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Top 50 Big Data VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$142M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical $3M–$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 $709k–$71M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$369M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $4.5M–$425M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$369M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.1M–$85M
m8 Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, Apps $1M–$7.2M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$255M
Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Canada Series A, Series B Energy, Internet of Things, Software $2.4M–$553M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $104k–$29M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$553M
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, United States, Malaysia Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $775k–$45M
WERU Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Consulting $1.5M–$64M
Dogan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Beauty $6M–$142M
Skyarch Networks
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SaaS, Big Data, Software
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, India Series B, Seed Apps, Manufacturing, Software $4.1M–$992M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet
IMO Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Aizawa Asset Management
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Real Estate, Information Technology
GREE Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Evolable Asia Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Corporate Round, Seed Task Management, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
SPARX Innovation for the Future
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A, Seed Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
WASEDA University Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Convertible Note Laser, Commercial, Manufacturing
MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Dentsu Innovation Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B Information Technology, Marketing, Software
Smrti Lab
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
The Creative Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
OPT
VC Fund
1 Japan, New Zealand, United States Seed, Corporate Round Mobile, Advertising, Apps
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
ASICS Ventures Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Sports $1.8M–$43M
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Morgan Stanley
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Private Equity, Series C Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $15M–$400M
Sky9 Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Medical, Big Data, Health Care
Japanese venture capital
VC Fund
1 India, Japan Seed, Series A Mobile, Retail, Tourism
Mint
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
Waseda University
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Social, FinTech, Big Data
YJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Primal Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet
Salesforce
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Canada Grant, Series A Software, SaaS, Non Profit
Venture United
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Resona Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Debt Financing, Series A Information Technology, Software, Internet
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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: 108
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$31M; Series A $1.9M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hokan — hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents.
  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$85M; Series B $7.7M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
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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: 239
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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: 501
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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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, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 513
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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: 533
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
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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
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
  • Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
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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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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: 293
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$23M; Series A $5M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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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, Internet of Things, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$113M; Series B $8M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
  • Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
  • Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
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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: 1197
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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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, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
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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, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $5.1M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • Flow Solutions — You have to know to grow. Flow’s AI-powered platform focuses retail executives, marketing and store teams on actionable steps to delightful customer experiences. Flow leverages IoT and existing retail data sources to standardize data communication across large retail chains while using AI to enable data-centric decision-making through all levels ofthe organization.
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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

  • ELternal — ELternal develops tourism resources for shrines and temples. Their services include business process support, sns utilisation support, and website creation for temples.
  • 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.
  • Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
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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, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • KabuK Style — KabuK Style provides services that combines co -working spaces, accommodation facilities and cafes.Our service will be started from Nagasaki and We aim to expand the services all over the world.
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Skyarch Networks
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Skyarch Networks offers a multi-service portfolio, including server managing, monitoring, DevOps, and IT consulting. The company focuses on the areas of Internet-of-Things, cloud security, networking, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AlterBooth — AlterBooth develops software centered on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It began operation on March 19, 2015, with its headquarters in Fukuoka in Japan.
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Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data 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 $10M–$81M; Series B $4.1M–$992M
  • 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.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
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IMO Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • Vessel Finance — Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.
  • Merda Biopharma — Merda Biopharma is a AI-enabled drug discovery technology platform that produces small molecule drugs that helps immune metabolism.
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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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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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Evolable Asia Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Evolable Asia operates a comparison site for travel products focused on domestic airline tickets (the largest in the transaction volume industry), as well as providing travel content and products on an OEM basis. It specializes in wholesale and business trip services for corporations, and it is the fifth-largest online travel agent in Japan.Furthermore, it is expanding its IT offshore development business, employing approximately 500 engineers in Vietnam and becoming the largest Japanese IT offshore development company in Southeast Asia. It specializes in lab-type offshore development, with dedicated teams for clients, and provides services to a variety of Japanese companies as a solution to Japan's engineer shortage and rising labor costs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LS Japan — LS Co., Ltd. is a company that plans, operates and manages lifestyle hotels, cafes and bars by launching its own inbound brand using Japanese content .
  • Ancar — Ancar is a company offering personal buying and selling services in Japan.
  • Upsell Technologies — Upsell Technologies is Customer data analysis service platform.
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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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WASEDA University Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

