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Top 50 Beauty Angel Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Beauty startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Beauty startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Content, Food and Beverage, Internet $28k–$6.2M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
2 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Internet, Content, Software $226k–$27M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $255k–$30M
Keisuke Kogure
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Beauty, iOS, Legal $123k–$2.7M
Mikuru Asakura
Angel
2 Japan Seed Beauty, Cosmetics $623k–$1.3M
Rintaro Oyaizu
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Women's
Mochiduki Yusuke
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Women's
Matsuyama Takakaz
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Women's
Hiromi Takamatsu
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Women's
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $182k–$14M
Toshi Yamamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Beauty, Health Care
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Apparel, Content $189k–$1.8M
Takeru Hiki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Health Care, Task Management
Sato Takahiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Fitness, Employment
Hayama Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Beauty, Medical
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Medical, Health Care, Fitness $2.7M–$7.1M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $64k–$36M
Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, SNS, Sales $457k–$26M
Hironari Umino
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, Beauty, Incubators
Kunihisa Miyamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Cosmetics
Kai Asakura
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Cosmetics
Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Fashion, Advertising $189k–$1.8M
Takuma Iwasa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Water, Beauty, IT Management
Takuya Tsuji
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Cosmetics
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $134k–$47M
Takato Hiroshi
Angel
1 Japan Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Legal, Beauty
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $252k–$2M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Marketing $222k–$12M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting $90k–$7.1M
Kentaro Uryu
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Soccer, Sports $49k–$4.3M
Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Agriculture, AgTech, Beauty $1M–$4.5M
Keith Yuki Isobe
Angel
1 United States, Japan, India Seed, Series C, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Apps $1M–$300M
Shunsuke Hattori
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, News, Beauty
Satoshi Ishikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Consulting, Information Technology
Eiko Matsumura
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Beauty, Security $183k–$4.5M
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content $280k–$2.6M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $90k–$14M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Content, Fashion, Finance $19k–$28M
Chikako Morimoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Marketing, Consulting $582k–$1.8M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Software, Content $179k–$36M
Sakano Atsushi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS
Hodaka Kunimoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A B2C, Beauty, Gaming $417k–$2.5M
Takuji Yoshida
Angel
1
Daisuke Shimada
Angel
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Software, Cosmetics $457k–$926k
Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
1 Japan, India Seed Food and Beverage, Task Management, Media and Entertainment $493k–$2.8M
Ryo Ishizuka
Angel
1 United States, Japan Seed, Series A SNS, AgTech, Beauty $700k–$10M
Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Fashion, Software $252k–$9.2M
Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Fashion, Software, Advertising $610k–$672k
Yuta Kikuchi
Angel
1
Genichi Tamatsuka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Cosmetics, Marketing
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $302k–$4.3M; Angel $28k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $538k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $226k–$4.3M; Angel $254k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $363k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $255k–$7.1M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Keisuke Kogure
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Mr. Keisuke Kogure serves as general partner at Mint.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, iOS, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $194k–$2M; Angel $123k–$123k; Series A $1.4M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.
  • Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
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Mikuru Asakura
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Mikuru Asakura

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $623k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Rintaro Oyaizu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Rintaro Oyaizu is a CEO at CyberAgent, Inc. He attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Medical, Women's
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi keeps creating services that encourage mental and physical harmony while pursuing safety and peace of mind. The company offers a social safety net that fully supports female employees' health concerns.
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Mochiduki Yusuke
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Mochiduki Yusuke - CEO @ MapleSystem

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Medical, Women's
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi keeps creating services that encourage mental and physical harmony while pursuing safety and peace of mind. The company offers a social safety net that fully supports female employees' health concerns.
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Matsuyama Takakaz
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Matsuyama Takakaz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Medical, Women's
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi keeps creating services that encourage mental and physical harmony while pursuing safety and peace of mind. The company offers a social safety net that fully supports female employees' health concerns.
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Hiromi Takamatsu
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Hiromi Takamatsu - Founder and CEO @ Vitamin Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Medical, Women's
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi keeps creating services that encourage mental and physical harmony while pursuing safety and peace of mind. The company offers a social safety net that fully supports female employees' health concerns.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$14M; Series A $1M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Toshi Yamamoto
Angel · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Toshi Yamamoto is an entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley as CEO of ChatWork Japan and US.In 2000, Toshi bootstrapped a business of web marketing and software sales, and made it profitable for the past 12 years.In 2012, Toshi decided to drive all the resources to focus on its own service, ChatWork, set up a US office and moved to SiliconValley. Toshi changed the company name from EC studio to ChatWork at that time.Toshi has also written three books that have been ranked as #1 of all books on Amazon.co.jp.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Apparel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $449k–$453k; Angel $189k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Takeru Hiki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Takeru Hiki - Founder & CEO @ Welby

