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Top 50 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

Investor	Beauty Japan investments
Nissay Capital	4
W ventures	4
SMBC Venture Capital	3
Fundinno	3
ANRI	3
TLM	3
UntroD Capital	3
Real Tech Japan	3
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment	2
Angel Bridge	2
SBI Group	2
STRIVE	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	2
Genesia Ventures	2
East Ventures	2
Glocalink	2
UTokyo Innovation Platform	2
AgFunder	2
Nexyz.Group	2
Keio Innovation Initiative	2
Astellas Venture Management	2
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank	1
Bridge Global Capital	1
Segue Group	1
Arcus Investment	1
K2VC	1
Tiantu Capital	1
Sun Asterisk	1
MS JAPAN	1
Medical Incubator Japan	1
Tsuneishi Partners	1
Mitsubishi Research Institute	1
Energy & Environment Investment	1
DD Holdings	1
Cocokara Fine	1
IMAGE WORKS	1
iPLAB Startups	1
euglena	1
XTech Ventures	1
KOEI TECMO CAPITAL	1
VU Venture Partners	1
MARUI GROUP	1
Makuake	1
CyberAgent	1
WERU Investment	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
DeNA	1
Sansei Capital Investment	1
LiB Consulting	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

Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
Edukita — Belajar Bahasa Inggris jadi menyenangkan, interaktif, dan memberi hasil yang nyata. Diajar oleh guru asing berpengalaman.
Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content

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

Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
nanameue, Inc. — 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.

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.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.

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.

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.
Aculys Pharma — Accuris Pharma is a pharmaceutical company that aims to develop innovative and superior medical methods and deliver them to patients.

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

Investment focus

Nursing and Residential Care, Medical, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.

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

iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
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.

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!

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 — VIRUTUOUS CYCLE OF ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY
Gojo & Company — Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.

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

KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
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.

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

Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.

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.

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.

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

OOYOO — OOYOO Co., Ltd. is a DeepTech venture that combines international entrepreneurial spirit, and a 'Made In Japan' excellence, to bring the latest innovations in clean technology to society for a smarter, cleaner, and more mobile world.
Visban — Visban is a technology company that specializes in utilizing mmWave signals for connectivity both indoors and outdoors. Their primary focus is on providing reliable and fast network solutions that eliminate dead spots and offer uninterrupted connections. By utilizing mmWave signals, Visban can achieve this with fewer base stations, leading to moreenergy-efficient operations and extended battery life for mobile devices on their network.
Trans-N — Trans-N aims to introduce advanced AI technologies, accelerating digital transformation and promoting its AI transformation. Trans-N offers management consulting, AI system development, and sales of AI-related products, including meeting minutes and contract analysis tools, serving major trading companies.

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, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil
Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management
Cargill Hong Kong — Cargill Hong Kong is an agricultural technology service provider dedicated to optimizing food production and supply chain management with sophisticated agricultural technologies, resulting in increased sustainability and efficiency in agricultural production.

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

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, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
NIHON AGRI — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.

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 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

Portfolio highlights

Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
Gojo & Company — Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.
Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.

Bridge Global Capital Group is an independent investment banking and strategic growth advisory firm. We help mid-sized and high-potential emerging growth companies refine and articulate strategy, recalibrate positioning, substantiate value, secure capital, and achieve transactions, including exits.Our customized, end-to-end solutions provideclients with a cost-effective and balanced way to pursue and achieve strategic transactions while still maintaining focus on the day-to-day business. We leverage the resources of our affiliated strategic growth advisory platform, 360accel, to help clients substantiate value and better prepare for transactions.

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON — GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON is a private room-type shared salon where freelance hairdressers and teams gather.

Segue Group provides information technology solutions and services. It engages in the design of the IT infrastructure and network security products in the IT system, sales, construction, operation, maintenance services.

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.

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

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.

K2VC (Xianfeng Evergreen) was founded in 2010, focused on early stage investment in technology start-ups in China, focus on promoting change and technological progress, innovative business models and lifestyles.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Xingkeyuan — Star Science is a high-performance lithium battery silicon-carbon negative electrode material research and development company. It has achieved small-scale mass manufacture of nano-silicon as well as the experimental development of high-efficiency silicon-carbon composite materials.
LTZ Therapeutics — LTZ develops novel immunotherapies to treat patients that suffer from cancer and other diseases with an unmet clinical need.
Ligu Renewable Energy — Ligu Renewable Energy is a renewable energy company that provides organic liquid hydrogen storage, transportation, and renewable solutions.

Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

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.

Sun Asterisk provides digital creative studio business promoting industrial digitalization.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Security
Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
Justiceye — Justiceye provides AI-controlled security and surveillance camera solutions.
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.

MS JAPAN operates as a recruitment service for business administration positions and professionals.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Wellness
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.

Medical Incubator Japan is an investment company specializing in healthcare and Comprising a group of professionals in the healthcare business and investment fields.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Beauty
Seed, Series A, Series C
Japan, Denmark, United States

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.
ILC Therapeutics — ILC Therapeutics Ltd is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on modulating the Innate Immune System through the development of novel peptide therapeutics for the treatment of Covid-19, Cancer, Atopic Dermatitis, and Psoriasis.
Hoba Therapeutics — Hoba Therapeutics is developing a new therapeutic protein for the treatment of neuropathic pain.

