Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023
Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2023
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Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Health Care, Internet, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
- Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.
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- Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Canada
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- Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
- Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
- Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, China
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- 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.
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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- Software, Internet, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States, Australia
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- 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.
YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States, Indonesia
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- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
- Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
- Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, China
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- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
- EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
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- Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
- pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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- Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, South Korea, United States
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- 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.
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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- Internet, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
- Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
- Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.
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- Information Technology, Software, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
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- 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
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Israel
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- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
- Orange — About Us With a mission of Creating a world where everyone enjoys manga since our founding in 2021 Orange has been developing various manga specialized deep l
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Spacely — Spacely is a cloud software that allows you to easily create, edit and manage VR web contents using photos taken with a 360 degree camera. From April 1, 2018 the service name has been changed from 3D Stylee to Spacely.
- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.
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- Health Care, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- Galapagos — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.
- Kaleidoscope — Powerful dashboards for data-backed decisions.
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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- Internet of Things, Software, Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Germany
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- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
- Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
- TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, South Korea
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- Yogo Robot — Yogo Robot is a robotics company dedicated to developing automated delivery solutions. Yogo Robot offers an open, extensive, and versatile multi-robot ecological system that consists of smart delivery stations, robotic couriers, and Internet of Things devices. The system boosts efficiency in last-mile delivery and provides a more seamless userexperience than ever before. Yogo Robot is transforming how goods are transported and reimagining how humans and robots will coexist in the future by enabling the delivery industry with cutting-edge robotic technology at the terminal end.
- WHYNOT Media — content franchise for the new generation
- Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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- Software, Health Care, Marketing
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- 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)
STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, India, Indonesia
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- Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
- Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
- Testsigma — Powerful open source test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up for free today.
Koden engages in general household electrical work and sales of electrical equipment.
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- Robotics, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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- DIGITAL GRID — Digital Grid is a retail supply contract or a power supply contract with a service provider using the digital grid platform.
- LifeRobotics — Through us it is, provides the development of co-robot to help people, People will contribute to the creation of new value.
Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.
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- Task Management, Manufacturing, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan
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- Sagri — Sagri is developing agriculture software for experienced farmers.
- Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
- SmartRyde — October 5, 2021 Bloomberg featured CEO Sota Kimura's thoughts on the company's founding and future business development. March 19, 2021 What We Do to Protect Our Customer All staff are required to wear masks. Provision of alcohol-based disinfectants in
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Japan
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- CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
- BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.
- FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.
Tottori Capital is the provider of management consulting and financial services.
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- Shipping, Marketing, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
Kyushu Electric Power Company, Incorporated is a Japan-based company mainly involved in the electric power business. It has four business segments. The Electric Power segment offers electric power that the Company generated and purchased from other energy supplier. The Energy-related segment is engaged in the wholesale of thermal electric power,the research, design, construction and supervision of electric- and civil engineering-related construction work, as well as the environment protection for power plants. This segment is also involved in the sale of electric machine tools, natural uranium, gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), and the new energy generation and heat supply businesses. The Information Communications segment offers data communication, broadband, fixed phone and information technology (IT)-related services.
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- Drones, Software, Aerospace
- Series B, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Terra Drone — Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.
- DIGITAL GRID — Digital Grid is a retail supply contract or a power supply contract with a service provider using the digital grid platform.
Shimizu Corporation is an architectural, civil engineering, and general contracting firm that offers planning, design, and build solutions for a broad range of construction and engineering projects worldwide. The company builds residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, while performing civil engineering works for roads and operatingreal estate businesses.Shimizu Corporation, through its subsidiaries, sells and leases construction materials and machinery. Its service portfolio includes design-build, general construction, project management, construction management, and renovation services. The company also offers investigation, planning, research, evaluation, diagnosis, soil investigation, surveying, and consulting in connection with construction works.Shimizu Corporation was founded in 1803 by Kisuke Shimizu and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Space Travel, Robotics, Internet of Things
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan
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- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- Edgematrix — EDGEMATRIX is a startup spun out from the AI project team of a global venture company and provides "Edge AI Box", "Edge AI platform" and "Edge AI Solutions".
