300+ investors in your industry, stage, and region Get
Any industry
Artificial Intelligence
Google
EdTech
Clean Energy
Retail
Enterprise Software
Local
Platforms
Travel
InsurTech
Oil and Gas
Social Impact
Cryptocurrency
SaaS
Film
Restaurants
Photography
Payments
Organic Food
Email
Fitness
CleanTech
Energy
Health Care
Machine Learning
Agriculture (AgTech)
Marketplace
Gaming
Facebook
Blockchain
B2B
Social Network
Big Data
Video Games
Education
Wellness
Medical Device
Mobile
Construction
Automotive
Legal
Sports
eSports
Hospitality
Biotechnology
Consumer
Software
Renewable Energy
Theatre
Recruiting
Crowdfunding
Web3
Medical
Fashion
Social
Venture Capital
Infrastructure
Beauty
Celebrity
Cannabis
Climate
LGBT
Publishing
Mobile Apps
Life Science
Wine and Spirits
Food and Beverage
Music
Real Estate
Art
Sporting Goods
Digital Media
Finance
Manufacturing
FinTech
Social Media
Financial Services
Franchise
Non Profit
Mobile Advertising
Internet
Android
Biotech
Proptech
Sustainability
Hardware
Transportation
Impact
Enterprise
Community
Media (Entertainment)
Any country
Burkina Faso
South Korea
Africa
LATAM
Singapore
Brazil
Saudi Arabia
Oceania
Greece
Gibraltar
Norway
Liberia
Mexico
Taiwan
Sweden
Zambia
Puerto Rico
Tunisia
Russian Federation
Togo
Tajikistan
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
Guinea
Nepal
Iran
Kyrgyzstan
Isle of Man
Pakistan
Cameroon
Romania
Oman
Australia
Colombia
New Zealand
China
Sri Lanka
Armenia
Costa Rica
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Kenya
Cayman Islands
Kuwait
Kazakhstan
Jamaica
Marshall Islands
Luxembourg
Malta
Namibia
Mozambique
Mauritius
Nicaragua
Panama
Serbia
Uganda
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Guatemala
Moldova
Malawi
Japan
Seychelles
Botswana
United Kingdom
Canada
Ireland
South Africa
Egypt
France
Georgia
Denmark
Croatia
Hong Kong
Ghana
Iraq
Mali
Morocco
Myanmar
Latvia
Malaysia
Poland
Philippines
Portugal
Sierra Leone
Rwanda
El Salvador
Senegal
Thailand
Uruguay
Tanzania
India
Germany
United States
Indonesia
Middle East
Bermuda
Dominican Republic
Asia
Albania
Cyprus
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Spain
Europe
Angola
Argentina
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Ethiopia
Jordan
Austria
Azerbaijan
Ecuador
Bulgaria
Bahrain
Bahamas
Faroe Islands
Jersey
Estonia
Bolivia
Algeria
Belize
Belarus
Finland
Italy
Hungary
Israel
Grenada
Honduras
Iceland
Cambodia
Lithuania
Liechtenstein
Lebanon
Mongolia
Slovenia
Peru
San Marino
Ukraine
Vietnam
Chile
Angel Investors
VC Funds
All Investors
Download Find emails Save list
Open database

Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in Japan (July 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 $482k–$30M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Software $2.8M–$16M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Masao Ito
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $661k–$18M
Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
Taro Fukuyama
Angel
2 United States, Japan, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $500k–$10M
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
Matsuo Koichiro
Angel
2 Japan Seed Robotics, Software, Information Technology
Koki Yabu
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Finance, Data Mining $1.7M–$3M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Sports $9M–$68M
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Consulting, SaaS, Home Services $881k–$24M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
2 Japan Series A, Seed Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $3.5M–$33M
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.8M
Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting $1.2M–$62M
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
Kamata Tomihisa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Fitness, Medical, Genetics
Takahiro Maeyama
Angel
1 Japan Angel SaaS, Professional Services, Information Technology
Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
Shinsuke Mori
Angel
1 Japan Seed Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
Kensuke Murashima
Angel
1 Japan Series B, Seed, Series C Energy, Logistics, Marketing
Yusuke Ando
Angel
1 Japan Series A Content, Education, Social Media
Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Content, Fashion
Joi Ito
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Angel Internet, Software, Information Technology
Masashi Mizunaga
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Clément Delangue
Angel
1 United States, France, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Jeff Dean
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $150k–$220M
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
Access all 141 angel investors in Japan Artificial intelligence startups.

Access 48,091 investors

822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.

Browse database — It's Free!

