Top 15 B2B Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Tatsuya Kumamoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Yuta Sotoike
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Shogo Kawada
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Apps | $360k–$14M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Information Technology, Travel | $700k–$75M |
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Hiroshi Shigematsu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Junta Suzuki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Nobuo Koike
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Hana Enomoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Ryo Takao
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | B2B, Sales, Organic | |
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Kaoru Hosoda
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Nao Hattori
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | |
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Tadashi Masuoka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Medical, Health Care, Home Health Care | |
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps | $278k–$30M |
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Takuto Kudo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Advice, Finance, Consulting | |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $455k–$30M |
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Tatsuya Kumamoto is a Partner Success Team member at Minna no Shashoku Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Yuta Sotoike is the Representative Director, West India Company Co., Ltd
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Spider Labs — Spider AF is an ad fraud detection tool that detects, blocks, and protects web advertisements from fraudulent clicks and conversions. Advertisers can easily detect fraudulent activity across published ads using centralized fraud management and advanced automation. Spider AF provides complete transparency in digital advertising, allowing advertisersto track ad placement, identify fraudulent behaviors, and analyze clean - fraud-free data.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $700k–$30M; Series A $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Hiroshi Shigematsu is the President and CEO of MIRAIS Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Junta Suzuki is the ector and Evangelist at Minna no Shashoku Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Nobuo Koike is a Senior Managing Director at Japan Food Delivery.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Hana Enomoto is an Operations Team member at Minna no Shokudo Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Ryo Takao
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- Industry: B2B, Sales, Organic
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Torihada — Torihada is a creative firm specializing in influencer marketing, creating content, and digital marketing.
- Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Kaoru Hosoda is an Outside Director at Minna no Shashoku Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nao Hattori is a Product Team member at Minna no Shashoku Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: B2B, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
Tadashi Masuoka - President and Founder @ nippontect systems
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Home Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plusmedi — Plusmedi is the developer of MyHospital, a medical care and management app offering personal health record (PHR) solutions. The app aims to help users by reducing the time they spend at the hospital or doctor's office. MyHospital also includes features like bill payment, medication management, and online paperwork.
Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $278k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
- Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
- SPeak — SPeak is an IT services firm that operates web content and matching platforms for global talents. It operates JPort Match, which is involved in direct recruiting services. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
Takuto Kudo
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- Industry: Advice, Finance, Consulting
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReDelta — Redelta provides a technology‑enabled platform and advisory services for cross‑border mergers and acquisitions between Japan and Southeast Asia. The service operates an In‑Out marketplace that connects corporate buyers, business owners, and investors pursuing expansion or divestiture. Engagements include deal sourcing, preliminary screening,valuation viewpoints, and coordination with local professionals throughout the transaction process. Sector and country reports, market briefs, and knowledge articles support planning and investment theses. The platform centralizes mandates and opportunities and facilitates communication between counterparties to accelerate initial discussions. Consulting support also addresses partner introductions and market entry considerations linked to post‑transaction growth.
- Saola — Saola is an online Japanese language learning platform.
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
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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