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Top 50 Beauty VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 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
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $610k–$71M
W ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $696k–$64M
ANRI
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $497k–$115M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Austria Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical $1.2M–$241M
UntroD Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Austria Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $772k–$241M
Fundinno
VC Fund
3 Japan, France Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding Information Technology, Content, Health Care $1.9M–$8.4M
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
2 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.5M–$64M
SBI Group
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $2.8M–$213M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $875k–$85M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$269M
Global Hands-On VC
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Video, Beauty $2M–$2M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
East Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $560k–$38M
Nexyz.Group
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Beauty, SNS, Video
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Series D, Series B, Series C Internet, Software, Health Care $9.6M–$1.2B
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$213M
AgFunder
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$40M
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Seed Apps, Manufacturing, Software $829k–$170M
Kusabi
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Logistics, Consulting $130k–$44M
Astellas Venture Management
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $10M–$65M
Glocalink
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Robotics, Biotechnology $183k–$8.5M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Consulting $792k–$62M
UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $774k–$50M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $730k–$57M
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series B, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $881k–$170M
Arcus Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Health Care
Fab Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States Pre-Seed Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Debt Financing, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
WERU Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Consulting, Software
Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Medical, Software, Health Care
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Chibagin Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Content
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Sun Asterisk
VC Fund
1 Japan, Thailand Series A, Seed, Corporate Round Apps, Beauty, Security
Freebit Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet of Things, Content, Retail Technology
Silas Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Australia Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
Full Commit Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Media and Entertainment, Apps
Tsuneishi Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, SNS, Translation Service
Cocokara Fine
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SNS, Beauty, Health Care
Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
1 United States, France, China Series B, Series A, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
MS JAPAN
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Beauty, Content, Wellness
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Internet of Things
TechAccel Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Information Services
Medical Incubator Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Denmark, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Beauty
KOEI TECMO CAPITAL
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Beauty, Medical, Health Care
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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: 254
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$43M; Series A $2.5M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
  • 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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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 $696k–$23M; Series A $1.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M 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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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Series A $2.4M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
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  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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: 551
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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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, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$43M; Series A $6M–$241M
  • 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 is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $772k–$43M; Series A $2.1M–$241M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • CastBio — Castbio specializes in antibody-drug conjugate-based drug discovery research and development. Along with medications, it also creates research reagents, medical equipment, in vitro diagnostic items, and offers drug discovery consulting.
  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • Formas.AI — Formas.AI is a multi-modal, AI-powered design platform specifically built for architects, designers, and educators to generate and visualize creative architectural concepts.
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Fundinno
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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: 92
  • Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $2M–$8.4M; Product Crowdfunding $1.9M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% 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 — Novius, Inc. is a Japan-based medical technology startup developing advanced glass-free 3D endoscopic imaging solutions. Its flagship platform, N-Vision3D, enables real-time 2D-to-3D conversion of endoscopic and microscopic images using proprietary AI-powered depth estimation. By enhancing depth perception without requiring specialized 3Dendoscopes, Novius improves surgical accuracy, supports medical training, and expands accessibility to next-generation imaging worldwide. Developed proprietary real-time 2D-to-3D imaging technology compatible with existing Olympus endoscopy towers and monitors.Completed initial clinical adoption with early users in Japan.Expanding global commercialization in minimally invasive surgery, cancer treatment, and medical education.
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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 $480k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $11M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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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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SBI Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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: 147
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$209M; Series B $7M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DriveWealth — DriveWealth, the global fintech investment rail and pioneer of fractional equities trading, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hands. We believe the future is fractional, transactional, and mobile. Every mobile device should bea gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s consultative support and cloud based, modern technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth.
  • Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
  • Digital Asset — As leaders in blockchain technology, Digital Asset empowers customers with Daml, the leading platform for multi-party applications; an innovative smart contract language and Canton, our privacy-enabled distributed ledger technology.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 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: 326
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$21M; Series A $3.2M–$85M; Series B $4.7M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MomentFeed — MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue.
  • Uncover Truth — UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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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: 547
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
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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, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • U-ZERO — U-ZERO provides services as an integrated partner for its implementation and establishment.
  • Philduct — Philduct accelerates oral health with technology.
  • 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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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, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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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: 464
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$17M; Series A $2.2M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
  • FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
  • Bioma — Media Desa Terkini
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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, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

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 — DiNA offers consulting for your beauty and health from the inside and the outside using the DNA analysis and human stem cell culture method.
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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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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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
  • Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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: 145
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reversed engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
  • 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.
  • Bear Flag Robotics — Safe, productive and efficient farming operations for the next generation of growers. Customize, Orchestrate, Automate,and Scale your fleet to your needs.
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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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $829k–$16M; Series B $4.1M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • 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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $140k–$44M; Pre-Seed $130k–$130k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% 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.
  • DelizMart — Deliz Mart is a digital-driven platform that helps to solve food distribution challenges and reduce cost transactions in the food industry.
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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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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 20 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: 72
  • Round size: Seed $792k–$62M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M 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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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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Investment focus

