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Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Japan in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Japan in September 2025

Investor Blockchain Japan investments
Ceres 5
MIRAISE 4
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Mask Network 3
Komura Fujio 2
MZ Web3 Fund 2
Monex Ventures 2
Presto Labs 2
DIMENSION 2
KSK Angel Fund 2
Gmjp 2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 2
SMBC Venture Capital 2
Triatomic Capital 2
MT Partners 2
Sotaro Karasawa 2
F Ventures 2
Kazutaka Muraguchi 2
Shima Capital 2
Yokohama Capital 2
JAFCO 2
PE&HR 2
Evolution Equity Partners 1
K2 Access Fund 1
Folius Ventures 1
Dragonfly 1
Monday Capital 1
Coconala Skill Partners 1
Sora Ventures 1
Sansei Capital Investment 1
MTG Ventures 1
Emoote 1
IMO Ventures 1
J-CAM engineering corporation 1
Meteorite Labs 1
COSIMO Ventures 1
Smrti Lab 1
Galaxy Interactive 1
Fujiyo Ishiguro 1
All Star SAAS Fund 1
Polygon Studios 1
Republic capital 1
Ziqi Jerry Zhou 1
GSR 1
WAGMI Ventures 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 1
Cygames 1
Parallel Ventures 1
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Ceres VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
MIRAISE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments 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
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States
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.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 40 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
Mask Network VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • GamerBoom — GamerBoom is an artificial intelligence-driven protocol for gaming data analytics, developed on the Solana blockchain.
  • Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
  • Coral Finance — Coral Finance is a decentralized marketplace for trading premium derivatives that offers dependable, long-term liquidity solutions.
Komura Fujio Angel
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.
MZ Web3 Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Accredited Venture Capital backing Japan Market Entry for All Web3 projects.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
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 — Experience predictable yields and secure fixed-rate solutions with Term Structure. Join us to leverage fixed-term lending, borrowing, and maximizing your DeFi returns.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Presto Labs VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Presto is an algorithmic trading firm where researchers and engineers solve challenging problems in global financial markets.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Singapore, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
  • Orochi Network — Orochi Network's Verifiable Data Infrastructure is a promising step towards a more secure, scalable, and user-friendly Web3.
  • Infinity Ground — Infinity Ground Technology supports developers in using AI with Web3, making these technologies accessible to all.
DIMENSION VC Fund · Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Content
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, India, Romania
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.
KSK Angel Fund VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
  • Buyandship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Gmjp VC Fund
gmjp is a web3 fund.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
  • Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
  • Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
  • Asymmetry Finance — The Home of The High-Yield Customized Stablecoins
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • Pahr Therapeutics — PAhR Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company advancing innovative therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) through novel biological mechanisms.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 39 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
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.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
Triatomic Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Founder-driven venture capital firm helping great entrepreneurs build 'century-defining' businesses & technologies. Focused on deep tech, health tech, new economy, and AI.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
  • Elegen — Skip cloning with NGS-verified, cell-free DNA up to 7 kb. Error rates as low as 1:70,000/bp. Manufactured in USA, shipped globally in 6 to 8 business days. .
  • iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.
MT Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Beauty, Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
  • Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.
Sotaro Karasawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
F Ventures VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Kazutaka Muraguchi Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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 — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Shima Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
  • Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
  • Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.
Yokohama Capital VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
JAFCO VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • LayerX — LayerX which promotes the digitization of business processes utilizing technologies such as blockchain technology.
  • Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
PE&HR VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Fashion
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
  • Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
  • BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
Evolution Equity Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Evolution Equity Partners is an international venture capital investor leveraging deep sector expertise to help exceptional entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies. The firm has a focus on cyber-security, enterprise software and consumer related opportunities and brings significant resources to portfolio companies seeking to expand ininternational markets. Evolution Equity Partners has invested in well-known companies including AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Carbon Black, Onapsis, Security Scorecard, Cognitive Security, DF Labs, 60K Group and others. The firm purchases both primary and secondary shares investing in high growth businesses across multiple stages, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. Visit us at www.evolutionequity.com or follow us on Twitter at @EvolutionEquity
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Investment focus
  • Cyber Security, Software, Network Security
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Backline AI — Backline AI agents automatically deploy trustworthy code and configuration changes at scale, freeing your team from impossible backlogs.
  • Halcyon — Halcyon is the cyber resilience platform that Global 2000 companies rely upon to defeat ransomware-as-a-service-borne attacks. With the fastest endpoint recovery methods ever built and multiple layers of resiliency, including bypass and evasion protection, key capture and automated decryption, and data extortion prevention, the Halcyon platform enables attacks to be undone in minutes.
  • Torq — Torq is the only no-code, low-code, and full-code security automation with true enterprise scalability. 10X faster than SOAR.
K2 Access Fund VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
K2 Access Fund is a co-investment venture fund focused on early stage startups ranging from Seed to Series A/B/C rounds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Cloud Computing
  • Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AuthMind — AuthMind, an innovator in identity security, prevents identity-related cyberattacks. It's an Identity SecOps Platform including Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). It works anywhere and deploys in minutes.
  • Corvic AI — Corvic AI is pioneering a new era of Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure by transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence.
  • Anello Photonics — Anello Photonics is founded by pioneers in silicon photonics and inertial navigation. The patented Anello SiPhOG gyroscope offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by leading venture capital firms.
Folius Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • ARAI — ARAI is a framework designed for the integration of artificial intelligence within the gaming industry.
