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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Japan

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Japan

Investor Agriculture (agtech) Japan investments
Real Tech Japan 8
Incubate Fund 6
ANOBAKA 4
MTG Ventures 4
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) 4
Monex Ventures 4
Global Brain Corporation 3
Yamaguchi Capital 3
Future Venture Capital 3
W ventures 2
Suzuki Tatsuya 2
AgFunder 2
Leave a Nest 2
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 2
XTech Ventures 2
Hiroshima Venture Capital 2
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan 2
Genesia Ventures 2
JA Mitsui Leasing 2
Energy & Environment Investment 2
The Seed Capital 2
VOYAGE VENTURES 2
F-Prime Capital 2
Monozukuri Ventures 2
IT-Farm 1
Mercari 1
DOGAN beta 1
SMBC Venture Capital 1
Tokyu Fudosan 1
Saison Ventures 1
Yu Akasaka 1
Agribusiness Investment Development 1
Numajiri HLDGS 1
FGN ABBA Lab 1
euglena 1
Tokio Marine 1
NEC Corporation 1
Chushin Venture Capital 1
Yakumi 1
Primal Capital 1
Gogin Capital 1
Norinchukin Capital 1
Cafe Company 1
Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings 1
Ikemori Venture Support 1
Sompo Holdings 1
Mekyu Co., Ltd. 1
ARCH Venture Partners 1
ABC Dream Ventures 1
Real Tech Holdings 1
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Real Tech Japan VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
  • Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments 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
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
  • Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Livetoon — Livetoon creates intellectual property characters to access various content artificial intelligence.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
MTG Ventures VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • knowuit — knowuit is a company that provides supply chain efficiency solutions to shippers. It develops and provides "Newit," a supply chain DX tool for shippers.
  • Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
  • Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryzae — Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes.
  • Creatura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 51 investments 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
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • RUTILEA — RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency.
  • AirMembrane — AirMembrane is an industrial company that provides graphene sheets and 2D material products for various industries.
  • PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
Yamaguchi Capital VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Manufacturing, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
  • ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
W ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Edukita — Belajar Bahasa Inggris jadi menyenangkan, interaktif, dan memberi hasil yang nyata. Diajar oleh guru asing berpengalaman.
Suzuki Tatsuya Angel
1985. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. In 2008, he engaged in new business support and venture support for large companies at Inspire Co., Ltd. In 2011, he was appointed director of UXConsulting company wacul. In 2012, he was appointed director of giftee.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Agriculture, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Another works — Another works is a internet platform & the industry's first service that allows you to directly approach the talent you are interested in from a database of a variety of ready-to-work and multi-tasking personnel. You can also use the performance fee for free.
AgFunder VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
  • Bluemethane — We measure, capture and ultimately utilize methane from water to prevent its escape to the atmosphere, in turn creating a new bio fuel.
  • Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management
Leave a Nest VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan
Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
  • Robopreneur — Robopreneur brings the future by empowering robotics capabilities for use in human's environment to become human's partner and enhance sustainable lifestyles.
  • Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 63 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • OpenMoney — OpenMoney is a company that offers information related to financial services.
  • RENDEZ-VOUS — RENDEZ-VOUS offers a co-ownership option for vintage cars.
Hiroshima Venture Capital VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Manufacturing, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
  • Industrial-X — INDUSTRIAL-X provides business consulting, structure transformation support, DX human resource development, solution procurement support, and BPO solutions. Their customers inquiries are addressed through online applications.
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
  • Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
  • Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
JA Mitsui Leasing VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DAIZ — DAIZ produces and sells plant-based meat, 'Miracle Meat' which uses germinated soybeans by the proprietary 'Ochiai Germination Method.' Also, DAIZ engages in research & development of raw materials and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
  • T2 Co — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Energy & Environment Investment VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Energy, Internet of Things
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
  • elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.
The Seed Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Audio, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
  • Chai — Chai empowers small businesses centered on EC. It provides end-to-end e-commerce services that everyone can enjoy and continue to use in order to unlock the great potential of Japan's many small businesses.
