Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Japan in February 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 February 2025
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
- Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
- SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
- iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
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
- mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Content
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, India, Romania
Portfolio highlights
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
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
- 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.
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.
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, Fashion, Education
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
- VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
- BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
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
- Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
- Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
- Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
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.
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
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
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.
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 — Elegen is powering the bioeconomy with high-accuracy DNA synthesis that delivers industry-leading speed, length, and quality.
- iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.
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
- Torihada — Torihada is a creative firm specializing in influencer marketing, creating content, and digital marketing.
- MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
- Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
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
- Zkcandy — The L2 Gaming ZK Chain supercharged by iCandy Interactive and ZKsync
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Ranger Finance — Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight.
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.
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
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.
MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
- Kasanare — Kasanare is a technology company that offers AI-based business specific cloud services.
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
- Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
- Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
Go beyond the Playground and into an infinite Universe!
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Service Industry
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Singapore, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- XRADERS — Powering informed decision making for investors
- Carv — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
- CARV — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
Promote FinTech ecosystem in Japan by supporting FinTech initiatives of both startup and corporate members. and accelerating open innovation.
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Investment focus
- Data Visualization, Financial Services, Cloud Data Services
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
- Added — Added develops cloud-based management software to share the calculation results of carbon dioxide emissions. The company provides greenhouse gas management services by supporting the strengths of service mesh and data sharing. Its platform also simplifies the aggregation, visualization, and sharing of information related to carbon dioxideemissions.
- Unyte — Unyte offers an integrated platform that enables technological growth in the field of blockchain, as well as the development and proficient management of DAOs.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
- AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
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
- Oleria — Meet Oleria, a new security approach that adapts to your organization and enables you to achieve business outcomes without compromising innovation.
- Metomic — Metomic detects, classifies and controls sensitive data in cloud applications to simplify compliance and offer security peace-of-mind.
- 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.
Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- PITTAN — PITTAN is a health tech startup that focuses on the development of high-speed analytical equipment for use in the healthcare industry. The company's primary service is to analyze the internal status of an individual's body to promote beautiful and healthy skin. This is achieved through the application of analytical chemistry.PITTAN's services are designed to provide insights into the body's health, which can be used to inform personal care and wellness decisions.
- Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
- Unyte — Unyte offers an integrated platform that enables technological growth in the field of blockchain, as well as the development and proficient management of DAOs.
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
- 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.
- PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.
Bitfinex is the longest-running and most liquid major cryptocurrency exchange. Founded in 2012, it has become the go-to platform for traders & institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Chile, India
Portfolio highlights
- Orionx — Cryptocurrency exchange
- DM2C Studio — This is a web3 project by DMM Crypto,a group company of DMM. The project will be propelling New Entertainment Frontiers in the Digital Realm using proprietary tokens.
- Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
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.
GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Security, Blockchain
- Seed
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Codatta — Codatta operates as an AI-powered collaboration protocol for blockchain metadata.
- Deagent AI — DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network to create a decentralized network platform.
- Mint Blockchain — Mint Blockchain uses NFT assets and offers Web3 developers infrastructure services like as NFT asset issuance, trading, indexing, and storage.
Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ecommit — Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis
- Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- ShareX — ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
- 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.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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, Task Management
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
- Fairy Devices — Fairy Devices is providing multilingual speech translation engine for station guidance robots.
- Knowledge Palette — Knowledge Palette is a start-up company that conducts business of regenerative medicine cells.
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
- mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
- EVAA Protocol — The first decentralized lending protocol on TON that lets users lend or borrow assets without going to a centralized intermediary.
- Prime Protocol — Prime Protocol is a decentralized multiple blockchain prime brokerage that allows to borrow against the value of the entire portfolio across all blockchains.
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 .
Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
- CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.
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.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
- Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
NRI-short for the Nomura Research Institute-is a class-leading business consultancy and technology solution firm headquartered in Tokyo. With 50 years of experience in systems and strategies, they have grown from boutique financial IT specialist to Japan's leading consulting and technology solution firm.Nomura Research Institute itsinception about 40 years ago, NRI has always been on the cutting edge. Whether by advising policy proposals and corporate strategies or promoting new system development and management, they have always strived to push the boundaries and explore new horizons. At NRI, they are dedicated to helping provide their clients with new business models in the 21st century.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- Komainu — Komainu is a regulated digital asset custody services provider.
- Blockchain Lock(BCL) — They are a technical group specialized in block chains and IoTs established by many experienced management teams in the Internet, block chain and IoT industry. As the first member company of the BCL Foundation with the mission of "Unlock the World" meaning to unlock the world, they will make the world based on Tokyo a more secure andconvenient one with block chains and IoT's power I will change it.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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.
Building enjoyable web3 products.
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- Web3, Gaming, Blockchain
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Singapore, United States
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- Matr1x — Matr1x is the first-ever mobile shooting game in the Web3 industry.
- Dill — Dill is a scalable data availability network. The modular network is fully compatible with the Danksharding roadmap
- HackQuest — HackQuest is a multi-chain Web3 developer and founder platform, with education, community events, hackathons, and accelerators at its core. HackQuest helps over 20 leading ecosystems such as Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, and Linea onboard quality developers and supports developers to jumpstart their careers in Web3.
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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- Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, Finland
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- 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.
- Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
- Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
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- NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
- Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
- Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, India, Hong Kong
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- Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
- Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
- Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.
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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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
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- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- JOJO — JOJO is an on-chain derivatives trading platform that offers decentralized trading solutions and financial instruments over the blockchain.
- Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
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