  • GOAT Gaming — GOAT Gaming is the developer of a gaming platform that allows gamers to enjoy a variety of games as well as compete for rewards.
  • Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
Dragonfly VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • USD.AI — USD.AI is a stablecoin protocol at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence.
  • Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
  • Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
Monday Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Venture Capital with a focus on Blockchain, AI and VR
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Gibraltar, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
  • Hera Biotech — Hera Biotech is a biotechnology company that is mainly developed for women's health and reproductive medicines. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
  • Dandelion Science — The central nervous system is one of the most complex biological pathways. At Dandelion, we are working to target the data pathways of the brain with the potential to reimagine the paradigm.
Coconala Skill Partners VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Sora Ventures VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Sora Ventures is Asia's leading investment firm dedicated to blockchain technology and digital asset. The firm has several businesses including early-stage investments, incubation, advisory, secondary trading, and blockchain conferences.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.
  • Satflow — Satflow aims to improve Bitcoin DEXs, enhance decentralization, and address issues like lack of advanced order types, high-speed data, and liquidity pools.
  • StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Sansei Capital Investment VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Software, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • ASOVIEW Inc. — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
MTG Ventures VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
Emoote VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
"Entertain the world. Resonate with creators" Emoote is a Web3 venture capital firm based in Singapore and Tokyo. Focuses on Entertainment, Media and Lifestyle.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Web3
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • XPLA — XPLA, Universal Content Powerhouse for a Sublime Creative Experience. Layer 1 blockchain that serves as a hub for digital media content.
  • Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating the World Abstraction Layer for AI and AI Agents.
  • The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.
IMO Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, China, Singapore
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.
J-CAM engineering corporation VC Fund · Rajkot, Gujarat, India
J-CAM engineering corporation manufatures cams, camshafts, tappets and Gears.
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
  • Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • BLOCKSMITH&Co — BLOCKSMITH&Co. is developing and distributing of Game&SocialFi services such as blockchain technology, crypto assets and virtual currency utilising NFTs on the Web3
Meteorite Labs VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Measure & Predict with Meteorite Labs
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Fashion
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
  • Aki Network — Aki offers a web3 growth stack to track actual influencer promotion results using on-chain data-driven goods. A variety of products and services have been developed by Aki Network to enable more users and influencers to participate in high-quality project campaigns and get commensurate compensation.
  • Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.
COSIMO Ventures VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
COSIMO digital, previously COSIMO Ventures, is a pioneering digital asset management firm offering asset management, advisory, custody, broker-dealer, and blockchain and Web3 development services.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Blockchain, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Defactor — Globally empowering businesses to tokenise real-world assets by offering decentralised open-source financial technology. Unlock a new financial future.
  • ICHI — Grow any token with low-slippage, on-chain liquidity
  • BEASY — BEASY Wallet & Forge makes it easy for collectors and creators to mint, buy, sell, trade, and manage their own NFTs. No crypto knowledge required!
Smrti Lab VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
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
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Japan, Singapore
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.
Galaxy Interactive VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Finland, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aria — Aria is a role-playing game in which players can freely traverse an open world while experiencing the thrill of epic quests and combat.
  • Overworld — Forge your destiny in our upcoming free-to-play cross-platform multiplayer RPG.
  • Build A Rocket Boy — We are a diverse, multinational group of developers, dedicated to making an all-new multi-world gaming experience, EVERYWHERE and MindsEye.
Fujiyo Ishiguro Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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 Ltd — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
All Star SAAS Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 14 investments in the past 12 months
All Star SAAS Fund is a Japan-based SaaS specialized fund that provides support programs centered on "people".
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • NutmegLabs — NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • VARIETAS — VARIETAS establishes a modern version of a conviviality system in cooperation with each stakeholder to face everyone's career. We create the online platform called Iverse, where students and working adults gather, where anyone can find and shape their interests. By forming an Opportunity Web in this virtual town, you can gain practicalexperience that matches your interests and build your skills.In the town, you can make all decisions based on your own interests, so you can create your own output. And as outputs are produced one after another, the town will continually evolve.
Polygon Studios VC Fund
Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
  • Anima — A new way to play.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
Republic capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Republic Capital is driven by a multifaceted value proposition and invests in companies across deep tech, fintech, and web3.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Hone Health — Hone Health provides telehealth services that support hormone health and longevity, including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)
  • Sentient — Community-built open AGI
  • Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
Ziqi Jerry Zhou Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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.
GSR VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 23 investments in the past 12 months
GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
  • Doppler Finance — Doppler Finance is a yield-earning platform that unlock earning opportunities within the XRPL ecosystem
  • 180 Life Sciences — Born from Ethereum. Built for everyone
WAGMI Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Join our syndicate to gain access to venture backed web3 startups. WAGMI Ventures is a global syndicate of 10,000+ strategic execs from some of the largest crypto companies giving founders distribution partners.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Irys — Irys is a Layer-1 blockchain combining low-cost storage, verifiable compute, and AI coordination in a single network.
  • Gata — Gata uses data technology to develop superintelligence and to ensure its alignment with human objectives.
  • Questflow — Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
aucfan Co.,Ltd. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, France
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.
  • Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
Cygames VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Cygames engages in animation creation services and mobile game applications development.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Content, FinTech
  • Corporate Round, Seed, Series D
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
  • Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
Parallel Ventures VC Fund
Crypto investment fund
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Email, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
  • Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.
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