WASEDA University Ventures (WUV) is a venture capital firm specialising in founding investments by creating new start-up companies that make use of academia and are based on "the practical application of scholarship". Our mission is to be a capitalist that implements academic knowledge and

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Laser, Commercial, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VETA — VETA strives to minimize friction caused by value differences in society through cutting-edge social science research.
  • Tres Alchemix — Tres Alchemix is an AI-driven biotechnology company focused on accelerating drug discovery, predicting drug efficacy, and developing novel therapeutic compounds using advanced machine learning and data-driven approaches.
  • Pestalozzi Technology — Pestalozzi Technology is a development and provision of educational products in the fields of physical education and club activities.
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MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Accredited Venture Capital backing Japan Market Entry for All Web3 projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
  • KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
  • Term Structure Labs — Leading fixed-rate platform for crypto lending and borrowing. Serving DeFi users and institutional clients with predictable yields, borrowing costs, and transparent pricing.
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Dentsu Innovation Partners
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Dentsu Innovation Partners manages corporate venture capital funds for Dentsu Group. It is specialized in the digital domain with the objectives of creating a worldwide digital business market and expanding the Dentsu Group's digital businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • Monstar Lab — Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.
  • Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Smrti Lab
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
  • JOJO — JOJO is an on-chain derivatives trading platform that offers decentralized trading solutions and financial instruments over the blockchain.
  • Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
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The Creative Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

The Creative Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 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, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
  • Samansa
  • Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.
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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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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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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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ASICS Ventures Corporation
VC Fund · Kobe, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Welcome to ASICS Ventures website

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$43M; Series A $7.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • RebuilderAI — A new way to bring imagination into the real world
  • Pickleball One — Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world.
  • Digital Entertainment Asset — DEA is an Entertainment Solution Company that continues to propose next-generation solutions to challenges through Web3, gaming mechanisms, and the utilization of DePIN.
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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: 124
  • 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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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: 300
  • 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.
  • Cult Mia — Your guide to designer discovery. We handpick the best fashion from around the world and bring it to you weekly. Our exclusive curated drops feature the most exciting new brands & unique pieces. This is power dressing with staying power.
  • Post Trade Solutions — Post Trade Solutions combines Acadia, Quantile, and SwapAgent to help our clients increase capital efficiency, lower risk, and streamline operations.
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Sky9 Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zhixinda — Zhixinda is a leading high-tech enterprise dedicated to the research, development, and manufacturing of advanced semiconductor vacuum equipment, offering innovative solutions that support the production processes of the global semiconductor industry.
  • Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
  • Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.
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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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Japanese venture capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Japan Venture Capital Association is a trade association that caters to venture capital industry. The association conducts surveys and provides research services. It also prints publications and provides public relation services. Japan Venture Capital Association was founded in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Retail, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • Cacco — Cacco is a SaaS business and consulting company that extracts data for making business decisions from big data. Cacco analyzes big data and provides this data after changing it into a format that is easy to understand and use. The company was founded in 2011 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • 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.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

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: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
  • Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
  • Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.
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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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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
  • Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
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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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Primal Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hivello — Hivello is a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network aggregator. Contribute resources, connect with Web3 protocols, and effortlessly generate passive income.
  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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Salesforce
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service,marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Non Profit
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
  • Mistral AI — Take control of the future with a complete AI solution from platform to interface, with open, customizable models that can be deployed anywhere.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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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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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Big Data 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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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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Big Data VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 129 deals from 223 investors.

223
investors
in Japan Big Data startups
129
deals
in Japan Big Data startups
$22M
median round
in Japan Big Data startups
25%
lead investors
lead at least one round
22%
Seed
most common funding stage

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