Top 25 Blockchain Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Blockchain startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Blockchain Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
Investor | Blockchain Japan investments |
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Komura Fujio | 2 |
Sotaro Karasawa | 2 |
Yuichi Kawasaki | 1 |
Mizuki Inoue | 1 |
Makoto Takano | 1 |
Yamazaki Reijiro | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
James Gong | 1 |
Kenji Kasahara | 1 |
Oki Matsumoto | 1 |
Justin Waldron | 1 |
Fujiyo Ishiguro | 1 |
Hironao Kunimitsu | 1 |
Batara Eto | 1 |
Uchino Hiroyuki | 1 |
Tomokaz Saito | 1 |
Yuki Naito | 1 |
Bo Shen | 1 |
Kazuma Yamauchi | 1 |
Kazutaka Muraguchi | 1 |
Michael Carter | 1 |
Kei Yoshikoshi | 1 |
Shigeru Urushibara | 1 |
Ziqi Jerry Zhou | 1 |
Mai Fujimoto | 1 |
Komura Fujio
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Investment focus
- Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Finance, Security
- Angel, Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
- AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan
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Investment focus
- CRM, Finance, Security
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kudan — Kudan has been providing proprietary Artificial Perception technologies based on SLAM to enable use cases with significant market potential and impact on our lives such as autonomous driving, robotics, AR/VR and smart cities
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
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Investment focus
- Content, Sports, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, Philippines
Yamazaki Reijiro - Chairman @ Anymarry
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Investment focus
- CRM, Finance, Security
- Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Ming Gong the Co-Founder of ChainB, is widely recognized on the internet under the pseudonym ""rage prince Gong."" Ming graduated with a degree in math and specializes in IT and financial securities analysis. He has many years of experience in IT and finance, and focused mainly on industry study and investment analysis whileserving at the Delong Group. In 2012, he began devoting his time to the development of digital currency and the blockchain industry. Additionally, he translated a large amount of relative materials and wrote the blockchain white paper. His publications includes ""Blockchain Society,"" ""Blockchain - A New Economic Blueprint,"" and ""Digital Currency"" etc. Ming participated in the development and investment of many blockchain and digital asset programs, and created the new media company ChainB, which has become influential in the blockchain industry.Currently Ming serves as Vice President of the Beijing Blockchain Technology Application Association. He is also a member of the Internet Finance Association - Blockchain Group, as well as Senior Researcher at China Blockchain Study Alliance. He is a member of the IT professional committee at the Chinese Securities Investment Fund Association, and member at the Policy Committee of the Quantchain Foundation, with several other positions.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Global Risk Exchange — Global Risk Exchange (or "GRE") is a blockchain based, decentralized and open global risk exchange market, with the purpose of helping individuals, companies and organizations to access and trade and manage their risks. GRE completely reconstructed traditional risk management tools(insurance and derivative contracts) in a decentralizedway, and will become the underlying operation system to support insurance and derivative transactions in the era of blockchain. GRE aims to build the infrastructure and trading platform for risk management industry in the blockchain driven world in the near future, by providing a fundamental protocol for the creation of risk events, pricing, trading, information collection and oracles to verdict specific risks. It will enable individuals and institutions around the globe to achieve risk and return equilibrium.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Oki Matsumoto began his career at Salomon Brothers Asia Limited in April 1987. He then joined Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd. in April 1990 and was appointed General Partner of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. in November 1994. As a General Partner, he was Co-Head of its Tokyo Branch’s FX & Fixed Income Business and was in charge of FX and fixedincome products and the related risk management. It was in April 1999 that Matsumoto jointly established (the former) Monex, Inc. with Sony Corporation. In August 2004, Matsumoto become the Representative Director and CEO of the Company (former name: Monex Beans Holdings, Inc.) upon its formation through management integration of Monex, Inc. and Nikko Beans Inc. He was named the Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of the Company in February 2011 and then assumed his current position in June 2013.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
- WATASHIHA — WATASHIHA is a communication company.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
Fujiyo Ishiguro is a President & CEO at Netyear Group Corp.
Fujiyo Ishiguro After working at Brother Industries and Swarovski Japan, Ms. Ishiguro founded a high-tech specialty consulting firm in Silicon Valley and advised clients such as Yahoo!, Netscape, Panasonic, and Sony on US-Japan alliances and technology transfers. She is a foundingmember of Netyear Group in US and Japan, devising comprehensive digital marketing solutions for corporate clients that resolve fundamental business issues as CEO. The company was listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2008. Ms. Ishiguro graduated the School of Economics at Nagoya University and received an MBA from Stanford University. She had been a member of the Government committee for the past several years, such as Cabinet Office “The future to choose” Committee, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) “IoT” Committee, and so on.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Blockchain
- Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Netyear — Netyear offers a variety of strategic internet professional services that lead brands to their business innovation in the digital age. The company’s service portfolio includes strategic consulting, communication design, web development, data analysis, mobile application development, social media marketing, and more. Its clients include KDDI,Skyperfect TV, NHK Educational, and Recruit.Netyear was founded in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Cinnamon AI — Cinnamon AI develops AI-based business platforms to extend human potential by eliminating repetitive tasks. Cinnamon AI offers a computer system that has human intelligence such as academic, recognition, and judgment that helps to select appropriate and flexible correspondence according to the partner and circumstances, based on patternsaccumulated as data, allowing users to focus on creative work.
- SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Content, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Batara Eto was the Co-founder and Managing Partner at East Ventures. Batara Eto attended Takushoku University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Lanturn — Streamline your company incorporation. We assist both locals and foreigners in hassle-free, ACRA-compliant incorporation. Contact us today.
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Uchino Hiroyuki - Founder And Chairman @ WingArc1st
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Tomokaz Saito - Corporate Legal Manager @ Mercari
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Investment focus
- Finance, Security, Blockchain
- Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Internet, SNS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
- Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
Bo Shen - Founding/Managing Partner @ Fenbushi Capital
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, China
Portfolio highlights
- Hibit — Hibit is a Layer-1 blockchain that is specifically developed for AI agents and next-generation financial technology solutions.
- Web3Port — Web3port BUILDS tools CONNECTING Web3.0 startups and contributors to ACCELERATE innovation.
- Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
Kazuma Yamauchi
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Investment focus
- Content, Art, Social Media
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sozi — The core members of Sozi are information technology experts. I have been involved in communication and web service development in the information society. On the other hand, each is familiar with many contents such as manga, anime, and illustrations .
- Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
- Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
Kazutaka Muraguchi
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Gruff —
- Crypto asset market —
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Dating
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, South Korea
Kei Yoshikoshi is the Co-founder of DeForm.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Apas Port — Apas Port is an NFT production firm that provides Web3 sessions, straining, and advisory services to clients seeking NFT projects.
Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Task Management, Social Media
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Ziqi Jerry Zhou is the partner at Puzzle Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Security, Blockchain, Network Security
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 is an open protocol designed for content and social networks in the Web 3.0 era.
- GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
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