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Top 50 Artificial Intelligence VC Funds & Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
37 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$269M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
36 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$198M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
34 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
29 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$184M
JAFCO
VC Fund
29 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$184M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
25 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $684k–$71M
East Ventures
VC Fund
24 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $473k–$35M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
22 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $330k–$75M
ANRI
VC Fund
21 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Medical, Health Care $413k–$41M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
18 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$57M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
17 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.5M–$100M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
16 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $875k–$78M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
16 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $577k–$283M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
15 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $565k–$71M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
15 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $691k–$29M
Antler
VC Fund
14 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
13 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$213M
Deep30
VC Fund
12 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software $2.1M–$83M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
10 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $496k–$57M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $505k–$85M
Japan Post Capital
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Turkey Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing $1.3M–$283M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $558k–$17M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting $372k–$14M
UNITED
VC Fund
9 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A Apps, Software, Information Technology $645k–$43M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
8 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.3M–$142M
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $2M–$340M
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
8 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, E-Commerce $661k–$103M
Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
8 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $895k–$369M
Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Singapore Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $1.3M–$5.6B
Mint
VC Fund
8 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing $326k–$6.8M
Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
8 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $826k–$64M
Boost Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan Seed, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate $316k–$32M
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, India Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology $6.1M–$3B
DBJ Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Australia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2.7M–$184M
MIRAI SOUZOU
VC Fund
7 Japan Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Robotics, Software $938k–$184M
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $679k–$122M
Drone Fund
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Drones, Robotics, Aerospace $1.9M–$47M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
7 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Consulting $792k–$47M
Miyako Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology $750k–$354M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $458k–$30M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing $367k–$142M
STRIVE
VC Fund
6 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $800k–$142M
Vector
VC Fund
6 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $730k–$33M
KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Israel Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$553M
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Content $790k–$142M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $746k–$652M
UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Canada Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Internet of Things $2.2M–$283M
Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund
5 Japan, India, Belgium Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.8M–$170M
Globe Advisors
VC Fund
5 Japan, Switzerland Seed, Series A SNS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence $966k–$156M
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 36 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 576
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 34 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 29 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 584
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 29 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 25 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 349
  • Round size: Seed $684k–$21M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $4.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SHIFT — Shift.com of San Francisco CA serving Oakland is one of the best pre-owned dealerships in CA. Call Sales <span class='callNowClass'>855-744-3873</span>
  • Uncover Truth — UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 523
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 22 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
  • AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 269
  • Round size: Seed $413k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
  • Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$17M; Series A $2.4M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$35M; Series A $2.8M–$64M; Series B $2.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$21M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 16 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $577k–$26M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $3.1M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
  • Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $691k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 14 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2216
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
  • Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
  • Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$101M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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Deep30
VC Fund · Kuramae, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series B $11M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
  • Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
  • Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $496k–$24M; Debt Financing $536k–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 266
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$33M; Series B $1.8M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • FullDepth — FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers towitness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers to witness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • Smart Craft
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Japan Post Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$128M; Series B $6.5M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $558k–$17M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $372k–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • Packative — Platform to design and order custom packaging online
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$4.4M; Series A $868k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WAKA — WAKA is a studio that produces metaverse games and specializes in contract development for domestic businesses.
  • Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
  • Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$142M; Series B $6.7M–$340M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
  • Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$9.7M; Series A $2M–$41M; Series B $2.2M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Rimowa — Rimowa designs characters not as mere “content,” but as immersive character operating systems that integrate naturally into everyday life, creating emotionally resonant experiences that seamlessly connect digital interaction, storytelling, and real-world consumer engagement.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$32M; Series B $895k–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $342M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
  • Solafune — Solafune integrates multi-domain intelligence across space, cyber, and physical layers to create actionable, sovereign decision systems.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 90 in the past 12 months

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $150M–$5.6B; Debt Financing $1.3M–$925M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Polyuse — Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology".
  • Bank of India — Bank of India is a Nationalized bank with a presence in all the major trade centers of the world.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$3.4M; Series A $1.4M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
  • Yellow Blue — Yellow Blue develops and operates "Blue One," a next-generation AI translation service designed for professionals.
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $826k–$50M; Series A $2.2M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
  • Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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Boost Capital
VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Boost Capital aids businesses in their growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$13M; Series A $1.9M–$32M; Series C $13M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVRy — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
  • Solafune — Solafune integrates multi-domain intelligence across space, cyber, and physical layers to create actionable, sovereign decision systems.
  • H2 — H2 Corporation offers an automation solution called "AI Estimation" for estimating tasks.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $107M–$3B; Debt Financing $6.1M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Triorb — The corporate website of TriOrb Inc., revolutionizing production lines with our ball-driven omnidirectional mobility platform.
  • SoftBank — SoftBank Group Corp. (Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son) Corporate and IR site provides company information such as our company profile, an overview of the company and Group companies, as well as IR and CSR.
  • Waypoint Leasing Services — Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational backgroundtranslates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 9 in the past 12 months

DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$85M; Series B $4.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Creattura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
  • Scohia Pharma — Scohia Pharma is a biotech venture that will have both substantial research and development resources and be nimble enough to make decisions quickly, will strive to improve patient quality of life by providing patients and healthcare professionals with new therapeutic medications for renal, metabolic.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
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MIRAI SOUZOU
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

MIRAI SOUZOU operates as a venture capital firm that invests in institutional lookup and supporting projects. The Company invests in institutional research and development supporting projects, medicine, agriculture, ocean field, and other industries. Innovations and Future Creation conducts businesses in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$100M; Series B $938k–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $549M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
  • Equitas Medical Co. — Equitas Medical provides management support for clinics, including operational improvement, strategic planning, recruitment, digital transformation, and back-office administration. It supports business succession for clinic owners by providing transition options intended to maintain patient and staff continuity. The company also promotes healthcaredigital transformation through AI, cloud services, remote-care tools, hospital real-world data use, and medical department digitalization. Its services are intended for healthcare professionals, clinic owners, and healthcare organizations.
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 15 in the past 12 months

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $679k–$7M; Series A $3M–$103M; Series B $6.5M–$122M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Listie — Listie is an industrial engineering company that develops, supplies, and maintains lithium separation equipment and membranes. It is an important infrastructure resource that supports modern life, including electric vehicles, smartphones, and renewable energy storage.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
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Drone Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$18M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Triorb — The corporate website of TriOrb Inc., revolutionizing production lines with our ball-driven omnidirectional mobility platform.
  • FullDepth — FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers towitness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers to witness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.
  • Sunflower Labs — Fully autonomous AI-powered drone security with thermal imaging and real-time threat detection for commercial, industrial, and residential properties.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $792k–$28M; Series A $2.5M–$19M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
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Miyako Capital
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF). The company was founded in 2013 and based in Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan. Investment fields are: 1) Life Science, Biotechnology: Drug creation, regenerative medicine, medical beauty equipment, medical services.2) Agri-Food: Industrialization,agricultural and fishery products growth-promoting technology, specified health food, health food.3) Environment, Energy: Alternative energy, and related technologies.4) IT, Electronics: Web, mobile related devices and application, telecommunication technology, security, consumer and business oriented application, mechatronic, robot.5) New services utilizing state-of-art technology.Investment stages: Primary investment stages are initial-growth stages of seed and early. However, we aim at all growth stages and make investment in post-IPO portfolio companies as well as public companies that are related with Kyoto University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$43M; Series A $4.8M–$50M; Series B $3.7M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Mui Lab — Mui is an aesthetically-pleasing wooden IoT device connected to a cloud service. By accessing information through natural wood, we can rethink a new type of lifestyle.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$30M; Series A $1.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$16M; Series A $2.6M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dwilar — Dwilar is an AI-powered global credit platform that unifies credit data across borders. We provide instant credit assessments, global score conversion, and compliance-driven onboarding to help people access banking, rentals, and loans worldwide.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$33M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $8M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RevComm — RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management.
  • Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$43M; Series B $790k–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • JIZAIE — JIZAIE is an artificial intelligence firm that wants to combine VR, robots, and wearable computing to create solution.
  • Compass — Compass offering services in the tourism and inbound sector, including accommodation support, optional tour planning and management, kimono rentals, and tourism consulting services
  • Equmenopolis — We dispatch conversational AI agents to schools and workplaces to improve creativity and productivity.
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $746k–$580M; Series B $3.1M–$652M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
  • bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
  • WAKA
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups, 10 in the past 12 months

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$105M; Series B $3.7M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TWO — TWO is a health and wellness company that offers innovative lifestyle solutions 2foods, a line of healthy and delicious food products.
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Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$170M; Series B $10M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • RevComm — RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
  • Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.
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Globe Advisors
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Artificial intelligence startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $966k–$107M; Series A $9.8M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Iwaya Giken — Iwaya Giken manufactures and sells gas balloons, airtight cabins, and other space-travel equipment.
  • Galapagos — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.
  • Galapagos — Galapagos offers a service that uses artificial intelligence to create and refine advertising visuals, under a product called AIR Design. The company also provides development and management for smartphone applications.
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Artificial Intelligence VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 1.2k deals from 1.1k investors.

1.1k
investors
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
1.2k
deals
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
$5.7M
median round
in Japan Artificial intelligence startups
35%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage

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