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Top 50 Blockchain VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2025

A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2025

Investor Blockchain Japan investments
Ceres 5
MIRAISE 4
Mask Network 3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 3
Triatomic Capital 2
MZ Web3 Fund 2
F Ventures 2
Mizuho Capital 2
PE&HR 2
Presto Labs 2
Monex Ventures 2
DIMENSION 2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 2
KSK Angel Fund 2
Gmjp 2
Shima Capital 2
Smart Capital 1
J-CAM engineering corporation 1
DeFimans 1
SV FRONTIER 1
WAGMI Ventures 1
Coconala Skill Partners 1
GMO VenturePartners 1
Voyage Group 1
Fundinno 1
Kakao Investment 1
Protocol Labs 1
Evolution Equity Partners 1
DD Holdings Venture Capital 1
Sansei Capital Investment 1
SEICHO 1
B Dash Ventures 1
NAC 1
Galaxy Interactive 1
Stratified Capital 1
Kyowa 1
Giftee 1
Nomura Research Institute 1
MUFG Innovation Partners 1
GSR 1
Meteorite Labs 1
FINOLAB 1
IMO Ventures 1
Sky9 Capital 1
Dragonfly 1
Fundamental Labs 1
Gumi Ventures 1
giftee 1
Japan Post Capital 1
Genesia 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 · 5 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
  • 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.
Mask Network VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 28 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
  • 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.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 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
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, 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.
  • 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.
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 — Elegen is powering the bioeconomy with high-accuracy DNA synthesis that delivers industry-leading speed, length, and quality.
  • 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.
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 — Join Term Structure to experience secure, fixed-rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing in the crypto space.
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.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 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
  • Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
  • Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
PE&HR VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Presto Labs VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 30 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
  • Zkcandy — Zkcandy is an Ethereum-based game network.
  • DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
  • Avalon Finance — The liquidity hub for BTC LSDFi and CeDeFi Lending.Borrow stablecoins at Fixed rates starting as low as 8%.
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
  • Software, Financial Services, 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
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
DIMENSION VC Fund · Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan · 11 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, Seed
  • Japan, India, Romania
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 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
  • Estie — Estie is a Development of AI / machine learning algorithm and new business in real estate company.
  • 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.
KSK Angel Fund VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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 On-Chain High Yield Synthetic Dollar Protocol
Shima Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 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
  • 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.
Smart Capital VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
SMART CAPITAL is an advisory company with professionals who have extensive experience in business investment and corporate management.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • pafin — Cryptact is a technology company providing solutions and platforms utilizing blockchains, smart contracts and virtual currencies.
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
DeFimans VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
DeFimans is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
SV FRONTIER VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
SV FRONTIER was founded in October 2013 in Silicon Valley. It is a VC fund that provides strategic investors with rich functions such as screening, consulting, investing, business development, SV representative functions, and OJT assistance. It invests in SF/Silicon Valley and develops business in Japan. Targeting at Series A companies withstrong revenue traction.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Finance
  • Series B, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • Crowdport, Inc. — Crowdport operates “Funds,” a P2P platform, connecting individual investors who wish to manage their assets with companies that wish to borrow operating funds.
  • ABCash Technologies — ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products.
WAGMI Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 17 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
  • 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.
  • LogX — About LogXLogX is the leading Perpetual DEX on Layer 2 networks. Supported by top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital Coinbase Ventures IOSG Hashed and more LogX combines a simple user friendly interface with extremely fast order matching built on proprietary scalable infrastructure. Currently live on 15+ networks LogX stands out as the mostomnipresent Perp DEX in the market.We offer two distinct products to cater to different types of traders1. LogX Pro: An advanced order book-based platform designed for experienced traders, live on three networks. 2. LogX OG: Featuring an innovative AMM based DAMN pool infrastructure, built for scalability and live on over 10 networks, perfect for new traders.Our Competitive Edge and Uniqueness:- Low Cost High Liquidity Offering: LogX sets a new standard in decentralized trading with unmatched cost efficiency and high liquidity across multiple pairs. - Technological Superiority: Our DAMN-based AMM pool enables rapid deployment of perpetual DEXs on new networks and ecosystems. - AI-Based Trading Bots: We are the first in the perps industry to offer fully functional AI trading bots executing strategies like grid trading.At LogX we prioritize composability seamlessly integrating with other protocols while allowing other protocols to integrate with us. This makes LogX a versatile choice for applications like wallets copy trading platforms and analytics platforms.
  • 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 VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 6 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 .
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Voyage Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Voyage Group is a media and technology business.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Asset Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • CO-WELL Japan — CO-WELL is Offshore development, WEB system development, Smartphone application development, laboratory development.
  • Kokopelli — Kokopelli is a Fintech start-up company that develops the management support platform "SHARES" for small and medium-sized businesses and the AI ​​loan screening engine "FAI" (* 2) that enhances credit for financial institutions.
  • ABCash Technologies — ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products.
Fundinno VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, Health Care
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding, Funding Round
  • Japan, France
Portfolio highlights
  • EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
  • Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
  • Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.
Kakao Investment VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Incorporated in 2015, Kakao Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Kakao which specializes in venture capital investments.Based on Kakao’s philosophy of “Connect Everything”, Kakao Investment seeks to invest and support innovative start-ups that can realize interpersonal connection and the connection of all of us to the things around us. Also KakaoInvestment strives to foster a virtuous circle with in the venture environment by facilitating M&As and IPOs.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • South Korea, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • NPCx — NPCx provides video game developers, designers, data scientists and programmers.
