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Top 50 Beauty VC Funds & Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
ANRI
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $275k–$34M
UntroD Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, Singapore, Austria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $316k–$15M
W ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $382k–$37M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Internet, Software $351k–$52M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $574k–$42M
Fundinno
VC Fund
3 Japan, France Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding Information Technology, Content, Health Care $123k–$582k
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $457k–$28M
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $123k–$5.7M
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Austria Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics $316k–$21M
NH Foods
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A Health Care, Beauty, Education $3.9M–$7.4M
UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
East Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$31M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $356k–$48M
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed Apps, Software, Internet $650k–$132M
Kusabi
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Logistics, Consulting $130k–$2.6M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series B, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $881k–$12M
AgFunder
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$28M
SBI Group
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $2.8M–$70M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Consulting $648k–$47M
Gree
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Gaming, Content $1.2M–$38M
VU Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Colombia Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1.4M–$64M
Global Hands-On VC
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Information Technology, Video, Beauty $2M–$43M
Euglena
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage $527k–$5.6M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $800k–$142M
Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
2 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.5M–$64M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$52M
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Series D, Series B, Series C Internet, Software, Health Care $9.6M–$1.2B
Astellas Venture Management
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $10M–$65M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$68M
MARUI GROUP
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, United States Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series D E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $2.8M–$26M
Glocalink
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Robotics, Biotechnology $43k–$3.3M
Arco Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, Malaysia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Education, Beauty, Robotics $217k–$943k
Nexyz.Group
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Beauty, SNS, Apps
MIRAISE
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
F Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
Asobi System
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Video, SNS, Beauty $1.6M–$71M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Future Food Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Denmark Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing $1.2M–$26M
Iyogin Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $816k–$340M
Resona Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $924k–$32M
Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
1 United States, France, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $6.2M–$176M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.3M–$142M
partyfactory
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Content, Education, Beauty
MT Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Beauty, EdTech $134k–$918k
Plan-Do-See Co., Ltd.
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Apps
Apricot Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Internet, Fashion $135k–$4.5M
Antler
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Habitat Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Service Industry, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Tiantu Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Internet
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 306
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $731k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HANAMII — HANAMII is a creative and marketing company that offers digital marketing, branding, business support services, and social media marketing.
  • Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$6M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $927k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
  • Teragen Energy — Teragen Energy develops an energy technology platform based on advanced regenerative solid oxide fuel cells that provide both power generation and energy storage in a single system. The company’s systems generate electricity from external fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen without combustion and can operate in reverse to store power as hydrogen.Teragen designs modular systems that can be scaled from megawatt-scale installations for data centers to deployments for microgrids, renewable projects, and utilities. Its technology is intended to help operators manage variable renewable output, ride through outages, and address daily capacity needs using one device. Teragen focuses on applications including AI and cloud data centers, manufacturing and cold storage facilities, remote communities, and electric grid infrastructure. The platform is positioned to replace separate diesel generators and battery systems by combining fuel-flexible generation and low-cost storage in a compact footprint.
  • IGrid Solutions — IGrid Solutions will promote “eDCM” to optimize power energy demand.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$14M; Series A $1.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $351k–$8.5M; Series A $1.3M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $625k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter Holding — 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.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $574k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$31M; Series B $2.8M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
  • Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
  • 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.
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Fundinno
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Health Care
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Japan, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $131k–$582k; Product Crowdfunding $123k–$444k
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atto — Atto operates in the healthcare and preventive medicine field as a technology venture. Its main business is the development, manufacturing, and sale of health inspection equipment. The core product is a capillary blood flow observation device called Kekkan Bijin. This device allows users to observe capillary blood flow simply by placing a finger onit, without any blood sampling.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
  • Novius Company — Official Novius Founder and CEO,
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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TLM
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$5.7M; Angel $123k–$374k; Series B $723k–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $418k in 2015