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Health Care, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
  • Rehasaku — Rehasaku is a service that uses technology to support both medical professionals, such as physiotherapists and judo rehabilitation practitioners, and patients.
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Sato Takahiro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Fitness, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • RIZAP GROUP — RIZAP GROUP is a planning and implementation of medium- and long-term management strategy of the Group, management of business strategy execution support and business activities of Group companies.
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Hayama Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Beauty, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Senior Executive Vice President and CTO at Sony Group Corporation and President & CEO at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
  • SBX Corporation — AI R&D: Deep learning, Machine learning, Automation, Text mining. Development, customization and maintenance of software platforms for drug discovery and life science research.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $109k–$4.3M; Angel $64k–$457k; Venture - Series Unknown $537k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, SNS, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4.3M; Angel $457k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Saurus Japan — SAURUS JAPAN is an online store that sells sports supplements. They provide athletes with protein and amino acids. They provide quality raw materials and formulations with a focus on safety and security. Their nutrients serve the purpose that professionals need.
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Hironari Umino
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Hironari Umino - Chairman @ Increments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Incubators
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
  • BoostIO — MAISIN&CO makes meetings efficient. MAISIN&CO was founded in 2014.
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Kunihisa Miyamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kunihisa Miyamoto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Kai Asakura
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kai Asakura

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$453k; Angel $189k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Takuma Iwasa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Water, Beauty, IT Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
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Takuya Tsuji
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Takuya Tsuji

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$14M; Angel $137k–$1.3M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Takato Hiroshi
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Legal, Beauty
  • Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Japan Healthcare — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
  • Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
  • Legal Technology — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $252k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $222k–$12M; Angel $457k–$716k; Series A $880k–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Kentaro Uryu
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Kentaro Uryu - Legal advisor @ Adot

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Soccer, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$4.3M; Angel $49k–$457k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adot — Adot specializes in product development, service growth, branding, and PR. Its services include Branding business and sales promotion business. It also supports the challenges and reforms of companies. It is not only in the field of advertising but also in a professional team in business development and development. It aims to promote"Aesthetic-conscious management" and focus on "social significance," such as "whether the whole society will be enriched," rather than the conventional business of "just do it."It was founded on July 26, 2012, and is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • SISI — SISI company provides beauty products made from natural ingredients. They also offer a skin analysis program led by a skin expert, allowing customers to take care of their body and skin after a thorough examination. They also sell beauty products online and provide delivery.
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Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RootWave — RootWave is an electronics company that develops tools that kill weeds it enables farmers to control weeds on their farm. Its technology is an alternative substitute for herbicides and other weed control chemicals. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
  • Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
  • Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
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Keith Yuki Isobe
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Keith Yuki Isobe is an Investor, Managing Director and Member of the IC Board at DG VENTURES (AUM 600m USD).Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Geniee International Group, President and COO at Adstars and President Director at Geniee Technology Indonesia (TSE6562 A Member of SoftBank Group). Prior to that, he wasCo-Founder of Medically, Board Director and CFO of MEDCARE (exited, acquired by M3), a Next-Unicorn HealthcareTech and Co-Founder and Board Director of Waseda M&A Partners, a Startup Programmatic M&As. Contact Email Addresses: yuki-isobe@garage.co.jp (DG VENTURES)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series B $7M–$100M; Series C $7.5M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adskom — Main slot sekarang makin gampang, bro! Di Tunai188, lo bisa deposit pakai QRIS, jadi gak ribet deh. Slot Thailand di sini juga gacor abis, pasti maxwin terus! Yuk, gaskeun main di Tunai188, situs slot yang bikin lo auto kaya. Jangan sampai ketinggalan, buruan daftar sekarang!
  • Medcare — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
  • WASEDA M&A PARTNERS — APAC Startup-focused M&A and Financial Consulting Firm (Founders are all graduates of Waseda Business School, Waseda University)
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Shunsuke Hattori
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Shunsuke Hattori is the President and Director of Seven Rich Accounting.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, News, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi keeps creating services that encourage mental and physical harmony while pursuing safety and peace of mind. The company offers a social safety net that fully supports female employees' health concerns.
  • StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
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Satoshi Ishikawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Satoshi Ishikawa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Consulting, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palplat — Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform.
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Eiko Matsumura
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Eiko Matsumura - President / CEO @ BASKET

