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Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Sustainability startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Sustainability startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
4 Japan, Singapore, Austria Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics $4.8M–$233M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $500k–$165M
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Internet of Things, Software, Energy $3.8M–$536M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$247M
Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Marketing $360k–$16M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series A, Series B Information Technology, Internet, Software $1.4M–$577M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Content, Food and Beverage $3.4M–$300M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $5.9M–$302M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
2 Japan, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$14M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $730k–$56M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $2M–$275M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Information Technology $380k–$34M
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
2 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel SNS, Internet, Software $2.7M–$5.5M
DBJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Australia Series A, Seed Software, Internet, Biotechnology $1.5M–$151M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $4.1M–$275M
OPT Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Software, Content, Task Management $1.5M–$86M
East Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $640k–$42M
Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting $983k–$2M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
Shintaro Tabata
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
Yosemite
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed Legal, Water, AgTech $5.5M–$7.7M
Daisaku Harada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Future Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care $6.9M–$64M
Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
2 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.8M–$343M
Toppan Printing
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Corporate Round, Series B Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $1.9M–$536M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Education $700k–$73M
PE&HR
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Education, E-Learning $380k–$21M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Series C SNS, Content, Finance $10M–$165M
Hiromi Watase
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Rental, E-Commerce
elDesign
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Energy, CleanTech, Wholesale
CCBT Private Equity
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Midea Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
TD Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Retail, Parking, Automotive
Septeni
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SNS, Content, Fashion
China Science and Technology Innovation
VC Fund
1 China Seed
Chushin Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Retail, Travel, Home Decor
Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Fashion, Software $3.7M–$10M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Content, Software $343k–$73M
EPCO
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Energy, Smart Home, Renewable Energy
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Content $1.5M–$55M
Zhuhai Huafa Group
VC Fund
1 China, Japan Series A, Series B Solar, Energy, Hardware
Gaiax
VC Fund
1 Japan, Italy Seed, Angel Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy $4.1M–$7.7M
Development Bank of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Tanzania, Singapore Series A, Series D Manufacturing, Robotics, Health Care $7.7M–$1.2B
GMO Pepabo
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed SNS, E-Commerce, Web Development $4.5M–$27M
ABC Dream Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Series A, Series B Social Media, Information Technology, Content $3.7M–$41M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $492k–$51M
Yoshitsune Ido
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Robotics, Software
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $4.8M–$41M; Series A $6M–$233M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$45M; Series A $11M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
  • CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
  • Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet of Things, Software, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $3.8M–$206M; Series B $7.6M–$536M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $137M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 54 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$165M; Series B $10M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
  • Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blusink — Blusink is an ocean-based carbon removals company.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
  • MORPHEUS — Development of Nose To Brain Drug Delivery System (DDS)
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$577M; Series B $5.5M–$385M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$21M; Series A $5.5M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

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.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 13 in the past 12 months

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$179M; Series B $5.9M–$302M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

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.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Estonia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$48M; Series A $19M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$54M; Series A $5.5M–$275M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

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.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$18M; Series A $5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • Bé-A Japan — Bé-A Japan producer and distributor of fashion accessories. They provide products that include underwear, sanitary napkins, interior goods, fashion accessories, health foods, and cosmetic products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$41M; Series A $16M–$151M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

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.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 10 in the past 12 months

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$47M; Series A $12M–$275M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