  • Resta — Resta manages an IT-based business that specializes in assisting people with impairments.
VOYAGE VENTURES VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Software, Internet, Content
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, China, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • pickupon — 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.
F-Prime Capital VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Odaseva — Odaseva is the leading enterprise data platform for Salesforce. Industry leaders rely on Odaseva to keep data protected, compliant, and agile.
  • RareCyte — Rarecyte provides precision medicine solutions focused on multiplexed analysis of cells and tissue with applications in both research and clinical diagnostics.
  • Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
Monozukuri Ventures VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • ImaCreate — ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system.
  • 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.
IT-Farm VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Ac-Planta — Ac-Planta provides research, development, manufacture, and sales of agrochemicals.
  • EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
Mercari VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Under our mission to circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people, Mercari, Inc. aims to use technology to connect people all over the world and create a world where anyone can unleash their potential.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, AgTech, Rental
  • Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Flamingo — Flamingo is to contribute to a multicultural society through IT.
  • Pocket Marche — Pocket Marche is a smartphone app that allows you to buy food while talking with farmers and fishermen across the country.
DOGAN beta VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
  • Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 38 investments 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
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Zenobe Energy — Discover Zenobe. Our vision: enable the transition to zero-carbon, non-polluting power and transport systems through the innovative use of battery storage.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Tokyu Fudosan VC Fund · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyu Fudosan is a Japanese company engaged in the real estate business that includes leasing, construction, and retail. Its main business line includes urban development, property management, residential, wellness, Real-Estate Agents, Tokyu Hands, and Business Innovation. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Content, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TRUNK — TRUNK is an Information site for internship and business training company
  • TRYETING — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
  • TRUNK Japan — TRUNK is a provider of Information service industry,advertising agency business and design business.
Saison Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • LUCA Japan — LUCA Japan provides digital access to alternative investments, including but not limited to private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit.
  • Susten Capital Management — Susten Capital Management develops internet asset management services.
Yu Akasaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Agribusiness Investment Development VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Agribusiness Investment Development is a venture capital firm that offers agriculture investment for agricultural corporations. It was established in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, B2B
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
  • Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.
Numajiri HLDGS VC Fund
Numajiri HLDGS provides different services and is the group company of Numajiri Sangyo.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, Agriculture, Supply Chain Management
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Japan Future Agriculture — Japan Future Agriculture will vertically integrate agricultural production, processing, sales, and exports.
FGN ABBA Lab VC Fund · Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan
FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of ​​creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.
euglena VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
euglena Co., Ltd. engages in the research, development, production, and sale of microalgae with a focus on euglena. The company also manufactures and sells foods and cosmetics using euglena. It offers green juices, cookie bars, beverages, dietary supplements, and raw materials, as well as contract manufacturing/processing services; and skincare products.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, SNS
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MEDCARE — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
  • NeuroSpace — NeuroSpace is a science venture that leads human's 24 hours to a new level with Neuroscience Technology, which elucidates the mystery of sleep .
  • Pocket Marche — Pocket Marche is a smartphone app that allows you to buy food while talking with farmers and fishermen across the country.
Tokio Marine VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Welcome to the website of Tokio Marine Holdings. Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. is the holding company for Tokio Marine Group.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Sales, Medical
  • Seed, Series B, Series E
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
  • Metromile — If you don't drive a lot, you shouldn't pay much for auto insurance. With Pay-per-mile car insurance, you could save hundreds every year.
  • Aakel Technologies — Aakel Technologies provides optimization services for energy use and mobility operations with the aim of realizing a decarbonized society.
NEC Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
  • Flyhound — Flyhound is a public safety solution to help find people fast. We enable public safety agencies using commercial drones to locate and identify mobile phones on the ground to assist in rescue efforts, locate missing persons, evacuate disaster victims, find criminal suspects, and more.
  • Vibe Video — We are creating the first of its kind ai driven app that will allow creatives to have a critical analysis of their music paired with visuals.
Chushin Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Chushin Venture Capital is a venture capital fund established by Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Travel, Home Decor
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan
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.
