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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Japan

Last updated: May 2024 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
Monex Ventures	4
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	4
MTG Ventures	4
Future Venture Capital	3
Yamaguchi Capital	3
AgFunder	2
Leave a Nest	2
F-Prime Capital	2
Hiroshima Venture Capital	2
XTech Ventures	2
Suzuki Tatsuya	2
VOYAGE VENTURES	2
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan	2
Global Brain Corporation	2
Monozukuri Ventures	2
JA Mitsui Leasing	2
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	2
The Seed Capital	2
Saison Ventures	1
Lifetime Ventures	1
DOGAN beta	1
Shuusaku Yano	1
Nanto Capital Partners	1
TD Investment	1
Yu Akasaka	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Denso	1
Daishi Bank	1
SHOKOU	1
Meinan M&A	1
Gogin Capital	1
Terrada Warehouse	1
Tokio Marine	1
Genesia Ventures	1
Yakumi	1
UNITED	1
Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings	1
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital	1
Tsuneishi Capital Partners	1
Eight Roads Ventures Japan	1
Hiroaki Kitano	1
Primal Capital	1
Music Securities	1
Japan Bank for International Cooperation	1
Ikemori Venture Support	1
Sompo Holdings	1
NEC Corporation	1
Kewpie Corporation	1

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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.

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.
ProfilePrint — Helping agribusinesses buy and sell better, ProfilePrint is powered by a patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology. ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality.
Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
SPACER Japan — SPACER is a 24-hour handover IoT locker that can open and close doors with a smartphone.
Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.

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

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
Lx Design — Lx Design is an application that connects schools with people who wants to work as a teacher.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

My Salon — My Salon is an AI cosmetics recommendation service that provides skin care services.
Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Manufacturing, Task Management
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Payn — Payn is a digital billing tool that automates the cancellation fee billing process by automating message sending and billing reminders.
Baby Jam — Baby Jam is a music app that offers music promotion, video editing, videography, and transaction services.
Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

OlsAro — OlsAro produces salt-tolerant crops.
Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.

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.

F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Metsera — Metsera operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
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.

Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

Investment focus

Task Management, Manufacturing, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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
SPACER Japan — SPACER is a 24-hour handover IoT locker that can open and close doors with a smartphone.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
CleanFiber — CleanFiber is a construction manufacturing company that makes building insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard. They are preparing to launch their first facility and they have customer commitments. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
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.

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

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.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
B dot Medical — B dot Medical is creating an ultra-compact proton cancer therapy device to improve care for all and add to society through radiotherapy.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.

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.
AI Communis — Automatic Speech Recognition, NLP, SaaS

Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Marketing
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ekei labs — ekei labs provides tools that make healthy longevity plans possible, including ekei.GLYTRA which allows you to easily measure your biological age from the comfort of your home. With our scientifically based measurement methods, you can make a plan to enjoy a long and healthy life.
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)

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

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.
Geofra — 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.

Yano Shuusaku is an Angel Investor

Investment focus

Farming, Consulting, Agriculture
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Terrace Mile — Terrace Mile provides farming support and consulting services.

Nanto Capital Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Retail, Gift Card, E-Commerce
Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

READYFOR — READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
Nippon Hydropowtech — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.

TD Investment is a venture capital arm of TORIDOLL Holdings.

Investment focus

Retail, Parking, Automotive
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Akippa — Akippa is a Osaka based parking space reservation app company.
On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Payn — Payn is a digital billing tool that automates the cancellation fee billing process by automating message sending and billing reminders.
enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

You can see Home. DENSO continues to develop technologies that support a better life for all.

Investment focus

Automotive, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

Seurat Technologies — Seurat Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2015. Main offices in Wilmington, MA
Zongmu — ZongMu Technology was founded in January 2013. Headquartered in Pudong ZhangJiang high-tech park of Shanghai, ZongMu has RD centers in Beijing and ShenZhen respectively. Through its innovative solution and excellent service to the local market, ZongMu has shipped multiple SurroundView ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance System) in main stream OEMautomotive markets, becoming the leading SurroundView ADAS solution vendor for China domestic market and formed strategic partnership with multiple OEM car makers and their tier1 suppliers.
Ridecell — Looking to modernize access to your fleet, improve workflow automation, or deploy mobility, rental, and motor pool experiences? Ridecell is here to help!

Daishi Bank is a Japanese regional bank that provides a range of financial services including banking, leasing, and securities. The firm is also engaged in credit guarantee and credit card businesses. Daishi was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Niigata, Japan.

Investment focus

Energy, Agriculture, Internet of Things
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Plant form — Plant form is an Agri IT venture production of high value-added products.such as caviar production and energy-circulating plants that utilize natural / excess energy, as well as plant factories pursuing efficiency such as automation and mass production, and business in which facilities themselves become entertainment To make agricultureinteresting and profitable.

SHOKOU is an insurance agency that specializes in property insurance, life insurance and real estate.

Investment focus

Farming, Consulting, Agriculture
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Terrace Mile — Terrace Mile provides farming support and consulting services.

Meinan M & A is a M & A company in the Tokai area. It is committed to the local community, and M & A rooted in the region through partnerships with financial institutions in the Tokai area.

Investment focus

Task Management, AgTech, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.

Gogin Capital provides financial services and invests in insurance companies.

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.

Terrada Warehouse is a storage and warehousing services company that provides real estate management and agent services.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

New Revo — New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".
Seak — People who do agriculture, people who buy vegetables, and vegetables themselves.