Investor list

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Masao Ito
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Taro Fukuyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Taro Fukuyama is Co-Founder and CEO of Fond.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $5.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jinba
  • Didit — Website: https://didit.me/ Whitepaper: https://whitepaper.didit.me/ Technical docs: https://docs.didit.me/ Didit App: https://didit.me/download Business console: https://business.didit.me How can we offer free KYC:https://didit.me/blog/how-we-are-able-to-provide-free-kyc-forever Didit vs Worldcoin: https://didit.me/blog/didit-vs-worldcoin
  • Wayco — Wayco offers AI software that automates client intake and case workflows for law firms using voice and referral intelligence processing.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Matsuo Koichiro
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Matsuo Koichiro - Director @ Kokopelli

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Access 48,091 investors

822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.

Browse database — It's Free!
Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $881k–$7.6M; Series A $1.7M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ookami — Ookami provides Player, a sport media application. It is a startup that creates new value of sports by harmonizing individuals and IT technology. The company offers technology solutions, with a particular focus in financial services software, application and communication software, software as a service, and online social networking services.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Show all investments...

Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$68M; 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
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • 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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Hiromasa Umeda
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiromasa Umeda - Representative Director and CEO @ Medical note

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Access 48,091 investors

822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.

Browse database — It's Free!
Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Yoshitsune Ido

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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".

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Kazuhiro Fukuda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kazuhiro Fukuda is an entrepreneur supporter/angel investor.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Takeshi Hirano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takeshi Hirano - Auditor (External) @ Morpho

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Hirotaka Matsuoka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hirotaka Matsuoka is a individual investor.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Access 48,091 investors

822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.

Browse database — It's Free!
Hiroto Furuhashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiroto Furuhashi

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Ken Honda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Ken Honda

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Hiroki Kamatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiroki Kamatsu

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Kamata Tomihisa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Medical, Genetics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SmarTrial — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
  • Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
  • MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
Show all investments...

Takahiro Maeyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Takahiro Maeyama

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Professional Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Miletos — Miletos is the provider of AI expense scrutiny SaaS services.
Show all investments...

Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
  • 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.
Show all investments...

Shinsuke Mori
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shinsuke Mori - Joint Researcher and Technical Advisor @ LegalForce Japan

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LegalForce — LegalForce is an AI that reduces the workload while improving the accuracy of contract review .
Show all investments...

Kensuke Murashima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kensuke Murashima

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Logistics, Marketing
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Miibo — miibo is an AI construction platform that allows businesses to develop conversational AI bots for their products and websites.
  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Show all investments...

Access 48,091 investors

822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.

Browse database — It's Free!
Yusuke Ando
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

YUSUKE ANDO is a Outside Director at hachidori.

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FLIGHTS — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
Show all investments...

Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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.
Show all investments...

Joi Ito
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
  • Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++
Show all investments...

Masashi Mizunaga
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
Show all investments...

Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

Show more...

Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Show all investments...

Clément Delangue
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
  • Doubleword — From research to reality
  • Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.
Show all investments...

Jeff Dean
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
  • Onepot.ai — Onepot.ai offers automated synthesis of small molecules from basic building blocks using a unified, end-to-end process. It generates around fifty distinct compounds in a single workflow, eliminating the need for bespoke methods for each target. The platform employs modular couplings, deprotection, and streamlined purification steps to rapidlyassemble structurally diverse molecules. It supports chemistries that produce both sp²- and sp³-rich frameworks, enabling applications across pharmaceutical, materials, and probe development. By leveraging a catch-and-release purification protocol and iterative building-block assembly, Onepot.ai enables efficient production of complex small-molecule libraries.
  • Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
Show all investments...

Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

Show more...

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$107M; Series B $5M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skydrop — Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
  • Drifting in Space — Drifting in Space develops server infrastructure for designing browser-based tools. The company develops Jamsocket, a platform for building applications with session-lived backends and also publishes open-source libraries, like Spawner and Aper. Its platform aims at deploying session-lived backends technology without building infrastructure suchthat every request sent from the frontend to the backend contains all the information needed to fulfill it.The company was co-founded in 2022 by Taylor Baldwin and Paul Butler and is headquartered in New York.
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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

  • COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • CAN EAT
Show all investments...

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.

Show more...

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.
Show all investments...

Artificial Intelligence Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 95 deals from 141 investors.

141
investors
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
95
deals
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
$9.2M
median round
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
2%
lead investors
lead at least one round
49%
Seed
most common funding stage

Access all 141 angel investors in Japan Artificial intelligence startups.

Open List

FAQ

Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?

Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.

Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.

All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.

Can I download investor list?

To download the Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in Japan investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.

You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.

Can I access investor database?

To access all 141 angel investors investing in Japan Artificial intelligence startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.

Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.

The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

You can enrich with email and download the data.

Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?

Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.

What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
  • download

All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

Contact 100 investors today

Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.

Find investors — It's Free!

More investor lists

Broader lists