Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Drone Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Canada | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Drones, Robotics, Aerospace | $319k–$15M |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $480k–$11M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $356k–$48M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $341k–$20M |
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Tech Sphere Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed | Automotive, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle | $1.2M–$3M |
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SHIKIGAKU
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Corporate Round | Automotive, Consulting, Drones | $748k–$1.3M |
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Mobility Technologies
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Security, Software | $159k–$4.7M |
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Daisaku Harada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Finance, Tourism, Automotive | |
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Medical | |
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BroadBand Tower
VC Fund
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2 | India, Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Solar, Energy, Software | |
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Mirai Creation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Robotics, Information Technology, Software | $4M–$90M |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Canada | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Energy, Software, Internet of Things | $915k–$96M |
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Litalico
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $447k–$14M |
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JapanTaxi
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Software, Automotive, Taxi Service | |
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Innovation Engine
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Spain | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $663k–$85M |
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T-Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Web3, Music, Blockchain | $1.7M–$2M |
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DMM.com
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Corporate Round, Seed | Content, Media and Entertainment, B2C | $90k–$33M |
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Yamaha Motor
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, United States | Series B, Series A, Corporate Round | Transportation, Robotics, Software | $820k–$1.6B |
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Apps, Internet | $731k–$28M |
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Nobuyuki Idei
Angel
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1 | Japan, France, United States | Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Internet, Manufacturing | $1.8M–$31M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.4M–$45M |
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Toru Yoshikawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series B | Internet, SNS, Software | |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $275k–$41M |
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JR West Innovations
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $270k–$132M |
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CGV FoF
VC Fund
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1 | Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$15M |
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K24 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Cayman Islands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$5M |
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Z Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Drones, Robotics, Automotive | |
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Eric Kwan
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$21M |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $740k–$47M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $255k–$30M |
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Sojitz
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Corporate Round | Health Care, Medical, Software | $454k–$64M |
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KDDI
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series A, Series B | Mobile, Software, Internet | $2.8M–$209M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting | $90k–$7.1M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$71M |
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Yuya Taketani
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Apps, News, Mobile | |
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Scott McNealy
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Analytics, Information Technology | $950k–$234M |
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VTF Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Fashion | $195k–$18M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $1M–$2B |
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Tokyo Century
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Transportation, Manufacturing | $90k–$152M |
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SunBridge Global Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Robotics | $350k–$14M |
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Dave McClure
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $159k–$30M |
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Quanta Computer
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Israel | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor | $4.8M–$839M |
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Legend Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Marketing, Recruiting, CRM | $1.1M–$5M |
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Shintaro Tabata
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sharing Economy, Audio, Content | |
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CatcherVC
VC Fund
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1 | Hong Kong, Singapore, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Web3 | $1M–$14M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology | $1.5M–$213M |
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Content, Medical, Task Management | $120k–$113M |
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Mitsubishi Electric
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Israel | Series A, Corporate Round | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $4.4M–$524M |
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ESM Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Hardware, Software, Automotive | ||
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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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:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $448k–$7.1M; Series A $319k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $947k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $480k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $549k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M 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.
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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $356k–$48M; Series A $2.5M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M 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.
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: 373
- Round size: Seed $341k–$10M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024
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.
TechSphere backs Deep Tech startups with entrepreneurial DNA, Silicon Valley experience, and venture studio expertise.
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- Industry: Automotive, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lean Mobility — Lean Mobility is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that manufactures and supplies electric motorcycles and motorcycle parts.
SHIKIGAKU is an organization management theory based on a unique theory focusing on the behavior of thinking.
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- Industry: Automotive, Consulting, Drones
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $748k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
- Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
- AROUSAL Tech. — AROUSAL Tech is a consulting company that offers a wide range of AI consulting services. It provides digital training, AI reskilling, AI consulting, and AI integration services.
Mobility Technologies provides vehicle allocation systems for taxi operators.
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- Industry: Content, Security, Software
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $159k–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Otta — Otta is a company that offers IoT-based monitoring services with a vision of “monitoring services for social infrastructure”.
- DennoKotsu — Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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- Industry: Finance, Tourism, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
- Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
- Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
BroadBand Tower supports IoT (internet of things) through its advanced technological capabilities.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DennoKotsu — Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service
- igrenEnergi — igrenEnergi profiled in Economic Times - igrenEnergi's 'packetization technology' boosts solar production. Read MorecloseigrenEnergi, Inc. is a US HQ company with its India offices in Mumbai and Bangalore . The company’s mission is to ‘Maximize economic benefits of solar energy using technology innovation’.IgrenEnergi iscreating disruptive products to optimize energy generation, conversion, storage as well as smart grid interactions. The patented ‘Energy Packetization Architecture’ provides the underpinning technology for dramatically improved performance per unit cost.
