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Top 30 Art VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

A list of 30 VC (Venture Capital) 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 30 Art VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

Investor Art Japan investments
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 2
DK Gate 2
Globe Advisors 2
Fuji Startup Ventures 2
KDDI Open Innovation Fund 1
SX Capital Japan 1
Hankyu Hanshin 1
Makers Fund 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
Future Venture Capital 1
Monex Ventures 1
Darwin Venture Management 1
East Ventures 1
Dentsu 1
XTech Ventures 1
Chishima Real Estate 1
YJ Capital 1
Shiny Chemical Industrial 1
PKSHA Capital 1
Nippon Venture Capital 1
Akatsuki Games Inc. 1
Asu Capital Partners 1
Gakken Plus Japan 1
Money Forward Venture Partners 1
B Dash Ventures 1
Morinaga 1
Cygames capital 1
ThirdwaveSolutions 1
YoStar 1
JAFCO 1
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
  • Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
  • Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
DK Gate VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
DK Gate is a joint venture company of Digital Garage and Kodansha.
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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 VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Artificial Intelligence, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Galapagos Japan — 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 VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fuji Startup Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings, specializes in startup to early stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Social Media, News
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tasogare — Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee.
  • The ROOM4D — The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company.
  • PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
KDDI Open Innovation Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
  • MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
  • Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
SX Capital Japan VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
Hankyu Hanshin VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Hankyu Hanshin operates in the urban transportation, real estate, entertainment and communications, travel, international transportation, and hotels businesses in Japan and internationally. It provides various urban transportation services linking railways, buses, and taxis; and advertising services. Hankyu Hanshin is also involved in theretailing business; development, lease, and administration of condominiums, commercial facilities, and office buildings; real estate fund management; and communication and media businesses, such as information services business, and broadcast and communications business. Moreover, it engages in the sports businesses, including professional baseball, Hanshin Koshien stadium, and related businesses; and stage businesses comprising Takarazuka Revue and related businesses. Further, Hankyu Hanshin is involved in the provision of travel and international transportation services, as well as ownership and management of hotels. It operated 46 hotels with 10,000 rooms as of March 31, 2018. Hankyu Hanshin began operation in 1907. It has its headquarters in Osaka in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • Favy — Favy is a platform that enables businesses such as restaurants and beauty salons to launch subscription services.
  • Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Makers Fund VC Fund
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Modrinth — Rinth's goal is to provide creators with an easy to use and functional platform where their work can be experienced, downloaded, and shared by gamers worldwide. We aim to turn the hobby of modding games to a stable career.
  • Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
  • Neon Koi — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Monogusa — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
  • Counter Culture Company — Counter Culture Company is an online platform that offers K-pop dance classes ranging from beginner to professional levels.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • 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.
  • ORENDA WORLD — ORENDA focuses on developing high-definition 3D simulation systems that apply gamification and real-time rendering technology.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, 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
  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Darwin Venture Management VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Taiwan, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
  • Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
  • Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
  • Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.
Dentsu VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
At dentsu, innovation is our strength, and your growth is our mission. We help you keep up with technological changes in the digital economy.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Advertising
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • TBM — 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 enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.
  • IDN Media — IDN Media is the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
  • Samansa
  • Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.
Chishima Real Estate VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Chishima Real Estate engages in a range of business including real estate, aircraft leasing, and regional revitalization activities.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, Medical, Parking
  • Funding Round, Series D
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
  • Kringle Pharma — Kringle Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops pharmaceutical products based on its research on hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and NK4. Its HGF has the regenerative healing ability in regard to liver cells, as well as various cells and organs; and NK4 is a bi-functional molecule, which inhibits the invasion and metastasis of tumorcells as an HGF-antagonist, as well as possesses antiangiogenic activity. The company’s pipeline includes recombinant human HGF for the treatment of acute renal failure, skin ulcers, and CNS diseases; and recombinant human NK4 and NK4 gene drugs for cancer therapy. Kringle Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Toyonaka, Japan.
YJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
Shiny Chemical Industrial VC Fund · Kaohsiung, T'ai-wan, Taiwan
Shiny Chemical Industrial is a production and sales company for purity solvents used in semiconductors, flat-panel displays, photoresist manufacturing, packaging testing, and light-emitting diodes. They provide logistics management and professional services to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Graphic Design, Digital Marketing
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • GAZAI — GAZAI is a design company that provides image generation solutions, anime, and cartoon design services.
PKSHA Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are a venture capital firm accelerating the innovation and the algorithm transformation of existing industries with artificial intelligent technology.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, South Korea, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Carebell — Carebell operates a digital care system that combines 24-hour real-time monitoring and emotional care to address safety issues for single-person elderly households and the elderly living alone.
  • MetaSensing — MetaSensing specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced attachable Raman sensors, designed to provide precise, real-time chemical and molecular analysis across a wide range of applications, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Upward — UPWARD is highly by linking CRM · schedule map / location information, is a cloud service for the visiting business of field sales easier. Field salespersons who have many customers and who are out of the office feel that it is difficult to grasp all customers to Kampek and measure the timing of visits no matter how memorable they are.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
Akatsuki Games Inc. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
Asu Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
Gakken Plus Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.
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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.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • 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.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, 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.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Morinaga VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
Cygames capital VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Cygames capital is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, IT Infrastructure
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ichirou — Ichirou provides digital senior care support services to connect elderly people with caretakers. It offers caretaker services for different types of support, including housework, hospital care, nursing, hospital and doctor visits, and shopping assistance.
  • Yoriso — Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”.Yoriso was founded in 2009 and isheadquartered in Tokyo.
  • Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
ThirdwaveSolutions VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
ThirdwaveSolutions is a network, system integration, outsourcing and information equipment selling company.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Video, UX Design
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
YoStar VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
YoStar is an application that facilitates the adjustment of a telescope towards a space object.
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Portfolio highlights
  • Thinkr — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
JAFCO VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
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