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
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Content, Task Management
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$25M; Series A $55M–$86M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Aqua System — AQUA SYSTEM manufactures mil-kin, a microscope that enables the real-time visualization of bacteria. The company also handles the slightly acidic electrolytes water Purester system for agricultural field usage, generates equipment for hypochlorous water, and more.
  • Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 53 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 334
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$16M; Series A $2.1M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
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Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $983k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeigo — Zeigo is a company formed by a team of like-minded clean energy & tech pioneers with a mission to help companies transition to a low carbon economy.
  • Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
  • Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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Shintaro Tabata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
  • Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.
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Yosemite
VC Fund · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Yosemite is an investment management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, Water, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • beBit, Inc. — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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Daisaku Harada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Tourism, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
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Future Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$17M; Series A $16M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
  • IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
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Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
  • Civitas — Civitas is a startup company based in Tokyo which provides Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) systems.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Series A $18M–$165M; Series B $21M–$357M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Series A $7.8M–$130M; Series B $25M–$343M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
  • LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
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Toppan Printing
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. provides commercial printing and related services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Information & Networks, Living Environment, and Electronics. The Information & Networks segment provides commercial printing services for posters, catalogs, pamphlets, flyers, calendars, pop materials, and gifts, as well asoffers design and event services, sales promotion planning, multimedia related activities, and database and network system design and operation services; and publications printing services magazines and books, as well as CDROMs, DVDs, and other electronic publications. It also offers securities, such as stocks, bonds, gift certificates, and product coupons; cards comprising magnetic cards and prepaid cards; and develops and designs IC card systems, IC tag systems, and security management systems. This segment supplies various business form services, including direct mail, integrated slips, data print services, cards, envelopes, catalogs, and sales and maintenance of equipment. The Living Environment segment offers a range of packaging services, such as packaging planning, development, and production; development and production of packaging materials; design and production of packaging related system equipment; filling services; and packaging consulting. It also provides decorative paper/film, wallpaper, flooring materials, interior materials, and exterior materials. The Electronics segment offers display products that include color filters for LCDs, shadowmasks, screens for micro-display rear projection TVs, and functional films; and semiconductor products comprising photomasks, leadframes, printed wiring boards, substrates for semiconductor packages, design of printed wiring boards, LSI circuits, printed wiring, and performance assessment software. The company has a strategic alliance with AU Optronics Corp. Toppan Printing was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Series B $3M–$536M; Corporate Round $1.9M–$206M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KabuK Style — KabuK Style provides services that combines co -working spaces, accommodation facilities and cafes.Our service will be started from Nagasaki and We aim to expand the services all over the world.
  • Toreta — Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, andaccepts reservations through the internet.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Infcurion, Inc. — The Infucurion Group is a business development professional that is pushing the cashless era with the power of technology .
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$27M; Series A $2.1M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
  • Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
  • Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$21M; Series A $8.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$10M; Series C $20M–$165M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VAZ — VAZ is a venture company that transforms everyday small changes into a better society together with YouTuber and other influential creators.
  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
  • 91springboard — 91springboard is a co-working company that provides part-time office solutions for startups, business owners, and small to large companies. The company offers 24×7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.91springboard was founded in 2012 by Anand Vemuri, Pranay Gupta, Varun Chawla,and Deepak Sharma.
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Hiromi Watase
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Hiromi Watase

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Rental, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • TASKAJI — TASKAJI is an online housekeeping service that matches people looking for someone to do their housekeeping with those who want to work as housekeepers.The companies motto is of “from the nuclear family to the extended family” and it aims to provide people with more leisure time through its concept of “housekeeping sharing.
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elDesign
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

elDesign is a consulting company that also operates a regional revitalization business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, CleanTech, Wholesale
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Energy Trade — Energy Trade is a energy & power wholesaler that procures and provides wholesale power services for retail electric power companies.
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CCBT Private Equity
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

CCBT Private Equity is a corporate venture capital firm of CCB Trust.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.
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Midea Capital
VC Fund · Guangdong, Jilin, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Midea Capital is a market-oriented private equity investment institution focusing on industrial investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.
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TD Investment
VC Fund · Tarumi, Hyogo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

TD Investment is a venture capital arm of TORIDOLL Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Parking, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Akippa — Akippa is a Osaka based parking space reservation app company.
  • On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.
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Septeni
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Septeni is developing various one-stop services to solve customers' marketing issues focusing on the Internet advertising agency business that has a proven track record in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • YRGLM — YRGLM Inc. provides marketing platform. The Company offers advertising platform "AD EBiS", automated advertising report creation tool "AdRepo", commercial distribution platform "EC-CUBE", and more. YRGLM serves clients in Asia and America.
  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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China Science and Technology Innovation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