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Browse database — It's Free!The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.
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- Industry: Robotics, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series A $4M–$90M; Series B $5.4M–$69M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ubiden — Ubiden provides Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things mobile network services. The company develops applications for electric vehicle charging services.
- Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
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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- Industry: Energy, Software, Internet of Things
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$14M; Series B $3.7M–$96M; Venture - Series Unknown $915k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.1M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- TWO — TWO is a health and wellness company that offers innovative lifestyle solutions 2foods, a line of healthy and delicious food products.
- ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
- Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
LITALICO is a management school for preschools and children's classrooms. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $447k–$14M; Series B $7M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
- Atlast health — Atlast Health provides high-quality psychological care to patients through technology.
- Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
JapanTaxi is a Provider of taxi booking services designed to cater the needs of people in Japan. The company's services offer a fare calculator application if users took a taxi offline, enabling users to easily travel from one place to another.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Taxi Service
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DennoKotsu — Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series A $663k–$4.7M; Series C $2.9M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- Openverse Global — Openverse operates as a Layer 0 hub, providing a foundational framework for decentralized applications and services.
Empowering top founders and projects on TON Blockchain with strategic investments and resources.
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- Industry: Web3, Music, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
- Fireverse — Fireverse is an AI-powered musical and Web-3 platform.
- Mango Network — Multi-VM Omni-Chain Infra Network | Integrates the core advantages of OPStack & #Move | EVM & MoveVM support https://t.co/CCQMfVARnv
DMM.com Group provides digital content distribution, online rental, internet connection, manufacturing support, and solar power generation services. The company was established in November 1999 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, B2C
- Stage:Corporate Round, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $90k–$738k; Corporate Round $103k–$33M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kowro (株式会社) — KOWRO is an AI entertainment startup studio that builds entertainment experiences using generative AI, focusing on AI-powered character chat services and AI translation to export Japanese entertainment content globally. The company was established as a new entity following the restructuring of Algorithmatic Co., Ltd., a DMM Group company, andoperates with a philosophy of launching multiple projects and focusing on profitable ones while exiting unprofitable ventures.
- MyAnimeList — Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
- Algomatic Dynamics — Algomatic Dynamics seeks to remove friction between humans and machines, envisioning a future in which robots integrate effortlessly into society.
Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.
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- Industry: Transportation, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$1.6B; Series B $6.7M–$88M; Corporate Round $820k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Joyride — Joyride powers the largest global network of micromobility operators. They offer turnkey software solutions for dockless bike-share and electric scooter operators. Their platform includes a white-label mobile application for end-users and a web-based dashboard for fleet operators. They currently power customers in 100-plus markets worldwide, andtheir management software enables an any-sized business to launch their fleet within 24 hours and seamlessly scale their operations from five to 500,000-plus vehicles.
- River — Empowering people, improving lives.
- eve autonomy — eve autonomy is an autonomous transportation service that offers logistics solutions utilizing the latest technology for society.
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $804k–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $731k–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Spike Studio — Spike Studio Inc., established in November 2023, is a Tokyo-based company specializing in generative AI and large language models. Their mission is to enhance Japan’s labor productivity tenfold by integrating advanced AI solutions into client operations and services. The company offers customized AI solutions, system integration, data analysis,predictive modeling, and training programs to help clients leverage generative AI effectively. Co-founded by CEO Shigeru Kuroyanagi and COO Hirohide Sano, Spike Studio aims to address challenges such as declining international competitiveness, an aging population, and labor shortages in Japan.
- Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
- Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
Nobuyuki Idei has served as our independent director since June 2007.Being an experienced director, Nobuyuki Idei currently also serves as director of Accenture, director of FreeBit Co, Ltd., director of Lenovo Group, and chairman of the National Conference on Fostering Beautiful Forests in Japan.Nobuyuki Idei is the founder and chief executiveofficer of Quantum Leaps Corporation, a specialist consultancy that advises private and public institutions on the changing role of technology in the 21st century.Nobuyuki Idei is also the founder and chairman of the board of Asia Innovators’ Initiative, a private non-profit organization that he established in 2011 to serve as a catalyst for social innovation in Asia by bringing together a diverse range of individuals and promoting knowledge sharing.Nobuyuki Idei was chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation from 2000 to 2005, chief corporate advisor from 2005 to 2007, and chairman of the advisory board from 2007 to 2012.Prior to that, Nobuyuki Idei held a range of leadership positions at Sony including general manager of the audio division, senior general manager of the home video group, and president and representative director.Nobuyuki Idei has also served in a number of other advisory positions including as counselor to the Bank of Japan, member of Japan’s national IT Strategy Council, and vice-chairman of Nippon Keidanren.Nobuyuki Idei received a bachelor of science degree in economics and politics from Waseda University in Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pyrenee — Pyrenee provides traffic data collection and analysis in addition to developing, producing, and selling AI driving aids. The addition of an AI driving assistance system to existing vehicles. It improves safe driving and reduces traffic accidents as a capable driver's assistant.
- Antescofo — Antescofo is the mariage of world-class R&D and Business endeavours. Their technology is the result of 7+ years of R&D in the world’s largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology, IRCAM in Paris, and public experience with the most important musicians and orchestras around the world. The principle? Through Intelligent MachineListening, they recognize how humans perform music in real-time and use that information to synchronize content and provide an immersive experience! Antescofo was incorporated in July 2016 and based in Paris, France.
- Stake Technologies — Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
- AOI Biosciences — AOI Biosciences is a biotechnology company that creates testing and drug discovery businesses.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Toru Yoshikawa - CEO @ Mybest
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- Industry: Internet, SNS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- TieUps — TieUps develops and operates SNS integrated marketing services.
- Seibii — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 310
- Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $616k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
- 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.
- Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.
JR West Japan Group, they will utilize innovation based on external technologies and know-how to realize sustainable operation of the railway and expansion of business creation, contributing to the revitalization of areas including the West Japan area.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9.3M; Series B $270k–$132M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
- Torihada — Torihada is a creative firm specializing in influencer marketing, creating content, and digital marketing.
- Experisus — Experisus provides Website production, development and management, and software.
CGV FoF is an Asia-based Fund of Funds (FoF) that focuses on investments in Crypto Fund and Crypto Studio. CGV FoF is composed of family funds from Japan, Korea, and China's mainland and Taiwan, with headquarters in Japan and branches in Singapore and Canada.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GAEA — GAEA is a decentralized artificial intelligence training network and data infrastructure platform focused on building a comprehensive multimodal emotional database.
- Voran — Voran is a decentralized computing platform that develops an AI compute and intelligence ecosystem.
- Fortune Protocol — Fortune Protocol brings the age- old tradition of fortune cookies to the modern prediction market.
K24 Ventures is a investment firm.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Cayman Islands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GAEA — GAEA is a decentralized artificial intelligence training network and data infrastructure platform focused on building a comprehensive multimodal emotional database.
- LSP Finance — Decentralized Liquidity/Yield-Asset Exchange. Elevate Staking, Maximize Earnings, Capture the Next Alpha
- Fortune Protocol — Fortune Protocol brings the age- old tradition of fortune cookies to the modern prediction market.
3D Systems has the largest portfolio of 3D Printers. We offer 3D Printing solutions for manufacturing, prototyping, casting, dental and more.
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- Industry: Drones, Robotics, Automotive
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Treinta — Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools.
- Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
- Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $740k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$43M; Series B $3.3M–$47M
- 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!
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $255k–$7.1M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sojitz is operates as a general trading company. The company exports built-up vehicles; assembles, manufactures, and sells local vehicles; and sells automobiles and motorcycle components, commercial aircraft, defense and related equipment, business jets, tires, surface-mounting machines, bearings, oil, natural gas, LNG, petroleum products, nuclearfuels, and nuclear power-related equipment and machinery.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Series A $932k–$64M; Corporate Round $454k–$3.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $514k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
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- Ripplr — Ripplr is a full-stack tech distribution and logistics player that offers data-driven analytics and plugs and play system.
- Tacta Systems — Hand, touch, skill transfer, intelligence. Four building blocks, built as one. The bar for high-value work. Tacta is mastering them all.