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.
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $927k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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 provides labor-saving solutions that promote productivity improvement and reduce the burden on workers at construction sites. The company contributes to the evolution and development of the construction industry. The objective of Ken Robotec is to create a joyful construction site where robots and humans may collaborate.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
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NH Foods
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

NH Foods produces and sells processed meats and cooked foods, and also provides packaging services. It manufactures and sells hams, sausages, and other processed food. The company also operates in the breeding of pigs, cattle, and broilers, as well as the processing, and sale of meat products. The company is also engaged in the production and saleof dairy products and aquatic products. It manages overseas subsidiaries and the production and sales of processed food, meat, and aquatic products.NH Foods was founded on 1949 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Beauty, Education
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • CoreTissue BioEngineering — CoreTissue BioEngineering is a development of an artificial ligament for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in Japan.
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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.

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  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
  • 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.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 632
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

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  • Industry: Apps, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$3.6M; Series B $2.2M–$132M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is a technology startup that combines machine learning and IoT technology to reduce fieldwork operations. The startup's LiLz Gauge captures and analyzes values by using a low-power IoT camera to capture the current analog meter, uploading it to the cloud, and performing character and image recognition. Analog meters can perform the samefunctions as smart meters. They are also working on a sound search service (LiLz Sound Search) for detecting signs of abnormalities in equipment.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
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Kusabi
VC Fund · Kayabacho, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Venture Capital Fund in JAPAN

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Logistics, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $140k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $130k–$130k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palplat — Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform.
  • Pulsiv8 — Pulsiv8 is an IT company that offers innovation strategy, DX project support, digital transformation, and AI product development services.
  • BETA — BETA is a media company that provides HRDX support business and video production services.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $881k–$1.5M; Series B $4.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • JIZAIE — JIZAIE is an artificial intelligence firm that wants to combine VR, robots, and wearable computing to create solution.
  • PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
  • Global Trust Networks — GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost.
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $362k in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
  • IIF — A farm in your pocket.
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SBI Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 26 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$62M; Series B $7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ajaib — Mulai investasi online dengan Ajaib. Platform investasi terpercaya yang aman, sudah berizin dan diawasi OJK & BAPPEBTI. Download aplikasinya & daftar sekarang!
  • Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
  • NOT A HOTEL — NOT A HOTEL develops a vacation-home ownership and hospitality platform that enables customers to purchase usage rights to architect-designed homes and access a network of properties through a shared ownership model. The company offers vacation residences that can be purchased in increments based on annual usage, with ownership providing recurringaccess to the selected property and reciprocal use of other participating NOT A HOTEL properties. Its platform combines real estate ownership, hospitality operations, property management, reservations, concierge services, and digital tools that allow owners to manage stays, check in, and access services through a mobile application. NOT A HOTEL also provides hotel-style accommodation to guests and manages properties on behalf of owners, including maintenance, cleaning, and operational services. The company collaborates with architects, designers, and other creators to develop individually designed residences and is expanding its hospitality offering through additional properties and hotel brands.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$14M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
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Gree
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M; Series A $3.7M–$38M; Series B $3.5M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • YGG Japan — YGG Japan elevates blockchain games to provide accessible content for all gamers in Japan and lead them to the world of “Play-to-Earn”.
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VU Venture Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $5M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Natilus — We are creating a new generation of hyper-efficient blended wing body aircraft designed to make commercial aviation more sustainable and efficient, ensuring a healthier planet for future generations.
  • ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
  • HEARTio — Heart I/O is a digital diagnostic startup helping emergency providers identify heart abnormalities in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Global Hands-On VC
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