- PicoCELA — PicoCELA has strived to develop and implement world best wireless backhaul technology. Our backhaul technology is realized in a unique protocol suite which utilized a dynamic tree routing algorithm and a wireless frame transfer technology to suppress radio wave interference. The technology is protected by more than 20 registered patents worldwide.For 10 or more multi-hop wireless relay set ups, our backhaul delivers stable broadband transmission with low latency. PicoCELA systems have been installed in over 100 sites in Japan and more than 3,000 units are operating every day. We have reduced the LAN cabling by more than 70% at most installation sites resulting in massive installation cost savings. We recently released PCWL-0400, an edge computer with backhaul WLAN and enterprise wireless access points to reduce not only cabling but amount of Big Data to be uploaded.
Tsuneishi Capital Partners is a company that formulates and operates investment partnerships.
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- Energy, Robotics, Drones
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
- KAMOMEYA — Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation.
- POWERNEXT — POWERNEXT provides electric power supply & demand management, rate calculation, customer management & environmental value trading services.
SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, China
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- Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
- UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
BASE Partners is an independent venture capital organization organized by members who are professionals in each field such as managers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and accountants, and who are also entrepreneurs at the same time.Early and middle, mainly in the seed stage before and after the establishment. Up to the stage, we invest inall entrepreneurs and their challenges, and we also provide hands-on management support to startups that lack resources, experience and networks as well as funding.
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- Marketing, Content, Task Management
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan
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- Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
- Fabeee — "Fabeee" meant to support customers with the challenge of new manufacturing and with all efforts. The line between offline and online is no longer there, and manufacturing is about to change. We will fundamentally change the definition of manufacturing and support customers from various angles.
- SODA Japan — SODA is a CMS software development media management business.
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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- Content, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
- patternstorage — patternstorage is an IT advisory company for apparel manufacturing industry.
- Nature Architects — Nature Architects develops Direct Functional Modeling (DFM), the design algorithm for additive manufacturing by which users are able to directly design the functional properties for their product. Using DFM, it is possible to design multiple features, such as motion, kinematics, and elasticity, which have been difficult to design in theconventional design process. By leveraging the benefit of additive manufacturing, users can design and manufacturer a product with multiple functions in a consolidated one part. DFM can be applied to the area in which complex processing and assembling is required such as automobiles, airplanes, Robotics was necessary development.
Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, India, Indonesia
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- BharatNXT — BharatNXT is a B2B fintech platform. BharatNXT's objective is to become the go-to partner for SMEs on their path to becoming major companies for their business payments, credit, compliance, and sourcing needs.
- PolicyStreet — PolicyStreet is a regional full-stack InsurTech company. We customise insurance solutions for businesses and consumers.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.
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- Robotics, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Israel
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- H3 Dynamics — Hydrogen Propulsion from Drones to Passenger Aircraft | Solutions for Digitized Maintenance, Emergency Services & Parcel Delivery
- May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.
- EneCoat Technologies — EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.
SPARX Innovation for Future Co.,Ltd. was established in April 2020. We will build and verify temporary investment (investment intelligence) in new areas, centered on space, and make investments.
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- Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- Japan
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- space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that will allow the AI to know the geospatial data of the Earth & easily assign another "Earth" in VR.
- Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
- 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.
BroadBand Tower supports IoT (internet of things) through its advanced technological capabilities.
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- Software, Automotive, Taxi Service
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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- DennoKotsu — Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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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- Software, Education, E-Learning
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- 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.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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- Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Myanmar
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- Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
- IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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- Food Delivery, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan
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- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- Beatrust — BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration, and driving innovation. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
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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- Information Technology, Software, Education
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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.
Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals, and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshoretrading.
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- Internet, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
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- LineVision — LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.
- 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.
- Cirba Solutions — Where to recycle end-of-life batteries? Cirba Solutions is the leader in EV and end-to-end battery recycling and meets all recycling needs. Start Recycling Now!
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Belgium
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- Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
- K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, China, United States
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- Jenfi — Drive growth with Jenfi's revenue-based financing. Tailored funding for marketing & expansion. Flexible repayments. Apply now.
- MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
- Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations asits diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- Amogy — Amogy develops a novel carbon-free energy storage system using ammonia as a fuel, exhibiting unprecedented energy density
- KoBold Metals — KoBold is a mineral exploration company driving the clean energy future by accelerating the discovery of critical metals.
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series B, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan, United States, Israel
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- 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
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
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- LABOT — LABOT is a Japanese company that combines the power of finance and technology to create future education possibilities.
- DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
- microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
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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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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 .
Mobility Technologies provides vehicle allocation systems for taxi operators.
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- DennoKotsu — Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service
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