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Top 50 Sustainability VC Funds & Investors in Japan (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
SBI Investment
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $5.9M–$302M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Content, Food and Beverage $3.4M–$300M
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
Toppan Printing
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Corporate Round, Series B Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $1.9M–$536M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Software $18M–$357M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.8M–$343M
OPT Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Software, Content, Task Management $1.5M–$86M
Yosemite
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed Legal, Water, AgTech $5.5M–$7.7M
Future Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care $6.9M–$64M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $4.1M–$275M
DBJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Australia Series A, Seed Software, Internet, Biotechnology $1.5M–$151M
PE&HR
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Education, E-Learning $380k–$21M
Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed
East Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $640k–$42M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Information Technology $380k–$34M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Education $700k–$73M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
2 Japan, Estonia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$14M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $2M–$275M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Series C SNS, Content, Finance $10M–$165M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $730k–$56M
Shenzhen Investment Holdings
VC Fund
1 China, Japan Angel, Series C Manufacturing, Electronics, Catering $137k–$137M
ProCapital
VC Fund
1 China, Japan Series A, Series B Energy, Fuel, Solar
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Taiwan, India Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce $840k–$43M
Universal Materials Incubator
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical $2M–$76M
Chushin Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Retail, Travel, Home Decor
Murata Office
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Water, Public Safety
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
China Science and Technology Innovation
VC Fund
1 China Seed
elDesign
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Energy, CleanTech, Wholesale
TD Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Retail, Parking, Automotive
Sumitomo Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series B, Corporate Round Software, Information Technology, Internet $6.3M–$233M
Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Restaurants $2.2M–$41M
IDG Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Internet, E-Commerce $2.9M–$190M
Gaiax
VC Fund
1 Japan, Italy Seed, Angel Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy $4.1M–$7.7M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $492k–$51M
D2 Garage Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Apps, Water, Hunting
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$74M
Money Forward
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1.6M–$21M
Hitachi
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Israel Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Internet of Things $3M–$115M
Development Bank of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Tanzania, Singapore Series A, Series D Manufacturing, Robotics, Health Care $7.7M–$1.2B
Culture Convenience Club (CCC)
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Beauty, Retail, Blockchain
Gogin Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Pharmaceutical, Medical, Legal $27M–$80M
Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Debt Financing, Series A Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services $2.8M–$925M
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shenzhen Investment Holdings
VC Fund · Futian, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Shenzhen Investment Holdings is a state-owned capital investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Electronics, Catering
  • Stage:Angel, Series C
  • Geography: China, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Angel $137k–$412k; Series C $78M–$137M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amex Smart — Amex Smart focuses on providing artificial intelligence-based transportation products and intelligent transportation service solutions.
  • Orient — Orient belongs to the manufacturer of optoelectronic sub-devices, display devices and components, as well as other electronic devices.
  • JingXi ZhiXing — Jingxi Zhixing is a supplier of vehicle chassis suspension and brake systems.
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ProCapital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

ProCapital is a specialized investment company with deep policy and global macroeconomic insight.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SemiDrive — Semidrive is a car smart driving chip developer specializing in automotive applications, providing users with products such as ADAS and autonomous driving. It is dedicated to helping users solve the problem of smart driving chips. It also provides research and development services for intelligent core processors. The company's main researchand development of car processor chip products, providing smart car core chips and high-performance industrial microprocessors and other semiconductor products and system-level turnkey solutions. Its chip's main application areas include: intelligent cabin and in-car entertainment systems, ADAS and L2.5 and below, and automatic controllers
  • Qingwei Intelligent Technology — Qingwei Intelligent Technology is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip maker
  • Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $840k–$41M; Series A $1.6M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
  • microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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Universal Materials Incubator
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Universal Materials Incubator Co., Ltd. is venture capital firm specializing in materials and chemical industry investments. The firm was established on October, 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Arzeda — Arzeda develops enzyme design technology that presents a new way of thinking about biocatalysis. The company was founded by David Baker and three senior members of his lab to commercialize and further develop its computational enzyme design technology.
  • Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
  • 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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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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Murata Office
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Murata Office's businesses are technology development, project management, business model construction and open innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Water, Public Safety
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
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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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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: 5
  • 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.
  • Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
  • Zhaohuang New Energy — Zhaohuang New Energy manufactures metal lithium anode products that are used in the used in the fields of next-generation solid-state lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, and lithium-air batteries.
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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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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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Sumitomo Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Sumitomo Corporation is a business services company that works with import, export, trilateral trade, and business investment in Japan.With its global network and based on trust from companies in various industries and from consumers, Sumitomo Corporation engages in multifaceted business activities by making the most of its Integrated CorporateStrength. These business activities include sales of a variety of products and services within Japan, import and export, trilateral trade, and domestic and international business investment.It was founded in 1919 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Series B $6.3M–$137M; Corporate Round $6.4M–$233M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
  • Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Restaurants
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
  • Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
  • 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.
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IDG Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 22 in the past 12 months