GHOVC is a Japanese start-up accelerator that provides investment and hands-on support to help them succeed abroad.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Video, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $5.9M–$43M; Series A $2M–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • U-ZERO — U-ZERO provides services as an integrated partner for its implementation and establishment.
  • TYLsemi — Advancing AI with production-ready chiplets. Standards-based silicon for AI infrastructure.
  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
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Euglena
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

euglena Co., Ltd. engages in the research, development, production, and sale of microalgae with a focus on euglena. The company also manufactures and sells foods and cosmetics using euglena. It offers green juices, cookie bars, beverages, dietary supplements, and raw materials, as well as contract manufacturing/processing services; and skincare products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $527k–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate — Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate sells cacao beans and handmade chocolate. Their product line includes chocolate rare cheesecake, cacao tours, chocolate bars, sweets, chocolate sandwich cookies, and sweets. Their products serve consumers.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$57M; Series A $2.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
  • Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
  • Orbital Lasers — Orbital is a space tech company that provides space debris business to remove debris and a satellite LiDAR business to provide surface data.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 641
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$52M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series D, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series B $9.6M–$411M; Series C $22M–$369M; Series D $12M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $633M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • SDP Japan — SDP Japan is a provider of super Doctor Produce Business and procurement and sales of surgical components, pharmaceuticals, and consumables.
  • ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
  • Think Nature — Think Nature is a researcher startup that specializes in the solutions related to the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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Astellas Venture Management
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Gene Therapy Company | Rare Genetic Disease

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$65M; Series B $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2005

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a dynamic group of hard-working professionals dedicated to transforming the treatment of diseases by developing groundbreaking medicines.
  • Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 656
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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MARUI GROUP
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series D
  • Geography: Japan, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Series B $3.1M–$15M; Series D $3M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
  • SHE — SHE Japan is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of asset management, financial services, and accounting. It provides creative skill lessons, coaching programs, and job acquisition support opportunities for millennial careers.
  • Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
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Arco Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Arco Partners is a venture support and investment company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Beauty, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $217k–$532k; Venture - Series Unknown $234k–$943k
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Univrs — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
  • Palplat — Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform.
  • TOY EIGHT — Toy Eight is a children's education company that provides experiential edutainment playgrounds. The company nurtures child's untapped potential through its platform.
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Nexyz.Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Nexyz.Group provides facility installation service for LED lighting.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • DiNA — Focused Salesforce and AI products built from real operational work.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile with GIG-A. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
  • XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
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Asobi System
VC Fund · Harajuku, Saitama, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Japanese pop culture entertainment. Manages Japanese pop artists like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and produces Harajuku KAWAii, and other events.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ARK — ARK specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of land-based aquaculture equipment for sustainable fish farming.
  • C Channel — C Channel operates a lifestyle video media platform targeting women, offering content in fashion, beauty, food, and parenting. Its services include influencer marketing and e-commerce operations. It empowers women by combining media, commerce, and technology.​
  • Personize — Personize (ペルソナイズ) is the operator of salomee LIVE (サロミーライブ), a platform for beauty professionals such as hairdressers, nail stylists, estheticians, and makeup artists to distribute videos and beauty advice.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Dr.’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.
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Future Food Fund
VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Future Food Fund is a corporate venture capital company that specializes in the field of food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$26M; Series B $1.5M–$7.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
  • Mycoverse — Mycoverse is a agri-biotech startup specializes in developing fungal-based biological crop protection solutions to replace chemical pesticides, targeting row crops with an initial focus on potato late blight.
  • GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.
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Iyogin Capital
VC Fund · Matsuyama, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Iyogin Capital is an investment firm that supports venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$8.4M; Series B $1.1M–$340M; Venture - Series Unknown $816k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Amidex — Amidex is a dental care facility that treats dental problems with contemporary tools and technology.
  • KUROFUNE — KUROFUNE specializes in services such as human resources, income compensation insurance, low-fee overseas remittances.
  • Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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Resona Capital
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Resona Capital is a micro-venture capital fund specialized in early-stage investments. The firm was founded in 1988 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Series A $924k–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Lavol — Lavol aims to promote the widespread and efficient use of money as a fair and timely payment for valuable labor, recognizing the essential role that work plays in building both individual livelihoods and broader economic stability.
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
  • 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.
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Cathay Innovation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