- Boldsack Media — Boldsack Media is a brand that offers a range of marketing services aimed at helping businesses build their online and offline presence. It appears their expertise lies in brand strategy, digital marketing, creative development, and media solutions. Here’s a breakdown of what Boldsack Media offers:Creative Strategy – They design bespokemarketing strategies that align with a brand's goals and make its message stand out. Digital Marketing – Services include SEO, social media campaigns, and content marketing to drive online engagement and growth. Brand Development – Boldsack works on crafting brand identities that reflect a company's values and vision. Market Research – They conduct in-depth audience and competitor analysis to aid strategic decision-making. Business Video Production – Creative, high-quality videos designed to capture and communicate brand messages effectively. Tailored Marketing Strategies – Custom marketing plans aligned with each business’s objectives. Brand Development – Building brand identity, narrative, and differentiation. Location & LeadershipLocation: Boldsack Media is based in Bhadrak, Odisha, India. Leadership: Name Of The CEO Is Sidhanta Kumar Behera .
KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
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- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$209M; Series B $2.8M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187M in 2018
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- Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Bounce — Luggage Storage Near Me 24/7 - Store your baggage in 32,000+ worldwide locations. Bounce is the BEST luggage storage app for finding and booking left luggage & lockers near you!
Yasuyuki Kin
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $90k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
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- Total investments: 334
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$71M; Series B $5.5M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019
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- 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.
Yuya Taketani - Chief Executive Officer @ Gunosy
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- Industry: Apps, News, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Gunosy — Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.
- MySherpa — MySherpa fosters a culture in which people can openly discuss mental health issues.
- Telescope — Telescope Japan Internet Company
Scott McNealy is the Co Founder & Board Member at Curriki.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
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- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $950k–$40M; Series A $6M–$152M; Series B $15M–$234M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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- Single Origin — Today, while platforms like Snowflake/GCP/AWS unlock insights and exploration, the volume of pipelines, the complexity of infrastructure, and the increasing cost of computing are overwhelming data teams. Single Origin helps data-driven organizations boost team productivity while realizing cloud cost savings. Our unique query optimizationplatform, operating between data warehouse and data tools/applications, automatically analyzes all of an organization's queries; identifies expensive and inefficient ones; then optimizes queries to be 10X simpler, faster and cheaper. We are the team that built and scaled uMetric at Uber, as well as other data infrastructure tools across snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft. More at https://docs.singleorigin.tech/
- Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
- dweva.com — System Two Security offers a platform that combines AI agents and assistants to support detection engineering teams in processing intelligence, creating new detections, and managing detection libraries. The system enables users to draft and refine detections based on threat intelligence and coverage gaps.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
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- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $195k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.5M in 2016
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- The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operatingenvironment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders.The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qupital — Qupital helps e-commerce sellers with our Fintech, bringing them a financing solution that is easier to apply, more efficient and at a lower cost.
- Anillo Vial — Ring Road Concession Company is a private infrastructure consortium tasked with designing, building, and operating a major multi-district highway project under a public-private partnership framework.
- DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform that deploys, manages, and scales applications of any size. Its infrastructure and platform-as-a-service solutions provide a no DevOps required experience, allowing developers to focus their energy on creating innovative software. By combining the power of simplicity, love for the developer community, anobsession for customer service, and the advantages of open source, DigitalOcean brings software development within the technical and economic reach of anyone around the world.DigitialOcean was formed in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Tokyo Century is a diversified leasing business (leasing, installment sales, and other financial services for IT-related equipment, industrial equipment, and other machinery and facilities). Tokyo Century has various types of financing and is an international business.
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- Industry: Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Series A $2M–$152M; Series B $3.8M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $90k–$33M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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- KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
- PXP — We are Japanese green tech startup company established in 2020 aiming to realize clean energy that can be used freely by anyone, anywhere and anytime.
- Flat Collaboration — Flat Collaboration provides neutral, white-label hotel management for a diverse portfolio of luxury and lifestyle properties.
The SunBridge Group is the premier partner for leading enterprise IT companies to enter the Japan market. Founded by Allen Miner, the founder of Oracle Japan, SunBridge has successfully partnered with Salesforce.com, Concur, SilkRoad and many others to build their Japan operations. SunBridge invests directly into startups and through its affiliatesSunBridge Global Ventures (seed investor/accelerator in Japan), and SunBridge Partners (early-stage VC in US). They support promising entrepreneurs who challenge to develop business globally in IT by providing them seed capital and vital know-how which they cultivated in the investment experiences of the past ten years. SunBridge Global Ventures is a Global Seed Accelerator established in January 2012 as part of the SunBridge Group headquartered in Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $350k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.7M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Cofame — Before you bring something to the table.Cofame is your companion to enable you to manage your contacts and meeting history, and improve your business process.New style of contact exchange: Cofame is the next generation of exchanging business card and contacts. You no longer need to bring your paper business cards. If they do not haveCofame? no worries, you can send a part of contact information over Text and Email. Unlike your current paper business card, with Cofame, you can exchange yours with number of people at a same time. Meeting management: Cofame also enables you to manage meetings, and replicate those meetings on your smartphone. When, who, and where you met these people, who's sitting where, and what you discussed. You never lose your memory.