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc., an insurance holding company, provides life and non-life insurance services in Japan and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Domestic Property and Casualty Insurance, Domestic Life Insurance, Overseas Insurance, and Finance and Others. It offers various non-life insurance products, including auto,home, travel and leisure, and personal accident and medical insurance; and life insurance products, such as whole life, cancer, medical, and annuity insurance, as well as international and reinsurance products. The company also provides investment advisory and investment trust management services; staffing, employment arrangement, and outsourcing services; facility services, including management and operation of real estates and facilities; and real estate investment advisory services. In addition, it is involved in risk consulting, non life insurance agency, financial instruments intermediary, and individual financial consulting services. Further, the company provides services related to life insurance solicitation, medical and health-related services, derivatives services, and various assistance services. Source- businessweek-[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=8766:JP]

Investment focus

SaaS, Medical, Biopharma
Series B, Series E
United States

Portfolio highlights

Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
Acologix — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

YourTrade — ONE KEY TO GLOBAL TRADE
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

A platform connecting global angel investors with startups based in, or relating to, Japan

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.

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
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.

Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings manufactures and sells soft drinks and provides energy and gas services to homes and businesses.

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.

Miyazaki Taiyo Capital is a venture capital company that specializes in seed investments, early stage venture investments and late stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Farming, Biotechnology, Management Consulting
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
Terrace Mile — Terrace Mile provides farming support and consulting services.
SUDx-Biotec — SUDx-Biotec focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of sugar chain technology. The company has developed a diagnostic system for highly sensitive detection of viruses, and is developing an electricity-free diagnosis kit for viruses.

Tsuneishi Capital Partners is a company that formulates and operates investment partnerships.

Investment focus

Energy, Robotics, Drones
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Eight Roads has a 50+ year history of investing and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies, supporting them as they scale to become global leaders.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
OpenLogi — OpenLogi is a Tokyo based logistics platform focused on SMEs and freelancers. OpenLogi was founded back in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito who was previously involved in launching Japanese magazine subscription service Fujisan.co.jp. Based on his experience in discussing and negotiating with logistics companies, he founded OpenLogi to addresslogistics solutions for small e-commerce players.
Xbit — X-bit offers a chatbot service that enables shop owners to gather availabilities from employees and create shift schedules.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

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

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.

Music Securities is a micro-investment platform.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Finance
Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HAKKI AFRICA — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Hokkaido Bio-Industry — Hokkaido Bio-Industry provides functional foods and supplements, general food ingredients, monozukuri market development and sales agency support, and repackage business. They enhances the health functions of onions, functional research on yacon and aronia, and numerous basic researches that have been carried out in collaboration with universities.

Japan Bank for International Cooperation

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, AgTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
India, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NHPC — NHPC is a Hydropower generation company that plans, promotes, and organizes an integrated and efficient development of power.NHPC Limited (formerly known as National Hydroelectric Power Corp.) was incorporated on 7th November 1975 as Central Govt. Enterprise for development of Hydro Power in Central Sector. Since then the Corporation has becomethe largest central utility for hydro power development in India The company is mandated to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of power in all aspects through Conventional and Non Conventional Sources in India and abroad. NHPC is a Schedule ‘A’ Enterprise of Govt. of India with Miniratna status since 2008. With an authorized share capital of Rs.15,000 crores. NHPC is a premier organization in country for development of hydro power.To begin with, NHPC was assigned three most difficult and almost abandoned projects i.e. 180 MW Baira Siul in HP, 105 MW Loktak in Manipur and 345 MW Salal-I in J&K from the erstwhile Central Hydroelectric Project Control Board. With the commissioning of Baira Siul in 1981, Loktak in 1983 and Salal-I in 1987, NHPC established its strong position in the hydro power sector of the country. Along the journey of over 44 years, NHPC’s total installed capacity has reached to 7071.2 MW from 24 projects including JV, Solar and Wind.
Wellesta — Wellesta specializes in market analysis, market research reports, brand development, and key accounts management services.
Antofagasta — Antofagasta is a Chilean business that operates in various sectors of the economy. It is one of the most important conglomerates of Chile with equity participation in Antofagasta Minerals.WE ARE A CHILE-BASED COPPER MINING GROUP WITH INTERESTS IN TRANSPORT Our history began as the Antofagasta (Chili) and Bolivia Railway Company Limited,incorporated in London in 1888. It raised money on the London Stock Exchange to build and operate a railway from Antofagasta, a port on the Pacific Coast of northern Chile, to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.Antofagasta is one of the major international copper producers with its activities concentrated mainly in Chile where it now operates four copper mines: Los Pelambres, Centinela (previously the Esperanza and Tesoro mines), Antucoya and Zaldivar (50% owned, 50% owned by the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold).

Ikemori Venture Support is an early-stage startup funding firm.

Investment focus

B2B, Venture Capital, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
Polyuse — Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology".
Owners Co — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.

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.

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.

NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.
Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
D-Wave Systems — D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services.

Kewpie engaged in manufacturing, wholesaling, transportation, and warehousing of food products. The company's business center is in China but also expanded in Europe and the United States. Also, strengthen the domestic seasonings business and cut vegetables main future, they will focus on the egg market for business and rush to monetize ofoverseas business. Has been "馳名 trademark" for the first time by the Chinese government as a Japanese food manufacturer.

Investment focus

Retail, Fitness, Wellness
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FiNC — FiNC combines data analysis, rich content, and social elements to help users log, understand, manage, and improve their health and wellness.
Office de Yasai — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

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