Tsuneishi Partners provides services and products in shipbuilding, shipping, environmental, energy, and services. With regard to product development, the company has a lineup of container carriers and tankers centered on bulk cargo ships to meet the needs of various markets. It was established in 1917 and is based in Hiroshima, Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, SNS, Translation Service
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

JaQool, Inc. — JaQool is a company that will leverage social innovation and new technologies to create convenient services that are something to get excited about. Three entrepreneurs from different backgrounds have gathered together to utilise these new technologies and techniques to develop services that can help to make the world a better place.JaQool willinitially work on a mobile translation service for tourists coming to Japan from overseas. The number of tourists from overseas has been increasing rapidly in recent years, but many have encountered difficulties due to being unable to understand Japanese. Removing the language barrier is a pressing challenge that needs to be addressed, particularly in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics that will be held in 2020. JaQool can help contribute towards a solution.
Kotozna Japan — Kotozna is an IT service company that aims to solve the social problem of "language cave" using cutting-edge technologies such as AI and machine translation. Multilingual translation services such as "Kotozna Chat", which provides messaging with simultaneous translation between different SNS platforms, and "KotoznaCamera", which translates Japanese content such as restaurant menus and displays them by QR code scanning.
Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

The Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (MRI) is a Japanese think tank, founded in 1970 in commemoration of the centenary of the Mitsubishi Group. Their mission is to resolve societal issues both in Japan and throughout the world through our think tank, consulting, and ICT capabilities.They employ roughly 800 researchers with high levels ofexpertise in a broad range of fields, particularly in the natural sciences, and with exceptional technical and analytical abilities. They stringently maintain a neutral position which has enabled us to develop an extensive, interdisciplinary network with members of industry, academia, and government. They act as a hub connecting all sectors to overcome increasingly complex societal issues. They provide integrated solutions that encompass everything from conceptualization to realization and implementation.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Nursing and Residential Care, Medical
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.
LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Internet of Things
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Crassone — Crassone is an housing assistance service.
Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.

DD Holdings is a restaurant company.

Investment focus

Beauty, Consulting, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DiNA — CLOUD SERVICE SUPPORT

Cocokara Fine is a provider of healthcare services to drug store and pharmaceutical operation.

Investment focus

SNS, Beauty, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MEDCARE — Medcare is a medical service corporation.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MEDCARE — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
Amelieff — Amelieff provides bioinformatic skills and knowledge to help bio-researchers. The company's bioinformaticians analyzes data by using open-source software and in-house developed tools. The company delivers data analysis servers made of widely used bioinformatics software. Servers may be customized on request, such as organisms’ genome. Thecompany also offers bioinformatics skill training. Training can be at a desired site and schedule, and the contents may be customized to customers demands.Amelieff was founded in July 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
NeuroSpace — NeuroSpace is a science venture that leads human's 24 hours to a new level with Neuroscience Technology, which elucidates the mystery of sleep .

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Logo Labo — Logo Labo provides branding and marketing services, including brand development, formulation, IT-based branding and marketing support.
Batton — Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted.
OpenMoney — OpenMoney is a company that offers information related to financial services.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, India

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

CyberAgent, Inc. is mainly engaged in the integrated net business.The Company operates in five business segments. The Integrated Net Business segment is engaged in the advertisement agency business, the smart phone media business, as well as the sale of advertisements for smart phone. The Media Related segment is engaged in the social gamebusiness, the operation of mobile media and personal computer business. The Ameba Related segment is engaged in the operation of Websites Ameba and Ameba Pigg.

Investment focus

Education, Advertising, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .
DiNA — CLOUD SERVICE SUPPORT
Call Doctor — Call Doctor offers visit requests, online medical treatment, and medical consultation. In a contemporary world where the need for medical care is evolving, the company seeks to provide the appropriate medical treatment to the appropriate people at the appropriate time. The Call Doctor app is used to request house calls, online physicals, andmedical consultations to receive safe and secure medical care.

As a pioneer and innovator in venture capital in Japan for the past 2 decades, we are deeply engaged in developing and supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups by leveraging our strategic position as a conduit between government, business and academia.“WERU” is the first research unit in the field of entrepreneurship in Japan established byprofessors at the graduate school, Waseda University in 1993.　“WERU Investment” is the first venture capital closely associated with university research labs, centers and institutes in japan. WERU Investment provides financial services for institutional investors (e.g. Pension funds and Endowments) as a Japanese discretionary investment manager (DIM) by fully taking advantage of these research resources, accumulated know-how and strong network.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Synfini — The Agile Drug Discovery Company.
Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
Cinderelax — Cinderelax is a makeup video app through which individuals can learn makeup.

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

Poetics — Poetics is an AI startup that develops communication related products concerning language and voice to provide business solutions.
Endophyte — Endophyte specializes in endophytic soil solutions, harnessing beneficial microorganisms to plant growth and agricultural productivity.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Education, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

Investment focus

Content, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.

LiB Consulting is a management consulting firm focused on marketing and sales strategies.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Health Care
Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
chikaku — Chikaku is a service that automatically sends photos and videos taken with smartphones to your home TV without any hassle.

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