  • 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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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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $774k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Mage
  • 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.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Beauty startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $20M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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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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: 57
  • Round size: Seed $881k–$22M; Series B $4.2M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
  • RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
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Arcus Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Arcus Investment is an asset management firm that provides an investment platform for value opportunities in Japan to investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Fab Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Fab Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nectar AI — Nectar is an AI powered social commerce platform that helps brands scale comms and drive conversions through messaging.
  • 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.
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.
  • Credit Saison India — Credit Saison India is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Saison Co. Ltd, a Japanese credit card/prepaid card issuer. Credit Saison India has offices in Bangalore and Mumbai.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
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WERU Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Synfini — Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
  • 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.
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Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on startups in the healthcare industry.Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital that operates a venture fund specializing in the healthcare field. It is the only healthcare-specialized VC in Japan that can provide 30 medical institutions as a business trialfield.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HCMJ — HCMJ specializes in software development in the medical industry.
  • Epigno — Epigno provides hospital management systems for medical institutions.
  • Rehab — Rehab for Japan is developing a special rehabilitation SaaS for day service .
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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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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
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Chibagin Capital
VC Fund · Chiba, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Chibagin Capital, part of Chiba Bank, is focused on consulting services, IPOs, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Content
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • AMATELUS — AMATELUS is involved in the creation of a product called SwipeVideo. The application is used to develop video and image shooting and distribution systems. Their product allows viewpoint or multi-angle video to be easily created, streamed in any web browser, or embedded into any webpage.
  • Effectual — Effectual helps businesses and individuals regain online trust and build brands. With its own development know-how, they continue to develop web-based services connected to information transmission and branding. They use Google Maps to provide store advertising and anti-slander services.
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
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Sun Asterisk
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Sun Asterisk provides digital creative studio business promoting industrial digitalization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Security
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Freebit Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Freebit Investment is a venture capital that invests in early stage and seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet of Things, Content, Retail Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Housmart — Housmart is a real estate media company
  • Go Today Shaire Salon — GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON is a private room-type shared salon where freelance hairdressers and teams gather.
  • Ambient Intelligence Technology — Ambient Intelligence Technology is a manufacturing company that produces underwater drones with advance information.
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Silas Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

A Growth Equity & Venture Capital Firm for Consumer Products Companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DÔEN — DÔEN is a women-run business offering collections inspired by a nostalgia for the coastal California of decades past.
  • 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.
  • Business and Pleasure — Discover luxury beach and outdoor furniture. Premium umbrellas, chairs, furniture, coolers, and more for home, pool, and beach. Elevate your outdoor living with style and comfort.
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Full Commit Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Media and Entertainment, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
  • KaKa Creation — KaKa Creation is an animation company that produces high-quality vertical animation and content services using AI.
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Tsuneishi Partners
VC Fund · Fukuyama, Tottori, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SNS, Translation Service
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — 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.
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Cocokara Fine
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MEDCARE — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
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Cathay Innovation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm affiliated with Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Its platform connects founders with investors and its ecosystem of leading Fortune 500 corporations to help startups scale and transformindustries with consumer-to-enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health, and mobility/energy. Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5B AUM with offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Singapore and has invested in over 150 startups, including Chime, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), Glovo, Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), Owkin, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, Descartes Underwriting, and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nabla — Nabla is the leading ambient AI assistant, reducing practitioner burn-out and improving patient care.
  • Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
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MS JAPAN
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
  • Plantio — Plantio is a provider of plantation services in Japan. The company offers AI and IoT based plantation services, enabling customers to get sustainably harvested food.
  • KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubiden — Ubiden provides Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things mobile network services. The company develops applications for electric vehicle charging services.
  • Shippio — Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoicemanagement; and documentation support.
  • MetaSensing — MetaSensing specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced attachable Raman sensors, designed to provide precise, real-time chemical and molecular analysis across a wide range of applications, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.
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TechAccel Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

TechAccel Ventures is a Seed and Early-Stage Venture Capital firm focused on technology startups in Japan. The firm contributes to the development of the Japanese industry by providing investment and support based on a technical perspective.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • EAGLYS — EAGLYS provides a platform for secure computing and AI.
  • KOALA Tech — Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.
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Medical Incubator Japan
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Denmark, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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KOEI TECMO CAPITAL
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Beauty startups

KOEI TECMO CAPITAL is an investment management firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Beauty VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 173 deals from 291 investors.

291
investors
in Japan Beauty startups
173
deals
in Japan Beauty startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Beauty startups
24%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage

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