- Gochiso — Gochiso is a restaurant reservation site that can easily support social contribution and environmental issues projects through meals at selected restaurants.
- VIVID Technologies — Vivid transforms traditional audio-only IVR, (that annoying robot voice you hear every time you call "customer service"). They have created an interactive visual experience, where all the relevant information is displayed in an intuitive way, rather than the painstaking audio IVR. Vivid presents the information in a clutter-free,simplified and more consumable manner, on your smartphones and tablets, which in turn leads to a significant reduction in traffic and dramatic efficiency gains. It also simultaneously increases the ease and effectiveness of communication between individuals and businesses' customer support department, while also cutting costs.Vivid was founded in October 2013 and is headquartered in England, United Kingdom.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $159k–$3M; Series A $673k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Tribal Credit — Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and virtual business credit cards, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful spend management platform to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program.
- Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Quanta Computer is a provider of design and manufacturing services in hi-tech markets.
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- Industry: Software, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
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- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $4.8M–$142M; Series B $12M–$839M; Series C $25M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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- Vuzix — As a pioneer in wearable computing, augmented reality, waveguide optics, and display engines, Vuzix has been delivering solutions to customers for 25 years.
- Rigetti Computing — Practical quantum computing. Delivered over the cloud.
- Quantinuum — Quantinuum, created to transform quantum computing from theoretical to commercial, is accelerating quantum computing to help solve the world's most pressing challenges.
Legend Partners mainly engages in venture investment development and business creation development. It focuses on the field of real estate, state-of-the-art technology, and medical.
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- Industry: Marketing, Recruiting, CRM
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
- Mantra — MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology.
- 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.
Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line
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- Industry: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations, the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from favorite voices. As it enters the age of IoT, interfaces have begun to evolve into seamless forms, such as AR, that allow to access information without stopping daily lives, but in this era,it has focused on the ear.
- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
- Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.
CatcherVC is an investment fund dedicated to blockchain.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- PeakAI — AI-powered crypto distribution OS. From TikTok to everywhere. Peekaboo early signals. Spark micro-intel. Turn attention into capital.
- Neosoul — NeoSoul uses an open architecture with autonomous agents operating under user-defined constraints to link agent intelligence, deterministic capital controls, and verifiable market execution.
- Superpower — the economy layer where agents make money
MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.
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- Industry: Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$100M; Series B $13M–$26M; Series C $36M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WOTA — Human history is the history of our relationship with water. Water gave rise to our civilizations. Water has nourished people's livelihoods. This means that humans need water supplies, such as rivers and lakes, to survive. At WOTA, we desire to remove every limitation we have in relation to water. By integrating small water systems into the“big water infrastructure” of the past, we can achieve a more creative and sustainable way of life. That is our belief. In cities and deserts, remote islands, and outer space. We imagine a future where water is freely available to all people. Our work will always continue.
- Gaxi — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.
- EUV Photon — EUV Photon is an irradiation services company that conducts processing, evaluation, and measurement of materials for EUV lights.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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- Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$85M; Series B $120k–$113M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation manufactures and sells electric and electronic equipment used in energy and electric systems, industrial automation, information and communication systems, electronic devices, and home appliances. It serves customers in Japan and internationally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Series A $4.4M–$40M; Corporate Round $33M–$524M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZutaCore — The ZutaCore waterless direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions is a smart, sustainable alternative to conventional air and water cooling for data centers.
- Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
- LuMing Robotics — LuMing Robotics is a developer of intelligent robots. LuMing Robotics focuses on the field of embodied intelligent robots, and its business covers intelligent robot R&D and sales, artificial intelligence algorithm development, etc.
ESM is a Consultation and Education of software development technologies.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Automotive
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- APTJ — Automotive Platform Technology Japan (APTJ) primarily engages in the development, sale, and licensing of automotive software and hardware products. It was founded on September 16, 2015.
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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
- Omnis — OMNIS
- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
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