# Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Japan in June 2026 ## Drone Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace 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. ## XTech Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## BroadBand Tower - Type: VC Fund - Location: Uchisaiwaicho, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Automotive, Taxi Service BroadBand Tower supports IoT (internet of things) through its advanced technological capabilities. ## Mobility Technologies - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Automotive, Taxi Service Mobility Technologies provides vehicle allocation systems for taxi operators. ## Lifetime Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments. ## SHIKIGAKU - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Corporate Round - Focus: Automotive, Consulting, Drones SHIKIGAKU is an organization management theory based on a unique theory focusing on the behavior of thinking. ## Daisaku Harada - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Tourism, Automotive Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University. ## Okinawa Development Finance Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Medical, Nursing and Residential Care Okinawa Development Finance Corporation provides policy-based financial services. ## Toru Yoshikawa - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series B - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Toru Yoshikawa - CEO @ mybest Japan ## Quanta Computer - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taoyüan, T'ai-wan, Taiwan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics Quanta Computer is a provider of design and manufacturing services in hi-tech markets. ## Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Information Technology 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. ## Nippon Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical 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. ## STRIVE - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 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. ## Incubate Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce 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. ## T-Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Web3, Music, Blockchain T-Fund offers both token and equity investments to fuel the development of groundbreaking technologies and applications. Its mission is to drive the growth of the TON Blockchain and attract more users into the ecosystem. ## Nobuyuki Idei - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Manufacturing 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. ## Hidetoshi Takano - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Content 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. ## Mirai Creation Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Robotics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Suzuki Tamon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Automotive Suzuki Tamon ## SUKOYAKA HOLDINGS - Type: VC Fund - Location: Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, Mobile Apps, Restaurants SUKOYAKA HOLDINGS is a mental and physical health care service provider. ## Legend Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketing, Automotive, Enterprise 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. ## JapanTaxi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Automotive, Taxi Service 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. ## ANRI - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups. ## KDDI - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Software, Internet 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. ## Yasuyuki Kin - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning Yasuyuki Kin ## Nagatsuka Masayoshi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Automotive Nagatsuka Masayoshi ## JR West Innovations - Type: VC Fund - Location: Osaka, Osaka, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Apps 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. ## TOKAI-SOFT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive Tokai Soft develops a variety of businesses as an engineering company. They introducing the educational system that supports your career development. They support a core systems, manufacturing execution systems, and peripheral subsystems required for linking the management system side and the site. ## ITOCHU Technology Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## Ryugin research Institute - Type: VC Fund - Location: Naha, Okinawa, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Automotive, Web Design Ryugin Research Institute Co., Ltd., took over its business from the Economic Research Office of the Corporate Support Department, which is the economic research division of the Bank of the Ryukyus, and became independent on June 28, 2006 in a form that further strengthened its functions.The Ryukyu Bank Research Department was the predecessor ofthe Economic Research Office, but since the foundation of the Ryukyu Bank in 1948, it has conducted various economic and industrial surveys and made proposals and proposals, etc. We have been committed to development. ## CatcherVC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Web3 CatcherVC is an investment fund dedicated to blockchain. ## DMM.com - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, E-Commerce, Machine Learning 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. ## Yamaha Motor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Transportation, Software, Robotics Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor. ## Energy & Environment Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Internet of Things, Software 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. ## B Dash Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Apps 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. ## Prime Rock VI Investment - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental, Leasing, Automotive Prime Rock VI Investment is an investment firm. ## Sojitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software 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. ## Yuya Taketani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Mobile Yuya Taketani - Chief Executive Officer @ Gunosy ## Sansei Capital Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Koto, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Content, Medical, Task Management Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services. ## CGV FoF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) 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. ## Sunny Giken - Type: VC Fund - Location: Itami, Hyogo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive Sunny Giken is a Development and sales of various devices that apply microcomputers 2. ## FujiSoft - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kanagawa, Fukushima, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive Fujisoft is one of the largest Independent IT solution vendors in Japan with strong experience in mobile technology, digital information equipment's, consumer electronics etc .As an independent IT company, Fujisoft continues to remain unique, aggressively helping build the future of ubiquitous and cloud computing everywhere, from homes tobusiness and society as a whole.FUJISOFT would like to lead the age of ubiquitous and cloud computing by expanding its operations worldwide and delivering unique technologies from each base. Fujisoft services are further divided in the following two categories: ## ESM Japan - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fukui, Fukui, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Hardware, Software, Automotive ESM is a Consultation and Education of software development technologies. ## Mitsubishi Electric - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing 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. ## K24 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Bitcoin, FinTech K24 Ventures is a investment firm. ## Tech Sphere Investments - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle TechSphere backs Deep Tech startups with entrepreneurial DNA, Silicon Valley experience, and venture studio expertise. ## Z Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Burlington, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Drones, Robotics, Automotive 3D Systems has the largest portfolio of 3D Printers. We offer 3D Printing solutions for manufacturing, prototyping, casting, dental and more. ## ANOBAKA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## Innovation Engine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Medical Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology. ## LandScape Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Web3 LandScape Capital is an investor in decentralized networks and digital assets.