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Security
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
  • NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
  • Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$14M; Pre-Seed $272k–$622k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$28M; Angel $64k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$363k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • One Nova — One Nova is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $222k–$2.1M; Angel $179k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN is a fantasy sports developer that introduces a new type of game where the players can earn prize money by predicting the players who will play an active role in soccer and baseball.
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Sakano Atsushi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Sakano Atsushi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heartseed — Heartseed is a biotechnology research firm that specializes in the development of purified ventricular cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the treatment of heart failure. The company employs an innovative methodology that involves the creation of cardiomyocyte spheroids, small clusters of heart cells, using stem cells.These spheroids are then surgically implanted into the heart to improve its performance.
  • Matsuri Technologies — matsuri technologies is a real estate tech company that provides solutions to support private property rentals. The company's products include m2m Systems, an Airbnb management platform that helps business operators to manage their accounts, communicate with guests, automate check-ins, offer customer service, and more.
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Hodaka Kunimoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Hodaka Kunimoto is the Representative Partner at 90s1 Investment Limited Partnership (90s).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Beauty, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $417k–$623k; Series A $483k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OASIZ — Oasiz is a creative agency that provides vertical video production and business consulting services.
  • Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Takuji Yoshida
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
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Daisuke Shimada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Daisuke Shimada is the Chairman & Founder of Insight Core.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Software, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$926k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Task Management, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $493k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
  • Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
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Ryo Ishizuka
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Ryo Ishizuka is the co-founder and CEO of Mercari, a hassle-free peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app. After founding the company in Japan and following its successful launch, Ryo leads Mercari's international expansion as the company grows globally. Prior to founding Mercari, Ryo was the Chief Architect at RockYou, a Silicon Valley startupbacked by Sequoia. At RockYou, he was responsible for developing the core infrastructures to support its rapidly growing traffic, serving more than 20 billion PVs per month. He later served as COO at RockYou Asia to lead its Asian expansion. Born in Japan and raised in the US, Ryo has spent his life constantly moving and building bridges between the two countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, AgTech, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$7M; Series A $6.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sagri — Sagri is developing agriculture software for experienced farmers.
  • Omneky — Omneky - Omnichannel Creative Orchestration
  • Flyp — Grow resale business with easy access to inventory and free automation tools. Join 10,000+ resellers today.
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $252k–$4.3M; Series A $4.6M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Uenoyama Katsuya is based out of Burlingame, California, and is the CEO and Founder of PKSHA Technology. Uenoyama previously worked at The Boston Consulting Group as a Consultant. Uenoyama Katsuya attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$672k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
  • AppBrew — AppBrew is a technology company that develops internet services focused on the beauty industry. The company operates the LIPS platform, which features user reviews and various campaigns for social commerce. AppBrew also offers a marketing tool called "LIPS for BRANDS" to help beauty companies analyze user behavior and design strategies.
  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Yuta Kikuchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Executive Vice President @ ABEJA

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palplat — Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform.
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Genichi Tamatsuka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adot — Adot specializes in product development, service growth, branding, and PR. Its services include Branding business and sales promotion business. It also supports the challenges and reforms of companies. It is not only in the field of advertising but also in a professional team in business development and development. It aims to promote"Aesthetic-conscious management" and focus on "social significance," such as "whether the whole society will be enriched," rather than the conventional business of "just do it."It was founded on July 26, 2012, and is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.
  • SISI — SISI company provides beauty products made from natural ingredients. They also offer a skin analysis program led by a skin expert, allowing customers to take care of their body and skin after a thorough examination. They also sell beauty products online and provide delivery.
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Beauty Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 40 deals from 68 investors.

68
investors
in Japan Beauty startups
40
deals
in Japan Beauty startups
$1.2M
median round
in Japan Beauty startups
3%
lead investors
lead at least one round
53%
Seed
most common funding stage

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