Top 15 Wine and Spirits Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Internet, Medical | $925k–$69M |
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Ken Takayama
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Reservations, Travel, Apps | $6.2M–$41M |
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Hideto Fujino
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Reservations, Travel, Real Estate | $3.4M–$41M |
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Takashi Nagao
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SNS, Video, Brewing | |
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Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps | |
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Takashi Mitachi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | SNS, Brewing, Employment | |
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Spiral Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology | $300k–$100M |
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CITIC Agriculture
VC Fund
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1 | China, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage, Drones | $2.9M–$110M |
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Makuake
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage | $76k–$66M |
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MAKOTO Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Medical, Manufacturing, Software | |
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Seio Nagami
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Task Management, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Task Management, Manufacturing, Content | $549k–$66M |
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$330M |
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JAFCO Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | |
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Ningxia State Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Manufacturing, Wine and Spirits | |
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Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Internet, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $925k–$55M; Series A $14M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
- Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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- Industry: Reservations, Travel, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $41M–$41M; Angel $6.2M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
- Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
- Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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- Industry: Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3.4M–$41M; Series A $19M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Takashi Nagao
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- Industry: SNS, Video, Brewing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FromTo — FromTo offers construction services.
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- FLATBOYS — FLATBOYS specializes in planning, development and operation of internet business.
Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
Takashi Mitachi joined BCG in 1993 and is the head of BCG’s Japan operations. He leads the Strategy practice in Japan and is also a core member of the Financial Institutions, Marketing and Sales, and Organization practice areas.Takashi has led projects for Japanese and multinational clients in a wide range of financial and consumer industries.He has also written a book, The BCG Way – the Art of Strategic Insight, which focuses on how to develop capabilities to generate strategic insight.Before joining BCG, Takashi worked for 14 years at Japan Airlines, where his positions included manager of the corporate planning department at the head office in Tokyo. He holds an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School and a BA in American literature from the University of Kyoto.
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- Industry: SNS, Brewing, Employment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- POL — Make academia open & cool.
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$60M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $961M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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
CITIC Agriculture serves as the only platform to plan and execute CITIC Limited’s agriculture investment strategy. CITIC Agriculture focuses on agricultural biotechnology with a mission of upgrading China’s agricultural industry. Leveraging CITIC Limited's advantages in capital, branding and internationalisation, CITIC Agriculture today isbuilding and shaping globally competitive agricultural companies.
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- Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage, Drones
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series B $2.9M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EAVISION — EAVision is a smart agricultural robotics company that uses computer vision for autonomous crop protection. Its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine AI visual recognition and precision spraying to allow farmers to protect their produce even in challenging geographical environments.
- Xige Estate — Xige Estate operates a wine estate that has more than 30,000 acres of its own vineyards. It has advanced production equipment, including fermentation tanks, intelligent temperature-controlled brewing systems, pre-processing equipment, filling lines, and vineyard intelligent agricultural control systems.The company was founded in 2017 and isheadquartered in Qingtongxia, Ningxia, China.
- Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.
Makuake is a operation of various support services centered on the cloud funding platform "Makuake".It is a product production support project utilizing R & D technology.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $165k–$66M; Equity Crowdfunding $76k–$3.2M; Product Crowdfunding $302k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate — Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate is a Chocolate startup
MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.
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- Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Seio Nagami
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- Industry: Task Management, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Stock — Stock develops products that relieve the stress of sharing information from teams around the world.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Industry: Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$66M; Angel $549k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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- Industry: Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $3.4M–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$330M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
- Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- 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.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Wine and Spirits
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.
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