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Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Japan in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Japan in April 2025

Investor	Beauty Japan investments
Nissay Capital	4
W ventures	4
ANRI	3
SMBC Venture Capital	3
UntroD Capital	3
TLM	3
Real Tech Japan	3
Fundinno	3
Kazuhiko Ishikura	2
SBI Group	2
UTokyo Innovation Platform	2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	2
STRIVE	2
Genesia Ventures	2
Keio Innovation Initiative	2
East Ventures	2
Kazuhiro Ishikura	2
Angel Bridge	2
Yu Akasaka	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
Keisuke Kogure	2
AgFunder	2
Glocalink	2
Nexyz.Group	2
Astellas Venture Management	2
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Takuma Iwasa	1
IMAGE WORKS	1
DD Holdings	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
Money Forward Venture Partners	1
Framgia Holdings	1
iPLAB Startups	1
Hironari Umino	1
Sakano Atsushi	1
Ryosuke Matsumoto	1
KOEI TECMO CAPITAL	1
Habitat Partners	1
Joyance Partners	1
Kyowa	1
Arcus Investment	1
MARUI GROUP	1
MIRAISE	1
Caygan Capital	1
Cathay Capital	1
Makuake	1
Hiroaki Kitano	1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank	1
Hayama Takashi	1

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Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
Doctor's Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.

UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
Optieum Biotechnologies — Optieum Biotechnologies Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing innovative scFv antibody-based therapies for the treatment of patients with cancers. Their proprietary platform technology, Eumbody System™, enables to develop and detect a scFv-based product candidates that specifically bind to, and modulate tooptimize the immune-cell function for oncology targets.We are committed to helping patients with severe diseases by bringing life-changing therapies to the patients in need.

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Nanameue — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Singapore, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Health Care
Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding, Funding Round
Japan, France

Portfolio highlights

EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.

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.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

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 offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
UBX Philippines — UBX Philippines is a fintech company passionate about creating opportunities and access for all by building solutions.
Preferred Networks — Preferred Networks (PFN) was established in March 2014 in Tokyo with the goal to develop practical, real-world applications of deep learning, robotics and other latest technologies. PFN is currently focused on three priority areas – transportation systems, manufacturing and bio-healthcare – and also exploring the use of deep learning in personalrobots, plant optimization, materials discovery, sports analytics and entertainment. PFN has a U.S. subsidiary in Burlingame, California.

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
BlueWX — BlueWX is a software company that develops predictive content services that supports in forecasting, and weather analysis.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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!

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Fashion
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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 offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Inter — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

Mr. Keisuke Kogure serves as general partner at Mint.

Investment focus

Beauty, iOS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
Lumi AI — Ask questions in simple language and receive instant answers. No coding (SQL/Python) skills needed. Lumi is your personal, available 24/7, data analyst AI. Sign up for early access!
Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil

Glocalink provides seed funding and comprehensive support for emerging science & technology entrepreneurs. Members of Glocalink have extensive experiences of bringing laboratory technologies to the market. On top of seed funding, we will provide comprehensive supports for overcoming all the hurdles that science / technology entrepreneursface.

Investment focus

Health Care, Robotics, Task Management
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
ExtraBold — ExtraBold specializes in the development of 3D printers.
ProfilePrint — Helping agribusinesses buy and sell better, ProfilePrint is powered by a patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology. ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality.

Nexyz.Group provides facility installation service for LED lighting.

Investment focus

Beauty, SNS, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
C Channel — C Channel is an online video-based media targeting women aged 20 to 34, focusing on offering lifestyle-related information ranging from hairstyling, food, to travel tips.
DiNA — CLOUD SERVICE SUPPORT

Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
SyntaxBio — SyntaxBio develops CRISPR/Cas9-based, genetic programming platform that converts cells into biological computers using DNA-based instructions that read like lines of code. SyntaxBio's platform can program cells without the need for consistent external intervention.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust provides Japanese equity products for corporate and governmental pension funds. SMTB also provides products investing in Asian equities. The capability was developed through its experience in Japanese equity, although it maintains an investment team in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Series D, Series A, Series B
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

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.

Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.

Investment focus

Water, Beauty, IT Management
Seed
Japan

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.

IMAGE WORKS provides sales promotion for telecommunication products.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.

DD Holdings is a restaurant company.

