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Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Japan in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Android startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Japan in December 2024

Investor	Android Japan investments
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Osaka University Venture Capital	1
OPT	1
Recruit Holdings	1
Sansei Capital Investment	1
Hirofumi Miki	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Excite Japan	1
Monozukuri Ventures	1
Taisei	1
istyle	1
TBS Innovation Partners	1
SBI Investment	1
UNITED	1
Shinsei Capital Partners	1

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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 A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.

OPT, Inc. is Japanese e-marketing company, which supports customer's Internet marketing holding the concept 'e-marketing that would directly into sales'.OPT, Inc. aims to create new market by realizing maximizing customer's ROI and finding the best way of solutions to the customer's problem. It is the OPT'stask to propose collectively the way how to use the Internet as a marketing tool for customers and support them.In order to maximize customer's ROI, it is necessary to make ads, develop sites, develop marketing strategies, and support communication and IT strategies.At OPT. Inc: it has wide business lines, customers would be supported by the 4 business fields making ads, technology, solution, and contents.The important thing for the e-marketing company is always standing the idea "market in" not "product out". And so OPT, Inc instantaneously developed its own tool to objectively effect measurement and has tried to improve customer's marketing by using the objective data.

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Raksul — Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.
OPT China — OPT China is a company that provides marketing and distribution support for Chinese consumers.
Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Recruit Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルート) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers. (Source: Wikipedia)

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Recruiting
Series A, Series B, Series C
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

milog — -Milog inc is founded in April 2009, aiming to focus on Android platform on smartphone. Business domain is an intelligence of application usage data on Android OS platform to provide worldwide handset companies and telecom operators, employing high-level statistical analysis, with Harvard Physics Team. Milog has raised $5 million (1.2 million USDin a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A). Acquired on March 2012.-Milog is founded by Yohei Kiguchi, Co-Founder/ CEO in April 2009, and his friends, then sold the entire business in March2012. Milog has the headquarter in Tokyo, and also have contractors across the world, mainly in Shanghai, San Francisco. In Japan, milog patented a core programme for this field, and was widely recognized as a top runner and innovative challenger in IT field. Milog developed "AppLog", which was an embedded software to monitor application’s battery and data consumption on an android device, and automatically optimise the application’s running task to improve the battery life. To address the battery life problem, which is the most common users concern in many polls, the demand side approach was unique and more efficient, while a lot of hardware companies tackled the issue by improving the battery size or efficiency.Milog raised total 5 million USD(1.2 million USD in a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A) from JAFCO, No.1 Japanese VC, and OPT, No.1 advertising agency, and RECRUIT, No.1 Japanese Human Resource company.
Cloudbeds — Cloudbeds is a vertical SaaS business that creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners, operators, and employees. It helps with OTAs, payments, reservations, and reporting so its clients can spend time on their most important job, taking care of their guests. Cloudbeds wasfounded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
HackerRank — HackerRank is the market-leading coding test and interview solution for hiring developers. Start hiring at the pace of innovation!

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

Investment focus

Content, Medical, Task Management
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, China, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.

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, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Excite Japan is a Japan-based company focused on the development of internet businesses in Japan. Starting with operations of a portal site, its business model has grown through being focused on services targeted at women.Excite Japan’s revenue is derived from placed-advertising by companies as a media content portal, internet-connection servicefees, and the provision of paid content to users. It was launched in 1997 and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes
Series B, Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Open8 — Open8 is a content technology company that provides of SaaS, API, and MLaaS solutions.
RoomClip — RoomClip is a photo-sharing service where users can find inspiration for their home and life.
Locondo.jp — Locondo.jp is a Japanese e-commerce site offering a wide variety of apparel and shoes. The company was established in 2010 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

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

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.

Comprehensive building maintenance company headquartered in Nagoya city, with offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Hamamatsu and Osaka. They are developing comfort proposal type business activities in various scenes including cleaning, security, facility management and renewal of office buildings, maintenance and parking of hotels, management ofunderground malls, preservation of park plants.

Investment focus

Robotics, Drones, Android
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Yolo Japan — Yolo is a Operation of information media for foreign residents and residents of Japan.Operation of Operation of YOLO BASE, a working inbound facility for foreign residents and residents of Japan Community English conversation service for children Sharing English conversation service that utilizes free time International students, residents /residents and foreign visitors to Japan Market research services
Mira Robotics — Mira Robotics is a software based company provide services that can robots in various fields.
Blue Innovation — Development of a safe flight management system for unmanned aerial vehicles Solutions for R & D and unmanned aerial vehicles Research and development projects System development business General operations Japan UAS Industry Promotion Council (JUIDA) administrative work (secretariat).

istyle, Inc. engages in the management of beauty-related online platforms as well as the provision of advertising, marketing, and research services. It operates through the following segments: On Platform, Beauty Service, Global, and Others. The On Platform segment deals with domestic and overseas marketing, as well as premium membershipservices. The Beauty Service segment manages domestic cosmetics electronic commerce sites in addition to its specialty shop @cosme store. The Global segment includes services developed overseas. The Others segment covers beauty staff dispatching and investment training services. It has overseas subsidiaries including in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and The United States.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Video
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
Toreta — Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, andaccepts reservations through the internet.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
standing ovation — Standing ovation develops and offers fashion coordination applications.

TBS Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the media, content, entertainment, and IT sectors. It finances companies engaged in tech companies in sectors like Digital Media, E-commerce, AdTech, and Big Data Analytics. Top investments include iRidge, Fringe 81, Open Eight, Data Section, Piece of Cake. The company has 20 millionyen of assets under management.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Advertising
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Okage — Okage provide smartphone orders, tablet menus, and POS cash register services linked to them that allow you to order restaurants by smartphone.
Vark — ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.

Shinsei Capital Partners invested startup companies engaged in life science such as biotech or digital health technology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
MiraBiologics — Through the development of next-generation multifunctional biopharmaceuticals (neobiologics) using technology based on a unique new concept , we will realize our mission, grow as a global company, and contribute to human health care. By developing biopharmaceuticals with new modalities using LassoGraft Technology ® as a core technology, we willwork on solving unmet medical needs, satisfying treatment methods in the field of rare diseases, and proposing solutions to expensive medical problems.

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