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Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Big Data startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Big Data startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$269M
SOSV
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $565k–$71M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $875k–$78M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$198M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$184M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.5M–$100M
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Internet of Things $2.2M–$283M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $684k–$71M
WERU Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Consulting $1.5M–$64M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Content, Information Technology, Travel $700k–$75M
Shizen Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $133k–$26M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $558k–$17M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Local, Content $3.3M–$9M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $1.8M–$340M
m8 Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, Apps $1M–$7.2M
JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, Thailand Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Malaysia, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $775k–$45M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Hakuhodo DY Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Australia, Singapore Series A, Series B Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology $1.8M–$109M
Dogan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Automotive $6M–$57M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $740k–$184M
Leave a Nest
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, Malaysia Seed, Corporate Round Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $276k–$35M
Morgan Stanley
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Private Equity, Series C Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $15M–$400M
GREE Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Internet, Information Technology, Software
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Mint
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Belgium Series A, Series B Content, Medical, Task Management
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
OPT
VC Fund
1 Japan, New Zealand, United States Seed, Corporate Round Mobile, Advertising, Apps
Waseda University
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Social, FinTech, Big Data
SPARX Innovation for the Future
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A, Seed Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
TIS Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Series C, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Resona Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Debt Financing, Series A Information Technology, Software, Internet
Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Medical, Big Data, Health Care
Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Corporate Round Fashion, Software, Advertising
Konoike Transport
VC Fund
1 Japan Big Data, Software, Logistics
Community Healthcare Coordination Platform
VC Fund
1
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Old Fashion Research
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain
Aizawa Asset Management
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Real Estate, Information Technology
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.8M
Hiroshi Sawa
Angel
1 Japan Social, Big Data, Analytics
Tokusui
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Internet of Things, Information Services
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$74M; Series B $3.3M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Space BD — Space BD aims to become a one-stop shop to respond to all issues related to industrialization of space, and alleviate the work of businesses that are developing new technologies.
  • KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 4 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Big Data 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: 264
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$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.
  • Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$21M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Big Data 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: 576
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Big Data 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: 584
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Big Data startups

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$35M; Series A $2.8M–$64M; Series B $2.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data 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: Energy, Software, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$105M; Series B $3.7M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TWO — TWO is a health and wellness company that offers innovative lifestyle solutions 2foods, a line of healthy and delicious food products.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Big Data 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: 349
  • Round size: Seed $684k–$21M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $4.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SHIFT — Shift.com of San Francisco CA serving Oakland is one of the best pre-owned dealerships in CA. Call Sales <span class='callNowClass'>855-744-3873</span>
  • 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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WERU Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data 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, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$64M; Series A $6.9M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

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.
  • ELternal — ELternal develops tourism resources for shrines and temples. Their services include business process support, sns utilisation support, and website creation for temples.
  • Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$30M; Series A $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Shizen Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$26M; Pre-Seed $133k–$300k; Series A $892k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MamaWell
  • Colega AI — Create engaging social media content every day with AI. Colega AI is your AI social media manager that helps your business grow and reach new customers.
  • Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $558k–$17M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 459
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$115M; Series B $2.4M–$340M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

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  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
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m8 Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

m8 Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that funds mobile technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuller — Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab.App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active usersof the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more.App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market.Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.
  • Applauze — Applauze, formerly 955Dreams Inc., is a new age publishing company. They publish magical titles on mobile devices. Their latest product, called Applauze launched in March of 2013, is an iOS app that presents users with thousands of events happening every day, from concerts and theater productions to sports games and community events. Theservice is available across 41 U.S. cities and 5 Canadian cities.Applauze finds tickets from primary sellers, as well as secondary markets like StubHub, and uses data analytics and machine learning to recommend relevant events to users, who can easily purchase tickets via the app and also share their event with friends.Applauze is a small group of hackers and designers who are working on mobile products that will engage and excite you. They love what they do and their users love the products they've built. Their designs are executed at a very high standard and their apps are educational and highly immersive at the same time. Applauze has raised money from Mitch Kapor and 500 Startups.
  • Just Sing It — JustSingIt.com is the catchy, memorable domain name that is perfect for any startup looking to make a lasting impression in the music industry. With its playful and engaging tone, this domain exudes creativity and passion for all things mus
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JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 9 in the past 12 months

JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hacobu — Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform toaccumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$21M; Series A $3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Thinkfree — Deploy a self-hosted productivity suite inside your own infrastructure. Thinkfree offers on-premise online office, private cloud storage, and LLM-integrated document workflows for enterprise and SaaS platforms.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Hakuhodo DY Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$43M; Series B $3.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Creator's X — Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation production assistance tools using AI.
  • Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
  • Third Intelligence — Third Intelligence is an AI research and development firm dedicated to producing a new type of intelligence and achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Through cutting-edge research, advanced algorithm development, and large-scale computing capabilities, the company aims to push the boundaries of machine cognition, enabling systems thatcan reason, learn, and adapt across diverse domains.
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Dogan
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

an is a professional group that provides corporate investment and advice to revitalize the local economy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AZAPA — AZAPA engages in Automotive, Energy, Info Tech, Communication & Technology, and R & D business. It realizes renewable energy, social networks for energy optimization, and new possibilities and communication technologies through mobility management, from developed markets. It aims to build peace and abundance with advanced technology andideas to the BOP market.It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
  • KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.
  • AdipoSeeds — Making Platelets from Fat and Inventing New Blood Supply System.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$27M; Series A $3.5M–$99M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
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Leave a Nest
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $276k–$14M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MUU — Welcome to Muu!! We develop animal-free dairy products that taste just like dairy from cows.
  • Tenchijin — Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data.
  • Terra Labo — Terra Labo conducts research and development on long-range unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Morgan Stanley
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Meet our people and discover our ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 344
  • Round size: Series C $15M–$350M; Private Equity $20M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.1B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • X (formerly Twitter) — X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
  • Nitya Capital — Real Estate Investing Redefined. | We Are A Privately Held Real Estate Investment Firm Based In Houston, Texas | Inquiries: REI@nityacapital.com |
  • Post Trade Solutions — At #LSEG, our open, flexible philosophy helps you fund innovation, create jobs, raise capital and manage your risk. #MakeMorePossible
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GREE Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

GREE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Univearth — Univearth is a tech company that specializes in developing a logistics digital transformation platform to modernize the logistics industry.
  • Stack — Stack is the developer and provider of the SaaS-based retail mission-critical system.
  • Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
  • Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
  • Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
  • Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
  • Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
  • Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
  • LiftBase — LiftBase is revolutionizing the recruiting structure using AI and social data.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, Belgium

Investor stats

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

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.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

OPT, Inc. is Japanese e-marketing company, which supports customer's Internet marketing holding the concept 'e-marketing that would directly into sales'.OPT, Inc. aims to create new market by realizing maximizing customer's ROI and finding the best way of solutions to the customer's problem. It is the OPT'stask to propose collectively the way how to use the Internet as a marketing tool for customers and support them.In order to maximize customer's ROI, it is necessary to make ads, develop sites, develop marketing strategies, and support communication and IT strategies.At OPT. Inc: it has wide business lines, customers would be supported by the 4 business fields making ads, technology, solution, and contents.The important thing for the e-marketing company is always standing the idea "market in" not "product out". And so OPT, Inc instantaneously developed its own tool to objectively effect measurement and has tried to improve customer's marketing by using the objective data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Advertising, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Raksul — Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.
  • OPT China — OPT China is a company that provides marketing and distribution support for Chinese consumers.
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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Waseda University
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Waseda University is a Tokyo-based private university that offers various degree programs. As the second private university to be founded in Japan, Waseda University is considered to be one of Japan's most prestigious universities, consistently ranking amongst the top universities in Japanese university rankings. The University has manynotable alumni in Japan, with seven Prime Ministers of Japan and many CEOs, including Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO and wealthiest man in Japan.Waseda University's main campus is located in the Nishi-Waseda district of Shinjuku. Apart from the main campus in Shinjuku, It has other campuses around the country, including Toyama Campus and Nishi-Waseda Campus in Shinjuku; Nihonbashi Campus in Chuo-ku; Higashifushimi Campus in Nishitokyo; Tokorozawa Campus in Tokorozawa; Honjo Campus in Honjo, Saitama; and Kitakyushu Campus in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka.The university has more than fifty thousand students and staff, comprising 13 undergraduate schools, 23 graduate schools, and other research and affiliated institutes, and is one of the 13 universities in the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's ""Global 30"" Project. It has partnerships with more than 600 universities and tertiary institutions, with many international students studying abroad at Waseda University each year.Established in 1882 as the Tōkyō College by Okuma Shigenobu, the school was renamed Waseda University in 1902 after the founder's hometown village.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, FinTech, Big Data
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zuva KK — Zuva KK provides an information platform dedicated to overseas startups based on the project.
  • ZAISAN Net — ZAISAN Net is the well-known leading AI-Fintech startup in Japan, specializing in handling time-series of data like stock price movements. Institutional investors benefit from ZAISAN Net’s AI forecast signals and alerts while consumers have access to Kabuto-yohou, the stock forecast from wall-street in Japan, which is already popular and has beenintroduced on World Business Satellite, TV program similar to CNN.
  • SymBio Pharmaceuticals — SymBio Pharmaceuticals Limited operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It offers Symbenda medicine for treating low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphatic leukemia in Singapore. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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SPARX Innovation for the Future
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