Investment focus

Beauty, Consulting, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DiNA — CLOUD SERVICE SUPPORT

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Symbiobe — Symbiobe develops and promotes a resource-recycling material production platform that effectively utilizes natural biomass resources and photosynthetic organisms, which have not been fully exploited in the past, and to update manufacturing around the world to a form that can be passed on to the next generation, thereby making sustainable society...
DoctorMate — DoctorMate is a service that allows you to consult with your doctor about problems at your nursing home.They will reduce the risks and burdens related to medical care from the field of nursing care, and support the creation of a system that allows nursing care providers to concentrate on daily care with peace of mind.
GC Therapeutics — Discover GC Therapeutics, a pioneer in scalable, cutting-edge cell therapies designed to revolutionize treatment across a broad range of therapeutic areas.

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Wellness, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.

Framgia Holdings

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Wellness
Seed, Series A
Japan, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
Flare — Flare is an application for drivers to increase revenue. It is a network system for automobile advertisement.They can offer automobile advertisement in the most appropriate form with the latest technology.

iPLAB Startups is an organization that supports something new from an intellectual property perspective.

Investment focus

Beauty, IT Management, Internet of Things
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.

Hironari Umino - Chairman @ Increments

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Incubators
Seed, Series A
Japan

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.

Sakano Atsushi

Investment focus

Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS
Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
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.

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

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

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 is a contemporary art global platform management company.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

KOEI TECMO CAPITAL is an investment management firm.

Investment focus

Beauty, Medical, Health Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.

Early-stage venture fund based in NYC

Investment focus

Service Industry, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DAMDAM Tokyo — DAMDAM is clean skincare born from Japanese craftsmanship and time-honored plant ingredients. We believe in creating thoroughly modern, thoughtfully made products that cultivate a connection between ourselves and the natural world. The line is minimal, made up of purposeful essentials formulated to work alone or in harmonious combination with eachother. All products are made with 100% natural ingredients that have high efficacy without causing irritation. Equally important, they feel weightless on skin.
Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.
Rainbow — Rainbow Insurance offers flexible coverage that's 100% tailored for restaurants. Connect with a trusted advisor and get better coverage at the right price.

Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.
DAMDAM Tokyo — DAMDAM is clean skincare born from Japanese craftsmanship and time-honored plant ingredients. We believe in creating thoroughly modern, thoughtfully made products that cultivate a connection between ourselves and the natural world. The line is minimal, made up of purposeful essentials formulated to work alone or in harmonious combination with eachother. All products are made with 100% natural ingredients that have high efficacy without causing irritation. Equally important, they feel weightless on skin.
World Class Health — Access top 1% global healthcare with World Class Health. Superior patient experience & reduced employer spend. Explore our Global Benefits today.

Kyowa provides health and beauty care products to customers.

Investment focus

Beauty, Finance, Computer
Seed, Series A, Series C
Japan

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Hmcomm — Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutescreation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology.
lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.

We are a Pan Asian fund management company whose abiding ethos is to produce superior returns through disciplined and active investment in undervalued equities.

Investment focus

Beauty, Medical, Health Care
Seed
Japan

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Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.

MARUI GROUP's web-site provides company information such as Group companies, as well as IR and Sustainability information.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Fashion
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Japan

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Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
Gaxie Co — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.
Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Estonia

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CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

Hedge Fund - Multi Strat

Investment focus

Software, Agriculture, AgTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Japan

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Drovo — The GIG economy driven on-car mobility media Platform that delivers high reach at low cost CPM via vehicle wrapped advertising campaigns for D2C brands. Adverttu - Get your brand on the road.
Good Life Sorted — Discover comprehensive elderly care services in the UK with Good Life Sorted. Maintain independence with our personalised home help solutions.
Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.

Cathay Capital is a global private equity and venture capital investment firm supporting companies at every stage of their lifecycle.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
China, France, United States

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Moose Knuckles — Shop the widest-exclusive selection of Moose Knuckles - Official Site. Canadian engineered outerwear, down jackets, coats, parkas. Free shipping & return.
Fengshi Technology — Fengshi Technology is an innovative marine biotechnology developer.
Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.

Makuake is a operation of various support services centered on the cloud funding platform "Makuake".It is a product production support project utilizing R & D technology.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
Japan, United States

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Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate — Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate is a Chocolate startup

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

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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.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Energy
Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, India, United Arab Emirates

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ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

Investment focus

SNS, Beauty, Medical
Seed
Japan

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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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