Top 15 Android VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$397M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$425M |
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Shinsei Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Seed | Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android | $25M–$425M |
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Istyle
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Video, Beauty | $33M–$113M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | $5M–$425M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | $4.8M–$283M |
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Content, Task Management | |
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Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Hardware, Robotics | $1M–$35M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment | $980k–$89M |
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Excite Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes | $6.2M–$6.2M |
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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series D | Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $38k–$780M |
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TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Series A | Content, Internet, Software | $1.9M–$170M |
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Taisei
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Robotics, Drones, Android | |
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Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Mobile, Software, iOS | |
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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $7.1M–$142M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 462
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.
- PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $8.3M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- QREATION — QREATION is a digital intellectual property studio specializing in producing a wide range of popular content that originates primarily from social media platforms. The company focuses on creating high-quality short-form entertainment, including short dramas, comedy sketches, and variety shows.
- ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
Shinsei Capital Partners invested startup companies engaged in life science such as biotech or digital health technology.
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- Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series B $25M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Video, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $33M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Series A $5M–$170M; Series B $7.4M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
- Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
- Okuma Diamond Device — Ookuma Diamond Device Co., Ltd. | Creating a next-generation semiconductor industry from Japan, driven by the mission to support the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Series A $4.8M–$170M; Series B $5.9M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
- Pliant — Pliant makes the latest generation of corporate credit cards that adapt perfectly to business processes and needs.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
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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- Industry: Software, Content, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Hardware, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $1M–$28M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
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.
- Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
- LENZO —
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $980k–$57M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series B $6.2M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series D
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Series A $38k–$241M; Series D $7.4M–$780M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
- Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $21M–$142M; Series B $1.9M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $442M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
- Fermenstation — Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology.
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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- Industry: Robotics, Drones, Android
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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).
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)
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, iOS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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, the Developer Skills Company, leads the technical hiring and upskilling market with over 2,500 customers and a community of over 26 million developers.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$99M; Series A $18M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ayumo — Ayumo is a research and development company that provides deep learning services with medical insights and AI technology.
- QunaSys — Quantum physics is a relatively new field built since the beginning of the 20th century, but we have used MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance equipment) and lasers used for close examinations in hospitals, and semiconductors mounted on computers. Supports the technology that supports the daily life of people.QunaSys was established to bring out thequantum physics that has been active behind the scenes to the front stage, and to make use of quantum properties to realize technologies that could not be achieved with existing technologies.
- Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
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