SPARX Innovation for Future Co.,Ltd. was established in April 2020. We will build and verify temporary investment (investment intelligence) in new areas, centered on space, and make investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
  • Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
  • Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
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TIS Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series C, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Credify — Credify serviceX enables digital ecosystem operators to offer attractive and contextual financial services, built on top of a verified digital identity platform
  • Pixmoving — PIX Moving develop and manufacture the next-gen smart vehicles powered by its proprietary Ultra-skateboard chassis platform. PIX is an innovator and global leader of groundbreaking smart connected vehicles. Based on the research and development of PIX Ultra-skateboard chassis platform, a wide range of purpose-built robo-vehicles, commercialvehicles and passenger cars can be built and developed. Currently PIX products have expanded to 20 countries around the world and the company is growing rapidly. With the modular architecture, PIX products are more smart and flexible, covering 30+ application scenarios worldwide, which makes PIX a full-stack autonomous driving company with the most versatile scenario solutions. Moreover , PIX has developed the award-winning large-scale in-house metal 3D printing system, the dieless forming system as well as the real-time manufacturing. Combined with its patented vehicle generative design algorithms, PIX is capable of reducing vehicle parts and the assembly work by 70%, which enables easier maintenance and meanwhile disrupts the automotive industry from design to manufacturing, beaconing the next-generation of smart vehicle production.
  • Aino Indonesia — Aino Indonesia is a payment processing company and system integrator for public transportation.
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Resona Bank
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Resona Bank provides various banking products and services for individual and corporate customers in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • YTGATE — YTGATE is a payment optimization support SaaS product that can be started by adding a single tag line to a website.
  • Landit — Landit manages transportation infrastructure and real estate technology firms.
  • 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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Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund. It is co-managed by Global Brain Corporation and Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Big Data, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • Ichirou — Ichirou provides digital senior care support services to connect elderly people with caretakers. It offers caretaker services for different types of support, including housework, hospital care, nursing, hospital and doctor visits, and shopping assistance.
  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
  • AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Konoike Transport
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Konoike Transport is a transportation company. They offer centerrial process services, including distribution centre contracting, warehouse management, distribution, safety supervision, onsite manufacturing processes at steelworks, and factory line operation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Software, Logistics
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hacobu — Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform toaccumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.
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Community Healthcare Coordination Platform
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

CHCP is a roll-up platform for pharmacies.The focus of CHCP Pharmacy's business is the consolidation of community pharmacies in Japan.

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Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SouSou — SouSou is a digital service designed to empower individuals in building and managing their financial well-being. By combining traditional community savings practices with modern technology, SouSou helps users take control of their finances, plan for the future, and shape their fortune through smart, collaborative financial strategies.
  • Boston Medical Sciences — Boston Medical Sciences conducts research, prevention, and diagnostics procedures to eliminate colorectal cancer deaths.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
  • Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
  • ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
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Old Fashion Research
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Old Fashion Research is a multi-strategy blockchain investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ZKON Network — Zero Knolwedge protocol to attract volume and liquidity
  • BioSNARKS — ZK-proof for biotech and DeSci
  • Amnis Finance — Stake APT on the best liquid staking protocol on Aptos to receive daily rewards with an attractive APR of 9%.
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Aizawa Asset Management
VC Fund · Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Striving to become the leading Japanese alternative asset management company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Real Estate, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Hiroshi Sawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Joined Fujitsu Limited in 1991, after working at Osaka City University's Faculty of Science. He has a wide range of business experience, from programming to new business development, such as developing Internet services. After that, engaged in IT-related new business development at Sojitz Corporation, and at a major business investmentcompany, engaged in business investment in venture companies, creation of business plans for companies, launching new services, and M & A. In 2008, he became an outside director of eLicense Corporation. In 2009, he was appointed Representative Director of Data Section Co., Ltd. after developing a trend analysis service utilizing big data. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers on December 24, 2014. Outside director of Japan Data Exchange, Inc. Currently, he is an outside director of Solid Intelligence Co., Ltd. In June 2018, he became chairman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Big Data, Analytics
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.
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Tokusui
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Tokusui operates in the Trade business, Food business, Restaurant business, Real estate business, Financial business, and Consulting business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Internet of Things, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet Way — Planetway is a Individual data driven social innovation company. Planetway data can be used in a manner that is favorable to oneself and society by allowing data to be disclosed to third parties on a voluntary basis under the personal consent of the individual (“Data personal sovereignty” A new era ”). And Planetway aim to realize a society beyondcapitalism that will come in the near future.
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Big Data Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 144 deals from 252 investors.

252
investors
in Japan Big Data startups
144
deals
in Japan Big Data startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Big Data startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage
92/8
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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