Top 20 B2B Angel Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Shogo Kawada
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $182k–$14M |
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Christine Herron
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Social Media, Personalization | $1.3M–$21M |
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Takao Ozawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate, Information Technology | $20k–$71M |
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Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel
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1 | Japan, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Finance, Internet | $1.3M–$14M |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | $77k–$2.8M |
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Maneesh Arora
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps | $450k–$1.7M |
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Richard Chen
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, Software, Apps | $630k–$13M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Software | $137k–$19M |
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps | $35k–$2M |
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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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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 | B2B, Medical, Health Care | |
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Takuto Kudo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | B2B, Advice, Finance | |
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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, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $182k–$14M; Angel $254k–$709k
- 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.
Christine Herron is an early-stage investor and diversity advocate, and co-leads the Intel Capital Diversity Fund while leading investments in early-stage companies. She is responsible for diversity investing across Intel Capital sectors, to support technology companies founded or run by women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ, or veterans. AtIntel, Christine's direct portfolio includes 500 Friends (ACQ: Merkle), betaworks, Brit Media, E la Carte, Funders Club, Goldbely, Jelli, Movable Ink, SmartZip, Storenvy (ACQ: OpenSky), Two Bit Circus, and Yummly (ACQ: WHR), and Intel Education Accelerator companies Comprendio, Immersed Games, Sutori, and Vidcode.Previously, Christine was an investor with seed stage venture fund First Round Capital, working with Better Finance, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction (ACQ: Sprinklr), Mint (ACQ: INTU), and Xobni (ACQ: YHOO). At Omidyar Network, she developed the Media and Web 2.0 practice strategy and led deals such as Common Sense Media and Socialtext.At Geocapital Partners, Christine focused on early Internet and network technology, leading Series A funding for AXON Networks (ACQ: 3COM), D-Vision (ACQ: ADSK), FocusVision (MBO), Netcom (IPO: NETC), and ViaGrafix (IPO: VIAX). Christine was also a founder or early employee at GiftWorks (ACQ: FrontStream), Mercury2, and NetObjects (IPO: NETC).Christine earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Columbia University. She is a founding advisor or mentor to 500 Startups, Bullpen Capital, and StartX, and serves on Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Board of Directors. She is active on @christine and a frequent speaker.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Social Media, Personalization
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $10M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roominate — Playing with the W77 online game site can certainly produce crazy jackpots to riches
- Soldsie — Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.
- Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
Takao is the former CEO of YJ Capital. He is also the President of Shopping Company at Yahoo Japan. Prior to Yahoo, he founded Bizseek, Inc. in 1999 which was acquired by Rakuten, Inc. in 2001. He joined Rakuten after the acquisition and was the Corporate Officer in charge of auctions. During his career in Rakuten, he was engaged in projects suchas formation of Rakuten Eagles. He left Rakuten in 2006 and founded Ozawa Research Institute where he enhanced business in areas such as investments to start-up companies and consulting. In 2011, he founded Crocos, Inc. which was sold to Yahoo Japan in 2012. As an angel investor, he invested/founded companies like nanapi, Appgrooves, STARFESTIVAL, Crocos, Netage and many others.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $41k–$13M; Series A $20k–$19M; Series B $8.1M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango
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- Industry: Marketing, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skimlinks — Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform. Its technology automatically monetizes product links in commerce-related content
- MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
- HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $77k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $450k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Richard Chen
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $630k–$3.3M; Series A $3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farel — Run your airline on one platform. Farel unifies PSS, IBE, DCS, and B2B with a built-in AI assistant to grow direct sales and automate ops. Get a personalized demo and pricing.
- Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
- Sloika — The only contemporary photo art market. Genuine art by amazing photographers.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $215k–$19M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $137k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
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 $35k–$2M
- 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.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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.
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: B2B, Medical, 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.
Takuto Kudo
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- Industry: B2B, Advice, Finance
- 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.
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