A global venture capital firm investing in founders building transformative businesses everywhere.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Series A $6.2M–$30M; Series B $15M–$60M; Series C $30M–$176M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Embat — Embat develops cloud-based treasury management software designed to help finance teams manage cash flow, banking operations, and financial forecasting in real time. The company provides a platform that connects bank accounts, enterprise resource planning systems, and payment systems to centralize visibility of cash positions across multipleentities and currencies. Its software supports automated reconciliation, payment execution, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting through a unified interface. The platform also includes AI-driven features that assist with transaction matching, anomaly detection, and cash flow prediction to reduce manual finance operations. Embat works with mid-sized and large enterprises to streamline treasury workflows, improve liquidity management, and support financial decision-making. The company integrates with a wide network of financial institutions and enterprise systems to enable continuous financial data synchronization and operational control.The platform uses automation and AI features to reduce manual treasury tasks, including transaction matching, accounting entries, and financial reporting workflows. It integrates with a wide range of banking systems and corporate ERPs to synchronize financial data continuously. Embat also enables centralized payment management, allowing finance teams to initiate, approve, and track transactions across multiple banking relationships. Its tools support cash visibility, debt monitoring, and financial scenario planning for operational decision-making.
  • GenLogs — Carrier sourcing. Carrier vetting. Carrier Compliance. Shipper prospecting. Asset monitoring. Asset recovery. Freight Intelligence. All in one Truck Intelligence platform!
  • skan.ai — Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns /reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
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partyfactory
VC Fund · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Rock the startup! We are a seed stage investor in innovative, disruptive, fast-paced, crazy, fun, unparalleled, productive, but above all party-loving startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Flights — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
  • Gram — gram is a job changing agent service.
  • Flamingo — Flamingo is to contribute to a multicultural society through IT.
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MT Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$918k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • Milamore — Designed in New York and handcrafted in Japan, Milamore believes that niche is a new luxury. They are committed to creating high-quality fine jewelry that's true to price, without compromising on their core values – living boldly, respecting heritage and celebrating the very best craftsmanship that the world has to offer.
  • manebi — manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.
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Plan-Do-See Co., Ltd.
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Plan-Do-See Co., Ltd. is a hotel & restaurant management firm that deals with Hotel / restaurant / banquet management services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UMITO — UMITO is a real estate brokerage firm that specializes in the planning, development, and management of property investment schools, providing structured educational programs, expert guidance, and practical training designed to help individuals and investors build knowledge, evaluate opportunities, and succeed in the real estate market.
  • Shikomel — Shikomel is a restaurant app that receives recipes from the store. The menu offered by other shops can also be ordered. The app can be used to develop new menus.
  • TableCheck — TableCheck empowers restaurant operators worldwide to maximize guest engagement, reservations, and table utilization.We analyze and evaluate data from restaurants and use this information to create a more vibrant dining experience for their customers.Our team of creative minds is continuously seeking to drive innovative solutions to support ourrestaurant partners. TableCheck’s restaurant management tools give restaurants the power and flexibility to provide seamless customer experiences for every guest from the moment they make reservations. "
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Apricot Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Apricot Ventures is a seed venture capital that mainly supports those who start businesses independently from large companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $135k–$2.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $273k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.3M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • YAGO — YAGO operates in the IT field and provides internet and software services.
  • Nudge — Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 116 in the past 12 months

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 683
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
  • Vern — Made with love in Sydney
  • Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.
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Habitat Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Early-stage venture fund based in NYC

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Service Industry, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
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Tiantu Capital
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EVENTEC — EVENTEC is a service robot system solution provider.
  • Leman Biotech — Leman Biotech is a biotech company that is engaged in development of cancer immunotherapies.
  • Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.
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Beauty VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 227 deals from 341 investors.

341
investors
in Japan Beauty startups
227
deals
in Japan Beauty startups
$2.3M
median round
in Japan Beauty startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Venture - Series Unknown
most common funding stage

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