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Top 15 Art VC Funds in Japan

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 15 VC funds that invest in Art startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Art VC Funds in Japan

Investor	Art Japan investments
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
DK Gate	2
Globe Advisors	2
Fuji Startup Ventures	2
Akatsuki Games Inc.	1
East Ventures	1
Nippon Venture Capital	1
SX Capital Japan	1
Morinaga	1
XTech Ventures	1
YJ Capital	1
B Dash Ventures	1
Dentsu	1
Gakken Plus Japan	1
Darwin Venture Management	1

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UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.

DK Gate is a joint venture company of Digital Garage and Kodansha.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Social Media
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
Psychic VR Lab — Psychic VR Lab is a startup company that handles fashion VR and MR shopping service STYLY. They are creating a future where they will live in space.

Globe Advisors is an independent investor that finds companies that are expected to grow significantly in the future. A growing company is one that a good manager and his team can put in a good product in a good market. Such companies are properly valued, funds for growth are raised and a better future is created. Globe Advisors wants to be acompany that can contribute to the creation of such a society.

Investment focus

SNS, Artificial Intelligence, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hutzper — Hutzper is a computing solution for the manufacturing industry specialized in image recognition and AI development.
initialpoint — initialpoint develops an authentication systems for the telecommunications industry, social infrastructure, and security solution companies.
Galapagos — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.

Fuji Startup Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings, specializes in startup to early stage investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Product Design, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Suvaco — Suvaco is a Tokyo based home design marketplace startup.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.

Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
YADOKARI — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.

SX Capital is an asset management firm targeting private IT-related venture companies. It aims to provide all kinds of support for growth, not just investment. The firm was founded in 2000 and is based in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Art, Content
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

WELMO — WELMO has currently been working on R&D to launch Japan's largest welfare AI service platform called "CPA(Care Plan Assistant)" which supports care coordinator (caregiver), who helps a daily activities of the elderly people, to create a care plan for them, with using ICT and advanced technology, especially NLP(Natural LanguageProcessing), in terms of knowledge support. It has mainly two fundamental technologies; data warehouse includes all fast date and big date about care, explainable AI that describes a reason why the care is provided for the users. It also reduces time and cost to create the care plan, which enables anyone to be able to use easily and get enough information that the users want to know and use.
Housmart — Housmart is a real estate media company
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.

Morinaga is a confectionery company that manufactures, purchases, and sells confectionery food and healthy drinks. The company aims to contribute to the realization of abundant, safe eating choices, and the promotion of health among the people of the world. Its diverse range of confectionery products is divided into five groups that includeconfectioneries, food, frozen desserts, weider, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Art, Pet, Mobile
Seed, Series B, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

YAMAP — YAMAP is born to make your outdoors, such as hike or ski, more safety, and more enjoyable with your iPhone. YAMAP App can track and log your outdoors, view elevation info, and build an online outdoor journal.  Love & share the outdoors with YAMAP ! ■■ Three Main Features of YAMAP ■■ 1) Safe ◆YAMAP App makes your iPhone a special GPSdevice for the outdoors. YAMAP App could provide accurate positioning information with YAMAP's maps in Japan and your iPhone's GPS, even if you are in places not reached by mobile phone signals, such as in mountainous regions. 2) Convenience ◆ YAMAP Hybrid Maps YAMAP's maps are used as digital ones with your iPhone, and as ones on paper by downloading them to your PC (or tablet PC). 3) Share ◆You can easily share your outdoor data with your family and friends through YAMAP Web service. Once you finish your outdoor and save your data, YAMAP App automatically uploads to your online 'ACTIVITY REPORT' on YAMAP Web service (http://yamap.co.jp) where you can view your route, outdoor data, and a comprehensive workout history. In addition, YAMAP gives you the ability to easily share your outdoor data with friends and family.
Toletta Cats — Toletta Cats is a healthcare approved by cat lovers company they aim to create a world in which we all live longer and happier with our beloved cats around us. Simple, safe and easy to use at home,in a Japanese cat-friendly way.
GranSky Studios — GranSky Studios makes good stories as well as animations which all ages can enjoy. GranSky Studios brings light of dream and hope to people worldwide through our production.

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

Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
RENDEZ-VOUS — RENDEZ-VOUS offers a co-ownership option for vintage cars.

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, India

Portfolio highlights

G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.

At dentsu, innovation is our strength, and your growth is our mission. We help you keep up with technological changes in the digital economy.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Advertising
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

TBM Japan — TBM is a company that develops, manufactures and sells paper and plastic alternative products made from a limestone-based material known as “LIMEX”.
FIREBUG — Firebug is an entertainment startup.
IDN Media — IDN Media is the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.

Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.

Investment focus

Art, EdTech, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

OurPhoto — OurPhoto is a service that matches clients and photographers. Professional and semi-professional shooting is surprisingly high quality and reasonable.
MiRaY School — MiRaY School is an Education based company that service Gifte (! Kifte) is a service that offers a learning experience for the future of children and children.
GranSky Studios — GranSky Studios makes good stories as well as animations which all ages can enjoy. GranSky Studios brings light of dream and hope to people worldwide through our production.

Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Taiwan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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