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$100M; Series B $6.9M–$137M; Series C $15M–$190M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • about t:me — about t:me offers coffee drinks in a recyclable sealed container. Their offering range from ordering, to customization options, to pick-up. Their coffee machines are designed to create a cup of coffee without the wait, every time. They respond to customer inquiries by phone and email.
  • dappOS — dappOS a project aimed at developing an operating protocol to lower the barriers to entry for Web3 apps by developing solutions that increase their usability and accessibility.
  • Singularity Energy Technology — Singularity Energy is committed to core technology research and product development in advanced energy storage systems, and contributes industry-leading solutions to promote large-scale clean energy integration and achieve global carbon neutrality goals.
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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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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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D2 Garage Japan
VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

D2 Garage is an Internet company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Water, Hunting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fant — Fant is a platform to share the information and skills beyond the regional for hunters.
  • nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
  • Agri Info Design — Agri Info Design provides technologies related to sophistication and computerization of agricultural production technology. Its products include the smartphone applications “AgriBus-NAVI (Agribus Navi)”, AgriBus-G +, and AgriBus-GMini. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Obihiro City, Hokkaido, Japan.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$25M; Series A $1.4M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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Money Forward
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $21M–$21M; Series A $1.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mekari — Transformasi bisnis Anda dengan software terintegrasi Mekari. Efisienkan proses bisnis & tingkatkan produktivitas karyawan Anda sekarang!
  • Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
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Hitachi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Hitachi is engaged in the manufacture and sale of electronic and electrical products worldwide. The company operates eleven business segments: information and telecommunication systems, social infrastructure, high functional materials and components, financial services, power systems, electronic systems and equipment, automotive systems, railwayand urban systems, digital media and consumer products, construction machinery, and other components and systems.The company’s Information and Telecommunication System segment offers system integration services and automated teller machines (ATM); Electricity System segment offers nuclear, hydraulic, and wind power generation systems; Social and Industrial System segment offers industrial machinery and plants; Electronic Device and System segment offer liquid crystal displays (LCD) and others; Construction segment offers hydraulic shovels and wheel loaders; High Functional Material segment offers electric wires, cables, and others; Automotive System segment offers engine management and in-car information systems; Component and Device segment offers hard disk drives; Digital Media and Consumer Product segment offer optical disk drives and refrigerators; Financial Service segment offers leasing and loan services, and Others segment manages real estate.Hitachi was founded in 1910 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series B $3M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
  • Toletta Cats — Toletta Cats is a healthcare approved by cat lovers company they aim to create a world in which we all live longer and happier with our beloved cats around us. Simple, safe and easy to use at home,in a Japanese cat-friendly way.
  • The Fabric — We are a Silicon Valley based pre-Series A startup foundry and accelerator founded by a team of highly experienced serial entrepreneurs. We work with passionate, early-stage entrepreneurs as well as venture capitalist firms focused on the cloud/IoT infrastructure space through the entire lifecycle of idea creation through company building.
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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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Culture Convenience Club (CCC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

CCC plans and operates a comprehensive entertainment business. CCC operates and proposes new lifestyles from multiple platforms, including bookstores, a database marketing business (mainly focused on T Point), and several other new-platform services, both online and offline.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gosleep — Gosleep is a healthfi-focused web3 lifestyle applications. They also provide gamefi, socialfi, and healthfi services. Additionally, they also provide token-rewarded and social gaming-driven system to encourage users to build up healthier sleep behavior's and participation.
  • SHOWROOM — SHOWROOM provides live performance broadcasts by idols and celebrities in virtual stadiums.
  • GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON — GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON is a private room-type shared salon where freelance hairdressers and teams gather.
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Gogin Capital
VC Fund · Matsue-shi, Shimane, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups

Gogin Capital provides financial services and invests in insurance companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pharmaceutical, Medical, Legal
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $27M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PuREC — Just another WordPress site
  • beBit, Inc. — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.
  • 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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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Sustainability startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$343M; Debt Financing $12M–$925M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
  • Varo Energy — VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in NorthWest Europe.
  • ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India — AM/NS India is the leading integrated flat carbon steel producer in India
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Sustainability VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 14 deals from 53 investors.

53
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

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