China Science and Technology Innovation operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LePure Biotech — Lechun Biology is an enterprise engaged in disposable products and leak detection equipment in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The company develops and produces disposable biopharmaceutical process equipment and consumables. The products are used for the storage, transportation, filling and leak detection of various samples inbiosimilars, vaccines and other biopharmaceutical processes. The core product is a disposable storage bag. Recently completed B+ round of financing. This round of financing will be mainly used for the development of a number of innovative new products, the establishment of a US R&D center, the integration of the upstream industrial chain, the securing of the supply chain, and the expansion of the R&D market operation team at home and abroad.
  • Xinling Pharmaceutical — Xinling Pharmaceutical is an innovative transdermal preparation platform company.
  • Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.
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Chushin Venture Capital
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Chushin Venture Capital is a venture capital fund established by Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Travel, Home Decor
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
  • AlphaNavi Pharma — AlphaNavi Pharma specializes in the research and development of new drugs.
  • On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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EPCO
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

EPCO is an architectural design company that supports the homes and livelihoods of people around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Smart Home, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechange — Tokyo-based Enechange, the company offering an energy price comparison site under the same name .They are disseminating information on electricity and energy, useful electricity savings and savings right now, in order to liberalize the electricity in 2016.Enechange.Jp/try/detail Let's now begin the power company to choose in! Themiddle person is a graduate student intern! I am studying every day.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
  • UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
  • Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology
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Zhuhai Huafa Group
VC Fund · Zhuhai, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Zhuhai Huafa Group has actively implemented national strategies, connecting the vision of Zhuhai city with its own corporate strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Hardware
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: China, Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vital Thin Film Materials — Pioneer Thin Film Materials Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Pioneer Group, dedicated to R&D, production, sales and recycling of sputtering targets and evaporation materials for vacuum coating. The product series includes targets, ingots, granules and powders made of high-purity metals, alloys, precious metals and ceramic materials, which arewidely used in display, photovoltaic, semiconductor, precision optics, data storage and glass and other fields.
  • Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.
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Gaiax
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Makigumi — Makigumi provides buildings design, management, construction, and real estate consulting services.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate investment platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Development Bank of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Development Bank of Japan is an integrated investment and loan service provider to domestic and international clients. It was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Japan, Tanzania, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Series A $7.7M–$90M; Series D $20M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADDX — Private market Investment with lower minimums. ADDX gives investors access to private equity, hedge fund, real estate & other alternative investment choices.
  • 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.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
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GMO Pepabo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

GMO Pepabo, Inc. established in 2003 as a web hosting service company. Since its foundation the company has focused on consumer-targeted Internet services, and today it comprises four business segments: Hosting which operates consumer domain registration and web hosting services, Ecommerce Support which provides ecommerce platform solutions,Customer to customer (C2C) marketplace for handmade products, and Community that facilitates communication among Internet users through blogging and media portal services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, E-Commerce, Web Development
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bunzz — Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures.
  • New Revo — New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".
  • Neworld — New World Co., Ltd. is a startup company from Fukuoka that aims to make the Japanese brand the No. 1 in the world. For everyone who loves Japan, we will take the leap forward with Japanese manufacturing companies, including the operation of the EC site "CRAFT STORE".
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ABC Dream Ventures
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $247M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • JX Press — The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters
  • Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
  • 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.
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$6.9M; Series A $1.4M–$16M; Series B $10M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Delivered Korea — Buy KPOP, Korean skincare, any products from Korean shopping sites. Use our free Korean address, consolidation, forwarding, personal shopper!
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Yoshitsune Ido

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
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Sustainability Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 14 deals from 55 investors.

55
investors
in Japan Sustainability startups
14
deals
in Japan Sustainability startups
$28M
median round
in Japan Sustainability startups
15%
lead investors
lead at least one round
14%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage
96/4
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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