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Top 25 Blockchain Angel Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Blockchain startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Blockchain startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Kazutaka Muraguchi
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Blockchain, Financial Services
Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Blockchain, Art $1.7M–$18M
Michael Carter
Angel
1 United States, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Music, Dating
Tomokaz Saito
Angel
1 Japan Angel Finance, Security, Blockchain
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series B, Angel Content, Sports, Human Resources $1.4M–$221M
Bo Shen
Angel
1 United States, Switzerland, China Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.1M–$3.3M
Mizuki Inoue
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel CRM, Finance, Security $4.3M–$45M
Oki Matsumoto
Angel
1 Japan, Taiwan, Australia Angel, Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Software $2.1M–$20M
James Gong
Angel
1 Japan Seed FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming $320k–$38M
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
1 Japan Series A, Seed Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $3.5M–$33M
Kenji Kasahara
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Aerospace, Education $329k–$8.5M
Batara Eto
Angel
1 Japan, Thailand, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series D FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $2.6M–$7.1M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Kazuma Yamauchi
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Software, Information Technology $1.5M–$2.5M
Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Apps, Finance, Internet $1M–$45M
Yuki Naito
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Internet, Manufacturing, SNS $652k–$38M
Mai Fujimoto
Angel
1 Japan, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Blockchain, Marketplace, Art $1.2M–$8.5M
Ryutaro Katayama
Angel
1 Japan Series A Art, Blockchain, Information Technology
Fujiyo Ishiguro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B Content, Marketing, Blockchain
Kei Yoshikoshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
Uchino Hiroyuki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Blockchain, Information Technology
Muraguchi Tomotaka
Angel
1 Japan Seed Artificial Intelligence $5.7M–$8.5M
Justin Waldron
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Chile Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
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Kazutaka Muraguchi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Kazutaka Muraguchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
  • Gruff
  • Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elaly — Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
  • 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.
  • OPERA TECH
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Michael Carter
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Dating
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Callback — Callback is building a next-generation loyalty platform for independent stores
  • Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.
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Tomokaz Saito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Tomokaz Saito - Corporate Legal Manager @ Mercari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Security, Blockchain
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Perpetuals.com (Formerly 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.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Content, Sports, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$48M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • CAN EAT
  • Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
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Bo Shen
Angel · Jingan, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Bo Shen - Founding/Managing Partner @ Fenbushi Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub — Hub - Human Trust ProtocolBillions of users on the Internet interact with each other every day on messengers, online communities, social networks and peer-to-peer marketplaces, making contact with people they never met let alone trust.By securing trust and decentralizing reputation data on a blockchain, the Internet will offer greater economicvalue to users to gain more opportunities, command higher premiums for their products and services, and get more cooperation from others.
  • AdRealm — UPLTV is the third company by serial entrepreneur, Brian Xie, established in 2017. Xie's earlier ventures, Holaverse, has amassed 390 million users under nine months, setting a new record for Chinese mobile internet companies in overseas markets. Avid.ly, a mobile game publishing company, also gained success under 15 months to becomeChina's largest casino and casual mobile game publisher for overseas markets. UPLTV was established in April 2017, with its headquarters located in Shanghai and additional offices in Seoul and Singapore. UPLTV focuses on global mobile game advertising monetization, providing both intelligent and customized solutions to raise monetization efficiency, outpacing similar platform performance by an additional 20% and more. UPLTV is currently working with over 300 game developers and publishers to realize greater in-app monetization efficiency, totaling over 30 million daily ad display volume. UPLTV will be the first service offered on AdRealm, helping AdRealm drive blockchain technology adoption in digital advertising to build a more open, fair and transparent ecosystem.
  • Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
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Mizuki Inoue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
  • Perpetuals.com (Formerly 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.
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Oki Matsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Angel $2.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
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James Gong
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

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.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$38M; Angel $320k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Pretia Technologies — Pretia is a Internet service planning, development and operation business.
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • 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.
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Aerospace, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$8.5M; Series A $3.1M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicetep
  • AVIATE
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
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Batara Eto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Previously, Batara Eto co-founded Mixi and brought the company public in Japan. He was responsible for creating Mixi in December 2003, and he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mixi until 2008. He started his investment career by co-founding East Ventures and made their first investment in 2010.Batara holds bachelor degree in Computer Sciencefrom Takushoku University Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$7.1M; Series A $2.6M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lanturn — Register your business in Singapore globally. From incorporation services Singapore to business registration for foreigners & locals, we handle it all.
  • 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.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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Kazuma Yamauchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Kazuma Yamauchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Apps, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$45M; Angel $1.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Perpetuals.com (Formerly 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.
  • StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
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Yuki Naito
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Manufacturing, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $652k–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Mai Fujimoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Canada, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Ryutaro Katayama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

He holds a BA in Economics and a Master of Sociology from Keio University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. After regenerating many companies as president, he served as a representative of Giuliani Partners Japan and the president of Japan's oldest and largest art auction company Christie's Japan. He has also served as a number ofprominent corporate outside directors and director of art groups. Participated in the creation of Whiz Partners, a leading venture capital firm, and is still a managing partner of international venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
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Fujiyo Ishiguro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

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.
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Kei Yoshikoshi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Kei Yoshikoshi is the Co-founder of DeForm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Apas Port — Apas Port is an NFT production firm that provides Web3 sessions, straining, and advisory services to clients seeking NFT projects.
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Uchino Hiroyuki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Uchino Hiroyuki - Founder And Chairman @ WingArc1st

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Muraguchi Tomotaka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

Muraguchi Tomotaka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • APTO — APTO is into AI development platform provision business and AI consulting business.
  • Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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Justin Waldron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Blockchain startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Blockchain Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 27 deals from 41 investors.

41
investors
in Japan Blockchain startups
27
deals
in Japan Blockchain startups
$11M
median round
in Japan Blockchain startups
17%
lead investors
lead at least one round
44%
Seed
most common funding stage

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