Top 15 Android VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in September 2025
A list of 15 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in September 2025
| Investor | Android Japan investments | 
|---|---|
| Mitsubishi UFJ Capital | 2 | 
| Excite Japan | 1 | 
| SMBC Venture Capital | 1 | 
| Yokohama Capital | 1 | 
| OPT | 1 | 
| Monozukuri Ventures | 1 | 
| TBS Innovation Partners | 1 | 
| Shinsei Capital Partners | 1 | 
| Osaka University Venture Capital | 1 | 
| Taisei | 1 | 
| Istyle | 1 | 
| UNITED | 1 | 
| SBI Investment | 1 | 
| Sansei Capital Investment | 1 | 
| OPT Ventures | 1 | 
            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, Singapore
 
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        - LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
 - Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
 - FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes
 - Series B, Seed, Funding Round
 - Japan
 
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        - 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.
 
            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, Software, Health Care
 - Funding Round, Series A, Series B
 - Japan, United States, Singapore
 
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        - Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
 - Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
 - Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
 
            Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
 - Funding Round, Series A, Seed
 - Japan
 
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        - GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
 - NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
 - Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Mobile, Advertising, Apps
 - Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
 - Japan, New Zealand, United States
 
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        - 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.
 
            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
 
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        - 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.
 - 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.
 - 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.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Internet, Content, Advertising
 - Funding Round, Series B, Series A
 - Japan
 
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        - Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
 - 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.
 
            Shinsei Capital Partners invested startup companies engaged in life science such as biotech or digital health technology.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android
 - Series B, Funding Round, Seed
 - Japan
 
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        - 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.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
 - Funding Round, Seed, Series A
 - Japan
 
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        - Ayumo — Ayumo is a research and development company that provides deep learning services with medical insights and AI technology.
 - RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
 - EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Robotics, Drones, Android
 - Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
 - Japan
 
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        - 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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Video
 - Seed, Funding Round, Series B
 - Japan
 
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        - 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.
 
            UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
 - Funding Round, Seed, Series A
 - Japan, Nigeria, United States
 
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        - Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
 - FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
 - Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
 
            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.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
 - Series B, Series A, Funding Round
 - Japan, South Korea, United States
 
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        - Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
 - Innovacell — Innovacell is a biotechnology firm entirely focused on the area of tissue engineering and it operates one of Europe's largest and most modern production facilities for the proliferation of the body's own tissue cells. Its supervisory board is chaired by the experienced financial expert, Dr. Harald Pöttinger, a director of Alpine EquityManagement AG, based in Bregenz, Austria. Innovacell currently employs 20 staff as well as numerous outside experts.
 - ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit
 
            Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Content, Medical, Task Management
 - Funding Round, Series A, Series B
 - Japan, China, Belgium
 
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        - 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.
 
            OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Content, Task Management
 - Funding Round, Series A, Seed
 - Japan, United States
 
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        - CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
 - wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
 - Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
 
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