Top 50 Artificial Intelligence VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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28 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $2.7M–$553M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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26 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$369M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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24 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$369M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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22 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | $4.5M–$425M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.2M–$255M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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19 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$298M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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18 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $628k–$624M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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17 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $414k–$99M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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16 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $649k–$38M |
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
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14 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$142M |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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14 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3.1M–$85M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $788k–$68M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $429k–$500M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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12 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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12 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$71M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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9 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.9M–$142M |
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MIRAISE
VC Fund
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9 | Japan, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting | $383k–$14M |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$142M |
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Deep30
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Content | $2.1M–$156M |
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $659k–$5.6B |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, India | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology | $6.6M–$3B |
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$326M |
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Japan Post Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, Turkey | Series B, Series A | Marketing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$765M |
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Boost Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate | $316k–$900M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment | $645k–$89M |
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.1M–$198M |
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Mint
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Consulting | $283k–$57M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $7.1M–$638M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$369M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | $4M–$283M |
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Drone Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Drones, Robotics, Aerospace | $2M–$213M |
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, Medical, Health Care | $4M–$510M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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6 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $746k–$170M |
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Vector
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Corporate Round | Software, Internet, Marketing | $1.5M–$43M |
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Globe Advisors
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | SNS, Content, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$156M |
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing | |
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Hakuhodo DY Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Australia, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology | $3.5M–$156M |
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Content | $1M–$600M |
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Robotics | $5M–$369M |
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $2M–$553M |
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Miyako Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $5.6M–$3B |
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Miraidoa
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $933k–$125M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Medical | $3M–$269M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Internet | $679k–$142M |
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $746k–$652M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$64M |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, France, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Software, Task Management, Internet | $3.1M–$71M |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Series B, Seed | Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, India, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Internet, Software | $10M–$213M |
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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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 439
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
- LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
- Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 501
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
- 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.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 538
- Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
- ChromaCode — ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics. It leverages patented mathematical methods and algorithmic enhancements to enrich signal processing from life science instrumentation. The company uses this to extract new information on biochemistry reactions and substantially increase the performance capabilities of today’sgold-standard biochemical assays at a very low cost.ChromaCode was founded in 2012, ChromaCode is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 513
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
- Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$23M; Series A $5M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
- Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $6.4M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
- The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $628k–$92M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
- Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $414k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
- AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 448
- Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
- Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
- Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $1M–$31M; Series A $1.9M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Hokan — hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan" which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents.
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
- Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
- Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $788k–$28M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
- Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
- Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
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- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1206
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qeeper — On-demand property maintenance across London, Edinburgh and Brighton
- Twisty — Use our character engine to make your message come alive
- EnterMeme — meme.market is where you coin the best meme
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- 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.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.9M–$142M
- 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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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $383k–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
- Yozboshi — Yozboshi is a software firm that develops accounting software along with legal compliance consulting services.
- Colega AI — Create engaging social media content every day with AI. Colega AI is your AI social media manager that helps your business grow and reach new customers.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$47M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
- Logo Labo — Logo Labo provides branding and marketing services, including brand development, formulation, IT-based branding and marketing support.
- MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series B $83M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
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- HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
- Athena Technologies — DeepCraft is an AI development company that provides a wide range of AI and data analysis services to enhance corporate competitiveness.
- Polaris.AI — Polaris.AI offers AI contract development, support and AI technology education services.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 233
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $300M–$5.6B; Debt Financing $659k–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Taxnap — Taxnap develops tax management software for freelancers.
- Kredivo Group — FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lendingspace.
- Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 258
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $48M–$3B; Debt Financing $6.6M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Drip Capital — Drip Capital is a Trade Finance company providing collateral-free post-shipment finance to Exporters and Importers with instant approvals and minimal documentation.
- UltraTech Cement — UltraTech Cement is an Indian multinational cement firm that produces and distributes gray cement, ready-mix concrete, and white cement. It serves as a home-building partner, providing a complete range of building materials and support throughout the process. It is committed to actively maintaining the environment and conserving natural resourcesfor the future, with a focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling.
- 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.
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$326M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $342M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
- Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.
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- Industry: Marketing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$133M; Series B $6.5M–$765M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
- SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
Boost Capital aids businesses in their growth.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $316k–$44M; Series A $3.7M–$900M; Series C $13M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
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- SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
- toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.
- H2 — H2 Corporation offers an automation solution called "AI Estimation" for estimating tasks.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $645k–$47M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
- Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$56M; Series B $1.8M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
- FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
- Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $283k–$28M; Series A $2.3M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
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- LiftBase — LiftBase is revolutionizing the recruiting structure using AI and social data.
- MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
- Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Series A $8.3M–$282M; Series B $7.1M–$638M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023
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- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
- Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
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- Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Round size: Series A $4M–$170M; Series B $6.5M–$283M
- 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.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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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- Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$18M; Series A $2M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2020
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- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
- Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing — JAPAN FUDO is a company that develops and manufactures new products related to wind, such as the world's most compact wind tunnel "Aero Optim" series and double propeller wind turbines.
- RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
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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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Series A $4M–$283M; Series B $6.9M–$510M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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- Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
- Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$170M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
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- Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
- Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
- Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
- CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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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- Industry: SNS, Content, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $9.9M–$107M; Series A $1.3M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- initialpoint — initialpoint develops an authentication systems for the telecommunications industry, social infrastructure, and security solution companies.
- Galapagos — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.
- Galapagos Japan — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.
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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- 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
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- 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.
Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$125M; Series B $5M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$600M; Series B $1M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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- 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.
- LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
- Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Series A $6M–$340M; Series B $5M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
- Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
- Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Series A $2M–$283M; Series B $10M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
- 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.
- UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
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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- 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 $5.6M–$118M; Series A $6.1M–$70M; Series B $99M–$3B
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
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- 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.
- VLP Therapeutics — VLP Therapeutics, LLC (VLP) was established in 2012 by seasoned biopharmaceutical veterans with mission to develop innovative medical treatment which transforms traditional vaccine and targeted antibody therapies to address global unmet medical needs. Its vision is to combat the 21st century global public health problems through revolutionary nextgeneration i-αVLP (inserted alpha VLP) Technology. The company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland
- XFOREST Therapeutics — xFOREST Therapeutics develops a drug discovery platform that targets RNA structures.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $933k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
- FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
- Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Series A $3M–$85M; Series B $7.7M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $679k–$26M; Series A $4M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
- digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.
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- 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 —
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
- pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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- Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Z-Works — "Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave.
- NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- Batton — Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted.
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Series A $11M–$170M; Series B $10M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
- 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.
- Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
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