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Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Artificial intelligence startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yutaka Matsuo
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $4.3M–$30M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Software $2.8M–$16M
Masao Ito
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $1.4M–$18M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion $2.8M–$28M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
2 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$28M
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Video $3.5M–$33M
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.8M
Matsuo Koichiro
Angel
2 Japan Seed Robotics, Software, Information Technology
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Sports $9M–$68M
Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting $1.2M–$62M
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Consulting, SaaS, Home Services $4.9M–$35M
Koki Yabu
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Finance, Data Mining $1.7M–$3M
Taro Fukuyama
Angel
2 United States, Japan, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $500k–$120M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$107M
Yoshikazu Azuma
Angel
1 Japan Series A Retail, Security, Marketing
Toru Shimada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Task Management, Content $553k–$68M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Web Design $6M–$18M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming $320k–$38M
Ken Takayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Apps
Masaya Kubota
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Series B, Series A Information Technology, Information Services, Artificial Intelligence
Yusaku Maezawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series C Gaming, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
Hironari Umino
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, Beauty, Incubators
Jo Hirao
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Series B, Seed, Series C Retail, E-Commerce, College Recruiting
Masaru Tange
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
Eiko Matsumura
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Beauty, Health Care
Takami Watanabe
Angel
1 Japan Seed FinTech, Business Development, Artificial Intelligence
Shimada Tatsuro
Angel
1 Japan, Finland Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sales
Shota Iwasaki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Hiromasa Umeda
Angel
1 Japan Seed Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Alexandr Wang
Angel
1 United States, Italy, Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Yoshitsune Ido
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Robotics, Software
Thomas Wolf
Angel
1 United States, France, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Suzuki Tatsuya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Agriculture, Information Technology
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Reimu Sugita
Angel
1 Japan Medical, Marketing, Elder Care
Hiroki Nakamura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Web Design, Software, Content
Kazuhiro Fukuda
Angel
1 Japan Seed Artificial Intelligence
Takeshi Hirano
Angel
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
Keisuke Tomimatsu
Angel
1 Japan Angel CRM, Big Data, Analytics
Hirotaka Matsuoka
Angel
1 Japan Pre-Seed Consulting, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Hiroto Furuhashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Ken Honda
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Agriculture, Business Development
Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Corporate Round Fashion, Software, Advertising
Paul Rosenberg
Angel
1 Japan, United States Series A Music, Apps, Logistics
Hiroki Kamatsu
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sales, Analytics, Data Management
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Yutaka Matsuo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

1997 Graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. In 2002, he completed the doctoral program at the same graduate school. Ph.D. (Engineering) He was a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology since the same year. After working as a visiting researcher at Stanford University in August2005, Associate Professor of Technology Management Strategy, Institute of Research, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2007. Co-Representative, Associate Professor, Global Consumption Intelligence Donation Course, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University. Professor from 2019, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Engineering, Department of Technology Management Strategy. He specializes in artificial intelligence, web mining, big data analytics. The Society of Artificial Intelligence received the Paper Award (2002), the 20th Anniversary Project Award (2006), the Field Innovation Award (2011), and the Merit Award (2013). At the Society of Artificial Intelligence, he has been a student editorial committee and an editorial committee, and vice chair/director since 2010. Chairman of Ethics from 2014 to 2018. Chairman of Japan Deep Learning Association since 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • MemoriaPet — Memoria Pet operated by Next Paradigm 2 Co., Ltd. Creates full-color 3D-printed pet figurines from a single uploaded photo. Uses AI to generate 3D models, followed by full-color 3D printing.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
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Masao Ito
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$70M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kazuomi Kaneto is the Founder & CEO of Dream Project Incubators. He previously worked at Pacifico Energy as a Founder, President & CEO. Kazuomi Kaneto attended Tsinghua University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Persistent Energy Partners — Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $7.1M–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Matsuo Koichiro
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Matsuo Koichiro - Director @ Kokopelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kokopelli — Kokopelli is a Fintech start-up company that develops the management support platform "SHARES" for small and medium-sized businesses and the AI ​​loan screening engine "FAI" (* 2) that enhances credit for financial institutions.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Local, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$62M; Angel $14M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
  • H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, SaaS, Home Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $4.9M–$17M; Series A $24M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $1.7M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobcast Group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
  • SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
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Taro Fukuyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Taro Fukuyama is Co-Founder and CEO of Fond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jinba
  • Wayco — Wayco offers AI software that automates client intake and case workflows for law firms using voice and referral intelligence processing.
  • AgentMail — AgentMail provides an API-first email platform that enables AI agents to send, receive, and manage emails with automation and analytics.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$107M; Series B $5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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Yoshikazu Azuma
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Yoshikazu Azuma - Representative Director and CEO @ TWO