Yakumi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A platform connecting global angel investors with startups based in, or relating to, Japan
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, iOS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Playco — Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
  • MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
  • Wahl+Case — Wahl+Case is Tokyo's leading tech recruitment company. We help the most innovative businesses find the best people. We cover positions in IT, Engineering, Sales or Marketing in industries such as Consumer Tech, Enterprise Tech, FinTech or AdTech.
Primal Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Task Management
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
Gogin Capital VC Fund · Matsue-shi, Shimane, Japan
Gogin Capital provides financial services and invests in insurance companies.
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Investment focus
  • Pharmaceutical, Medical, Legal
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
  • S-Nanotech Co-Creation — S-Nanotech Co-Creation is a manufacture and sale of functional materials and their related devices and equipment and it is a design, manufacture and sale of machinery, optical equipment, electronic equipment, analytical equipment and their components.
Norinchukin Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Norinchukin Capital is a private equity fund management firm.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, Enterprise, Agriculture
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
  • Atlast health — Atlast Health provides high-quality psychological care to patients through technology.
Cafe Company VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Cafe Company plans and operates stores of various business types, including cafes and dining.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Aquaculture, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings manufactures and sells soft drinks and provides energy and gas services to homes and businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Aquaculture, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
Ikemori Venture Support VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Ikemori Venture Support is an early-stage startup funding firm.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Venture Capital, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Camb.ai — Camb.ai is AI-driven video content localization platform built for content creators and media producers. Join 100s of video first companies who use Camb.ai to dub videos into 100+ languages. All while preserving the original speaker voices (AI voice cloning)
  • Owners Co — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.
  • YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
Sompo Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services. In addition to the core businesses of domestic non-life insurance business, overseas insurance business, domestic life insurance business, and long-term care/senior business, they will develop new business strategies in the fields of digitaland healthcare.It was established in 2010 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Israel, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Allm — Allm is a medical ICT company dedicated to shaping healthcare. The company seeks to benefit society by launching next-generation technologies and medical communications platforms for the healthcare industry. The solutions are installed more than 18 countries across US, South America, EU, Japan, Middle East and Africa.
  • Wejo — We unlock limitless possibilities with connected vehicle data
  • GROOVE X — GROOVE X is designing and developing a totally new, next-generation household robot that no one has seen before, that truly touches people's hearts and inspires real affection.
Mekyu Co., Ltd. VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Mekyu Co., Ltd. offers its lunch meals to school systems, businesses, and hospitals. School meals promote the development of children's physical and mental health. Children receive a balanced diet every day. They are still interested in cooking and providing services. They serve delectable, safe, and secure meals made with high-qualityingredients from a specific production area. They can handle both local cooking in the park's kitchen as well as food delivery from the central kitchen. They offer industrial services. Creating a peaceful environment, providing warm service, and providing nutritional balance and healthy menus are important factors in cuisine. Users will give your work vitality by delivering a moment of serenity and happiness while they are busy every day. Meals are an essential aspect of successful treatment. They completely get this and keep in mind that sticking to energy, fat, sugar as dietary limitations, we likewise focus on shading and show to give delightful and charming dinners.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Organic, Agriculture
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
ARCH Venture Partners VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
ARCH Venture Partners provides seed / early stage venture capital for technology firms in information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Vilya — Vilya is a biotechnology company developing a novel class of drugs that precisely target the biology of disease. The company aims to create new medicines to leverage computing to make high throughput screening obsolete and cure diseases.
  • Moleculent — Moleculent is adding a functional layer of biology to pave the way for unparalleled advancements in biological research.
  • Xaira Therapeutics — Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research tobetter understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
ABC Dream Ventures VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.
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Investment focus
  • Social Media, Information Technology, Content
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • JX Press — The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters
  • Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
  • Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.
Real Tech Holdings VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Real Tech Holdings is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Aquaculture, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • CellFiber — Cell fiber technology was developed as a basic technology for handling cells in the engineering field.
  • Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
  • Tokyo Nucleic Acid Synthesis — Tokyo Nucleic Acid Synthesis is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing nucleic acid drugs using new-age medical technology.
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