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Top 40 Sports Angel Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
2 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology $412k–$23M
Makoto Takano
Angel
2 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $2.3M–$220M
Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel SNS, Sports, Content
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Software $961k–$41M
Kevin Chou
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Gaming, Video Games, eSports $1.3M–$66M
Kevin Lin
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games $150k–$20M
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Apps, Content, FinTech $2.3M–$45M
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness $6.9M–$41M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Finance $2.7M–$70M
Dai Tamesue
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Sports, Health Care
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Internet $412k–$66M
Ishikawa Ryo
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Sports, Internet
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $4.1M–$30M
Narita Shuzo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content $2.4M–$18M
Eiko Hashiba
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Health Care
Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Health Care, Travel, Content $5.5M–$8.2M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Advertising $8.9M–$66M
Akihiro Nishino
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, SNS, Audio $27M–$66M
Minoru Moriya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet $5.5M–$14M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
Siqi Chen
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $500k–$66M
Haruki Satomi
Angel
1 Japan Angel Sports, Fantasy Sports, Media and Entertainment
Kamata Tomihisa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Fitness, Medical, Genetics
Kent Wakeford
Angel
1 United States, Japan Seed Internet, Sports, E-Commerce $1.4M–$66M
Takashi Sato
Angel
1 Japan, United States Angel Fitness, Computer, Software
Yuki Sato
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Internet, Recruiting
Gaku Nakamura
Angel
1 Japan Pre-Seed Sports, Education, Information Technology
Kentaro Uryu
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Sports, Internet
Naoki Yamada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Sports
Shoji Kodama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series B Real Estate, Internet, Construction $14M–$14M
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
Seiji Kurokoshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Sports, Internet, Education
Kei Nishikiori
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Internet
Murakami Hiroki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Internet
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$11M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Marketing, Media and Entertainment $2.5M–$66M
Taku Namura
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Internet
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Makoto Takano
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups

Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • 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.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • SAURUS JAPAN
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Kevin Chou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups

Kevin Chou is Managing Partner of the SuperLayer web3 venture studio and co-founder of Rally, a crypto platform that allows creators and artists to launch their own digital currency and to build sustainable, independent economies with their fan communities. Kevin currently serves as the Chairman of Forte, a new blockchain whose mission is to builda more collaborative future in gaming by realigning the economic relationship between players and developers. He is also Chairman of Gen.G, a new esports enterprise bridging Asia and North America. Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, a top developer of mobile games. Kevin led the company from business plan founding to over $400M in annual revenue serving over 500 million players. Kabam developed leading partnerships with Marvel, Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Lord of the Rings, and Hunger Games. Kabam was profitable from 2012 until the sale of the company's studios to Netmarble, 21st Century Fox, and GAEA, which in total generated nearly $1 billion in value. He's been honored by Fortune in 40 under 40, CNN in Smartest People in Tech, and Business Insider's Silicon Valley Top 100. Kevin Chou graduated magna cum laude from the UC Berkeley undergraduate Haas School of Business program. He serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
  • Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Dai Tamesue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • 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.
  • vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • SAMURAI Security
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Ishikawa Ryo
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sports startups

Ishikawa Ryo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sports 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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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports 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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Eiko Hashiba
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports 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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Akihiro Nishino
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Akihiro Nishino is a Japanese comedian.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Audio
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $27M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • alu Japan — alu is providing service to enjoy more manga.
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Minoru Moriya
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • 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.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports 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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Siqi Chen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
  • Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.
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Haruki Satomi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Haruki Satomi - Chairman of the Board and CEO @ SEGA Games

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Kamata Tomihisa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Medical, Genetics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
  • Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
  • MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
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Kent Wakeford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Kent Wakeford is Chief Operating Officer for Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Kent joined Kabam full-time in February 2011 after serving as a company advisor since February 2009. He has been instrumental in shaping the company’s game portfolio, adding talented development teams, and navigating all legal areas for the company.Currently, he is responsible for the legal department, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and governance, partnerships for third party game development, and licensed intellectual property.Kent has sourced and structured Kabam’s relationships with Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for The Hobbit mobile and web games, and NBCUniversal for the Fast & Furious 6 mobile game. Kent facilitated Kabam’s acquisitions of Gravity Bear, Fearless Studios, WonderHill, Wild Shadow Studios, Balanced Worlds, Exploding Barrel Games, Phoenix Age, TapZen and Magic Pixel Games. In addition, he assisted in raising more than $100 million in capital investments for Kabam from venture and strategic investors including Google Ventures, SK Telecom, Pinnacle Ventures, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Kent also played an integral role in Alibaba’s $120 million investment in Kabam, which increased the company’s valuation to more than $1 billion.Kent began his digital career at Netscape and spent more than five years at AOL as a Vice President, facilitating more than 250 partnerships across AOL web properties as well as Time Inc., Turner, and Warner Bros. Prior to joining Kabam, he was SVP at AddThis social sharing platform and co-founded the media valuation and ad verification company Integral Ad Science. Kent began his career as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers representing movie studios, record labels, and media companies.Kent graduated order of the coif from University of Southern California Law School, achieving awards for highest scholarship and excellence in the field of entertainment law, and participated on Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Sports, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Brainbase — Unified Licensing Management Software. Track and visualize brand performance, contracts, and royalties. Manage approvals, track deals, and spot contract violations.
  • tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.
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Takashi Sato
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Takashi Sato is a Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RIZAP — RIZAP is a chain of a private gym that offers fitness training and consulting services.
  • Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.
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Yuki Sato
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
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Kentaro Uryu
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Kentaro Uryu - Legal advisor @ Adot

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Adot
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • SISI
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Naoki Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Naoki Yamada

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
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Shoji Kodama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Construction
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
  • Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
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Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

DescriptionYoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezay
  • CURBON
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Kei Nishikiori
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Kei Nishikiori

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Murakami Hiroki
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Murakami Hiroki

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports 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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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sports 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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Taku Namura
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sports startups

Taku Namura

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Sports Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 12 deals from 36 investors.

36
investors
in Japan Sports startups
12
deals
in Japan Sports startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Sports startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Angel
most common funding stage

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