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Security, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .
  • W Tokyo — W TOKYO is a content production company that offers the latest and highest quality solutions by multiplying its own original content and solutions, centered on women, using the know-how cultivated in the Tokyo Girls Collection as a weapon .
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$38M; Angel $320k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Masaya Kubota
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Masaya served as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays a tech banker handling various M&A and financing transactions for wide range of domestic and international technology companies. Throughout his career as an investment banker, he has consistently been covering internet and media sector based in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and New Yorkoffice, and has handled 50+ corporate finance transactions involving various corporates ranging from venture company to large public enterprise. He joined WiL as a Partner and one of the founding member in 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Information Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Next Web Capital — Global blockchain and Web3 accelerator based in Tokyo and Singapore
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Yusaku Maezawa
Angel · Mihama, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Yusaku Maezawa is a Founder of Zozotown.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
  • Space Aviation — Space Aviation is an aerospace company that offers air taxi services, flight training, aircraft sales, and heliport development solutions.
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Hironari Umino
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hironari Umino - Chairman @ Increments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Incubators
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
  • BoostIO — MAISIN&CO makes meetings efficient. MAISIN&CO was founded in 2014.
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Jo Hirao
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Jo Hirao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, College Recruiting
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Docquity — If you're in healthcare, using Docquity is the best and easiest way to strengthen your industry knowledge and interactions, making sure you aren't left behind
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
  • Launchable — Shorter test runs, smarter test triaging, test health insights, and test failure analysis. Remove friction from the dev-test loop to iterate & ship faster.
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Eiko Matsumura
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Eiko Matsumura - President / CEO @ BASKET

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
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Takami Watanabe
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takami Watanabe is the Certified Public Accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Business Development, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaimo.ai — Zaimo's AI-driven SaaS budget planning and management software sounds like AI integration can bring significant advantages in automating tasks like tracking expenses, forecasting future spending patterns, and offering personalized budgeting suggestions.
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Shimada Tatsuro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shimada Tatsuro

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sales
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuku — fuku specializes in software development and sales services.
  • Crediation — Crediation is a digital finance provider that provides small and medium-sized businesses with complete access to financial services to build their enterprises by providing seamless mobile lending experiences. is a stock finance facility focused on helping business owners receive the capital they need to refill their enterprises through convenient,inexpensive, and sustainable loans.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Shota Iwasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shota Iwasaki

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Hiromasa Umeda
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiromasa Umeda - Representative Director and CEO @ Medical note

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
  • Ostance — Ostance is a group that moves the world in all kinds of entertainment.
  • Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
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Alexandr Wang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Alexandr Wang is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Board of Directors of Scale AI. Alexandr Wang attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
  • Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.
  • Volantis — Volantis is currently operating in stealth mode.
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Yoshitsune Ido

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • Dots for — Welcome to Dots for Inc.
  • Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.
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Thomas Wolf
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Thomas Wolf is the Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face. He previously worked at Cabinet Plasseraud as a European Patent Attorney. Thomas Wolf studied at Pierre and Marie Curie University studying Statistical / Quantum Physics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Umony — Umony offers software solutions and services for banks.
  • Mirelo AI — Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent.
  • Corma — Corma is the platform to manage all your software apps, automate access management and cut software costs.
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Suzuki Tatsuya
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

1985. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. In 2008, he engaged in new business support and venture support for large companies at Inspire Co., Ltd. In 2011, he was appointed director of UXConsulting company wacul. In 2012, he was appointed director of giftee.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Agriculture, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Reimu Sugita
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

More than 5 years professional firm experience as a consultant with strong focus on healthcare industry Proven track records in top-tier strategic consulting firm with broad experience of Japanese/global pharmaceutical and hospital projects As an ophthalmologist, has clinical perspective as well as business perspective and can incorporate bothon solving issues in healthcare industry

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Marketing, Elder Care
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 3Sunny — 3Sunny is a company which helps in solve medical care issues so that everyone can feel at ease. The company solves the problems of people in the field while utilizing technology, and create a reliable society that will eventually reach the desired end. 3Sunny was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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Hiroki Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web Design, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Kazuhiro Fukuda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kazuhiro Fukuda is an entrepreneur supporter/angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
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Takeshi Hirano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takeshi Hirano - Auditor (External) @ Morpho

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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Keisuke Tomimatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Keisuke Tomimatsu is the Co-Founder at ABEJA. Keisuke Tomimatsu attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Big Data, Analytics
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.
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Hirotaka Matsuoka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hirotaka Matsuoka is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AIONA — AIONA uses AI to produce high-quality products and provides everyone with access to knowledge.
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Hiroto Furuhashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiroto Furuhashi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Ken Honda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Ken Honda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Agriculture, Business Development
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Chai — Chai empowers small businesses centered on EC. It provides end-to-end e-commerce services that everyone can enjoy and continue to use in order to unlock the great potential of Japan's many small businesses.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
  • AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Paul Rosenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Paul Rosenberg is currently the CEO of Def Jam Recordings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Logistics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargo — Ara Screens is a digital out of home network solution provider, DOOH smart signage operator, and the world's leading car-top and in-car advertising placement provider for Rideshare & Taxi.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
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Hiroki Kamatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiroki Kamatsu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sales, Analytics, Data Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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Artificial Intelligence Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 91 deals from 137 investors.

137
investors
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
91
deals
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
$13M
median round
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
2%
lead investors
lead at least one round
51%
Seed
most common funding stage

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