  • Humelo — Humelo develops a voice synthesis and editing program that allows to create and edit AI voice with controllers like emotions and more. The company also develops a K-POP production system utilizing its AI music technology and SM entertainment's global network.
  • rabbit — Revolutionizing human-machine interaction
Protocol Labs VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Akave — Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces.
  • Randamu — making previously impossible distributed applications DePINdable!
  • Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.
Evolution Equity Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 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
  • Cytactic — Cytactic is a cyber crisis management company that provides advisory, cyber crisis simulation, and posture assessment services.
  • Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
  • Torq — Torq is the only no-code, low-code, and full-code security automation with true enterprise scalability. 10X faster than SOAR.
DD Holdings Venture Capital VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Ethereum, Education
  • Series A
  • 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.
  • Knowledge Merchants Works — Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”.
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.
SEICHO VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SEICHO engages in logistics outsourcing and consulting businesses. It pperates a distribution center (approximately 10,000 tsubo) based in Kashiwa City and Noda City, Chiba Prefecture, and Tsukubamirai City, Ibaraki Prefecture.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, FinTech, Security
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • keychain — Keychain is the decentralized authentication blockchain platform for finance, IoT, and enterprise. Keychain provides a Decentralized Authentication Platform (tm) that allows clients to solve concrete business problems related to authentication and access control in a way that enhances and integrates cleanly into existing systems and processes.Seamless integration, instead of replacement, is a key advantage to achieving wide adoption of this powerful innovation.They are a technology company that believes in fortifying operational integrity in finance, IoT, and enterprise through well-engineered, business solutions.They do that by applying the blockchain concept in a new way to concrete business problems that they understand through long experience in financial technology infrastructure.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, 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.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
NAC VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
NAC engages in delivery-related businesses such as home delivery and Duskin, and residential-related businesses.Since the company's founding, it has been engaged in various businesses. Starting with Duskin, NAC entered the environmental hygiene business for restaurants, architectural consulting utilizing the customer base, and in 2002, andthen home sales and home water distribution business. Furthermore, in 2013, JIMOS Co., Ltd., which handles the mail-order business, was grouped, and NAC's business is developing as a "useful company for living" centered on the two axes of living and living.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Legal, Medical
  • Series A, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • INNOPHYS — INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planningto expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
  • wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Robot Consulting Co., Ltd — [Metaverse, Intellectual Property, Legal Tech, SaaS] Robot Consulting Introduction Video>>> https://youtu.be/URCrcZ45lbY , Youtube Channel>>> https://www.youtube.com/@robotconsulting , Press Releases>>> https://robotconsulting.net/en-news/
Galaxy Interactive VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 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, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
  • DeltaStream — Deltastreasm is a secure and scalable unified streaming data platform driven by SQL - built for teams to process and share easily.
  • OpenOrigins — OpenOrigins delivers pixel perfect content authentication at the source. We verify visual media authenticity at its origin, reinstating believability as a non-negotiable in the media we consume every day.
Stratified Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Stratified Capital is a blockchain venture capital with its headquarter in Singapore. The fund aims to provide seed investment and incubation to early-stage blockchain related projects to get higher alpha and bring new vehicle to investors into adiversified & institutional-quality portfolio of digital assets.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Malaysia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BAC Games — BAC Games is a video game company that focuses on the Web3 platform. The company's software is based on blockchain technology and employs token-based digital game economics, allowing players to stake cryptocurrencies and gain financial rewards while playing.
  • Turingbitchain — Turingbitchain is the creator of a decentralized blockchain contract platform that integrates Web3-era concepts. The company's technology uses the UTXO and POW models to achieve great performance and robust decentralization.
  • Multiple Network — Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.
Kyowa VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kyowa provides health and beauty care products to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Finance, Computer
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Hmcomm — Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutescreation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology.
  • lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
  • earlyworks — Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security.
Giftee VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Giftee is a service that makes it simple to give gifts via the internet. They offer simple presents that may be sent right away along with sentiments like thank you, congrats, and excellent job. via line, twitter, email, etc., It is a method for creating redeemable eGifts that can be used in stores as well as for selling the created eGifts on thewebsite of your business.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Blockchain, Web Design
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
Nomura Research Institute VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
MUFG Innovation Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
GSR VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 36 investments in the past 12 months
GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
  • Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
  • Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
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.
FINOLAB VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
  • 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.
IMO Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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 Labs — 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.
  • Insight Technology — Insight Technology is an instrument manufacturer and seller company that specializes in instrument sales, intelligent instrument sales, mechanical equipment research and development, and more.
Sky9 Capital VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • SnakeLite — Snake Lite is a classic arcade snake game with a competitive edge and offers offline and online play. It is designed for smooth controls and fast performance.
  • Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
  • Zhihe Computing — Zhihe Computing is an AI intelligent computing company that develops high-performance, scalable AI intelligent computing CPUs and RISC-V processors.
Dragonfly VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 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
  • 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.
Fundamental Labs VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Gumi Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • 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.
giftee VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Internet, CRM
  • Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
  • WAmazing — WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Japan Post Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ZEALS — ZEALS, a production company that attracts attention in system development of an interactive automatic communication tool "chatbot", which is widely used even for corporate user service. Its success also embodied "zeal" which means "enthusiasm" that got the name of the company, and fulfilled student entrepreneurshipfrom the great enthusiasm that "I want to support the revival of the Japanese industry with core technology in the IT field". They seem to be somewhat sailing, but they also taste various hardships and hardships. About ZEALS original step and future in terms of the young company's middle age in the mid 20's, the mission and development commitment imposed on himself.
  • ecommit — Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis
  • Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
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.
  • Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
  • Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.
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