Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)

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• NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
• Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

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• Koska — Koska is a service that automates highly accurate cost calculation without trouble in the IoT system.
• Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
• Pocket Concierge — Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.

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• Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
• pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.

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• Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
• Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
• Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.

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• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
• Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.

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• 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
• Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
• Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.

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• Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
• FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
• Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

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• Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
• Technology 9 Labs (T9L) — T9L is India's first Startup Studio which has a complete ecosystem to evolve a startup into a success story.
• Instapay Technologies — Instapay is the only e-wallet in Malaysia to offer a corporate portal. It enables you to self-manage the salary payment process with greater visibility. It serves to streamline payroll processing within organizations while promoting finances.

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• Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
• Logo Labo — Logo Labo provides branding and marketing services, including brand development, formulation, IT-based branding and marketing support.
• MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.

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• Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
• Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.

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• Matilda — Matilda, which runs a home-cooked takeout service. Orders and payments are processed online at Matilda, and customers can pick up their daily home-cooked meals from a nearby takeout station.
• Social Interior — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
• Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.

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• Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
• Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
• Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.

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• Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
• Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.

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• Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
• Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
• The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .

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• Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
• ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
• Cellid — Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software.

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• Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
• Neocom — Neocom is an AI-Guided Selling Saas for E-Commerce
• Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.

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• ELternal — ELternal develops tourism resources for shrines and temples. Their services include business process support, sns utilisation support, and website creation for temples.
• Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
• Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.

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• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.

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• Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
• Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
• MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.

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• Figurout — Figurout is a financial firm that provides information regarding investment, dividends, stock markets and mutual funds.

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• HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
• bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
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• Ichirou — Ichirou provides digital senior care support services to connect elderly people with caretakers. It offers caretaker services for different types of support, including housework, hospital care, nursing, hospital and doctor visits, and shopping assistance.
• Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
• Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.

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• Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
• Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
• Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

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• AoyamaLab — AoyamaLab is a food and beverage EC venture that provides a welfare shopping site exclusively for employees.

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• Tryeting — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
• HelloWorld — EdTech, International Exchange between Schools
• Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.

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• VETA — VETA strives to minimize friction caused by value differences in society through cutting-edge social science research.
• Tres Alchemix — Tres Alchemix is an AI-driven biotechnology company focused on accelerating drug discovery, predicting drug efficacy, and developing novel therapeutic compounds using advanced machine learning and data-driven approaches.
• Pestalozzi Technology — Pestalozzi Technology is a development and provision of educational products in the fields of physical education and club activities.

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• Base — Personalized skincare formulated
• BEJEWEL — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
• Honest — Honest Bank is building the future of finance for Asia

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• Souco — Souco is a service that enables logistics bases to be quickly available and warehouses to be used when and where needed and souco aim to provide services that contribute to society by making logistics smooth.
• SmartDrive — SmartDrive is focused on the development of IoT technology solutions for automobiles. The company also develops a data platform that captures and analyzes big data collected from IoT devices.SmartDrive offers DriveOps, a technology solution that enables organizations to track GPS travel data of their vehicles and drivers, obtain notificationsabout vehicle inspection and repair, and track expense receipts; and DriveOn, a mobile application that enables individuals to find information related to speed, mileage, engine speed, and failures related to their driving. It develops BASE, a device that is installed on the car to obtain information for the DriveOn application.SmartDrive was founded in October 2013.
• Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

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• Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
• Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
• Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.

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• ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
• Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
• Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.

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• Rexev — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
• Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
• Okuma Diamond Device — Ookuma Diamond Device Co., Ltd. | Creating a next-generation semiconductor industry from Japan, driven by the mission to support the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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• Bloomo Securities — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
• Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
• OWNY — Manage capital, investors and treasury

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• LobbyAI — LobbyAI provides a wide range of services related to artificial intelligence, particularly around database construction and management.
• Zen Intelligence — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
• Japan Legal System Institute — Japan Legal System Institute (JLSI), our primary value is to provide products that exceed user expectations.

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• KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.
• Mysa — Mysa is a unified finance and banking platform that automates bill payments, smart banking, AI-driven accounting, expense management, and treasury services for businesses.
• NOMU — NOMU provides the personalized drinking experience with its proprietary reusable cup drink machine.

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• WorkIndia — Our Vision: Work India’s vision is to provide sustainable livelihoods for the 23.7 Cr blue-collar individuals of India and now the 120 Cr blue-collar individuals in this World.WorkIndia is a technology venture based in the mixed collar space (between white and blue-collar space) of the recruitment industry. We aim to connect the right employersto the right employees.In the mixed collar space ( bpo jobs, delivery jobs, accountant jobs, retail jobs, back-office jobs, etc.) getting jobs in thane and getting employees in thane both is a tiresome process. The mixed collar space seeks a solution that simplifies the process for both the employer side and the employee side.Our Product: We have created a mobile application for candidates to apply for the job they would like to do and for Employers who seek their desired candidates. Candidates with this app can look for a suitable job and apply for it in a single click. Rest all the work of checking the eligibility of an employee until scheduling the interview is done by our 100% automated product.
• Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
• Atomos Space — Atomos solves the last-mile problem in space by providing an in-space transportation service that lowers launch costs for satellite operators.

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• 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 an Internet Company.

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• AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
• Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
• Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.

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• Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
• Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
• AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.

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• Hokan — hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents.
• AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
• Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.

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• Fuku — fuku specializes in software development and sales services.
• Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of ​​Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
• Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.

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• 400F — 400F develops services to solve problems related to people's lives and assets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo.
• Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
• Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.

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• ByWill — ByWill creates and distributes environmental value while eventually becoming carbon neutral.
• Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.

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• OPERe — OPERe is an IT company that specializes in the development of semi autonomous hospitalization guidance solutions.

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• Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.

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• Mui Lab — Mui is an aesthetically-pleasing wooden IoT device connected to a cloud service. By accessing information through natural wood, we can rethink a new type of lifestyle.
• Cizucu — Cizucu is a stock photo community that helps creators and brands to create photos.
• Xperisus — Xperisus provides solutions to government agencies and local governments, such as support for the development of value-added experiences.

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• Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
• Greenase — greenase is a manufacturer and seller of processed agricultural products.
• EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

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• F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
• BioPhenoMA — BioPhenoMA develops an AI-powered platform for detecting ultra-trace proteins that helps accelerate new drug discovery phases.
• Spiral — Spiral is a game changer in providing autonomous drone solutions for indoor environments, most notably during non-GPS situations.

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• Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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• 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.

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• ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

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• YAGO — YAGO operates in the IT field and provides internet and software services.
• Nudge — Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.
• Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.