
- Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.
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- Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
- Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
- Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Israel
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- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
- Orange — About Us With a mission of Creating a world where everyone enjoys manga since our founding in 2021 Orange has been developing various manga specialized deep l
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States
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- Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
- LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Software, Internet, Content
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, China, Germany
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- pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
- ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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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- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Myanmar
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- 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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- Apps, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan, Estonia, United States
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- 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
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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- Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, South Korea
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- 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.
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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- Information Technology, Content, SNS
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- 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.
Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States, China
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- MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, South Korea
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- Yogo Robot — Yogo Robot is a robotics company dedicated to developing automated delivery solutions. Yogo Robot offers an open, extensive, and versatile multi-robot ecological system that consists of smart delivery stations, robotic couriers, and Internet of Things devices. The system boosts efficiency in last-mile delivery and provides a more seamless userexperience than ever before. Yogo Robot is transforming how goods are transported and reimagining how humans and robots will coexist in the future by enabling the delivery industry with cutting-edge robotic technology at the terminal end.
- WHYNOT Media — content franchise for the new generation
- Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
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- Content, Marketing, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- 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.
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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- Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, India
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- 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.
UB Ventures is venture capital firm.
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- Information Technology, Software, Task Management
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
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- Monoxer — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
- Commune — Commmune is a co-creation marketing tool that enables the acquisition and use of user insights around the user community. The company's service "commmune" provides a community environment to improve user engagement for companies that provide services using SaaS and subscription models with the goal of reducing churn rates. By usingthe service, companies can centrally communicate their information and interact with users. In addition, companies that issue member accounts can also implement single sign-on (SSO) by linking the service with their member database. Set incentives according to conditions, such as giving a certain point when a core user posts useful information to other users, or giving a certain point when a light user shares information It is possible to create an environment in which PDCA can be rotated at a high speed by activating communication between companies and users and analyzing them alone or in conjunction with MA tools and CRM tools.
- Imaginostics — Our technology, QUTE-CE MRI (pronounced “cute-see”), quantifies vascular structure, function, and leakage anywhere in the body. This breakthrough heralds a new understanding of the vascular pathophysiology of disease while providing clinical scientists new tools for drug development and evaluation of therapeutics. After raising an initial $1M seedround and validating its technology in pre-clinical trials, Imaginostics now seeks to raise $3M to conduct clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital and begin commercialization. Despite more than 40M MRI scans performed each year in the US, 70% of cancers are detected late and no neurodegenerative disease is detected early. Conventional gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) MRI scans lack the quantitative precision necessary for measuring biomarkers that can predict future onset of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other forms of cognitive impairment. In preclinical studies, our patented biomarkers were able to map blood-brain barrier leakage due to mild head impact using less than half the number of subjects required by conventional DCE-MRI, with a significant improvement in the clustering of the control and experimental groups into non-overlapping segments seen in the results.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Belgium
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- Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
- K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf
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- Software, Internet, Task Management
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Spain, Switzerland
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- Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.
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- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- 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.
- Logomix Inc. — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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.
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Hong Kong
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- BABY JOB — BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
- Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Kenya
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- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
- Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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- Internet of Things, Software, Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Germany
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- 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.
- Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
- Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, Belgium
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- 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.
- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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- Internet, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
- Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
- Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
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