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Top 50 Blockchain VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 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 November 2024

Investor	Blockchain Japan investments
Ceres	5
MIRAISE	4
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Mask Network	3
F Ventures	2
Shima Capital	2
Monex Ventures	2
Mizuho Capital	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
Gmjp	2
Presto Labs	2
KSK Angel Fund	2
PE&HR	2
MZ Web3 Fund	2
Triatomic Capital	2
Giftee	1
Nomura Research Institute	1
Folius Ventures	1
COSIMO Ventures	1
MUFG Innovation Partners	1
Emoote	1
GSR	1
IDATEN Ventures	1
Meteorite Labs	1
ChenXin Technology	1
D4V	1
Quantum Leaps Ventures	1
FE Invest	1
AMBITION Group	1
Marblex	1
FINOLAB	1
IMO Ventures	1
TIS Japan	1
Sky9 Capital	1
Old Fashion Research	1
NOW Japan	1
Dragonfly	1
SLD Entertainment	1
Fundamental Labs	1
Nippon Technology Venture Partners	1
SBI Group	1
LD Capital	1
Gumi Ventures	1
giftee	1
Japan Post Capital	1
Smrti Lab	1
Genesia Ventures	1
DFund	1
MTG Ventures	1
Cygames	1

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Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

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.

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!

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
RECOTECH — RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nepoe — Nepoe is an AI technology developer that offers Gen-AI platforms and services to help enterprises harness the potential of AI/ML for their business users and customers.
Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
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.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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.

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.

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.

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
SUN METALON — Next Generation Sustainable Metal Manufacturing

gmjp is a web3 fund.

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 Supercharged Staking & Synthetic Dollar Protocol

Presto Labs is a quantitative trading firm building automated trading systems fueled by data-driven quantitative analysis and delivering sustainable returns.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
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.
Echo Protocol — Echo is a versatile protocol that specializes in bridging, liquid staking and restaking, and yield solutions.

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

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.

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.

Accredited Venture Capital backing Japan Market Entry for All Web3 projects.

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 — Borrow and Lend with Certainty & Flexibility

Founder-driven venture capital firm helping great entrepreneurs build 'century-defining' businesses & technologies. Focused on deep tech, health tech, new economy, and AI.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
Betteromics — The Precision Biomarker and Digital Health Platform

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.

Investment focus

Content, Blockchain, Web Design
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

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.

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.

Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.

COSIMO Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm that focuses on early stage companies seeking to develop disruptive technology, primarily located in Ireland and the United Kingdom. COSIMO has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Our Team have over 100 years of combined entrepreneurial operating and investing experience. We aretechnology pioneers resolute in our mission of helping emerging entrepreneurs build legendary companies. Our mission is to help transform the most promising early stage, Irish and UK technology companies into global leaders that will dominate new market categories or disrupt existing ones. We partner with management teams to help them accelerate and grow into the US market.COSIMO is a team of entrepreneurs that have been at the forefront of value creation for early stage companies over the past 25 years. As technology pioneers, we have developed products used by 100’s of millions of users every day and created many firsts; from the first commercially available financial service on the Internet to the first push notification.

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!

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Obligo — Rid yourself from the burden of security deposits and go deposit-free. Landlords paid instantly on claims, while tenants repay in installments.
Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Broom — Broom ID memberikan pelayanan terbaik untuk pengalaman Jual Beli Mobil Bekas Anda, banyak pilihan Variasi merek dan tipe Mobil Bekas yang berlimpah

"Entertain the world. Resonate with creators" Emoote is a Web3 venture capital firm based in Singapore and Tokyo. Focuses on Entertainment, Media and Lifestyle.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

XPLA — XPLA, Universal Content Powerhouse for a Sublime Creative Experience. Layer 1 blockchain that serves as a hub for digital media content.
Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.

IDATEN Ventures is a VC fund specializing in seed-stage and early-stage startups developing technologies and/or services which will support the following industries: manufacturing, construction, and logistics.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Sales, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Floadia Corporation — Floadia aims to realize artificial intelligence (AI) with semiconductor memory, and is developing semiconductor memory that opens up a new world.

Measure & Predict with Meteorite Labs

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.

ChenXin Technology

Investment focus

News, Blockchain
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Block001.cn — Block001.cn is a blockchain news portal based in China.

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Panalyt — Panalyt bridges the People-Data Gap, enabling real-time, uniform access to relevant people data, reports and insights for CxOs, HR and business managers.People data, including employee interactions and connections is combined with business data, catalyzing new insights and intelligence.Predictive analytics moves the business from reactive toproactive, identifying correlations and points of intervention.The People Enhanced Data movement empowers businesses to leapfrog to data-driven HR decision making, eliminating bias and improving engagement, sales effectiveness, productivity and, as a result, business performance.“Panalyt is the only multi-source analytics platform in our study that also offers ONA to analyze digital collaboration and communication based on passive data. The company further integrates sales and business data, allowing line managers to identify and focus on areas critical to them.” - RedThread Research's People Analytics Tech 2020 Report
SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.

Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.

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.

FE Invest is an investment company in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Finance, Security, Blockchain
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

earlyworks — Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security.

AMBITION is a real estate company that focuses on the rental management business of designer condominiums in the city center. As a Rueste Tech company, AMBITION actively introduces technology, leading the operational efficiency of the real estate industry.

Investment focus

Finance, Security, Blockchain
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

earlyworks — Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security.

Go beyond the Playground and into an infinite Universe!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Service Industry
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
XRADERS — Powering informed decision making for investors XRADERS
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.

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.

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Angel
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
Mirror L2 — Mirror L2 is a decentralized proof of stake (POS) BTC L2 that supports EVM and smart contracts while using BTC as GAS.

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series C, Seed
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Credify — Credify serviceX enables digital ecosystem operators to offer attractive and contextual financial services, built on top of a verified digital identity platform
Pixmoving — PIX Moving develop and manufacture the next-gen smart vehicles powered by its proprietary Ultra-skateboard chassis platform. PIX is an innovator and global leader of groundbreaking smart connected vehicles. Based on the research and development of PIX Ultra-skateboard chassis platform, a wide range of purpose-built robo-vehicles, commercialvehicles and passenger cars can be built and developed. Currently PIX products have expanded to 20 countries around the world and the company is growing rapidly. With the modular architecture, PIX products are more smart and flexible, covering 30+ application scenarios worldwide, which makes PIX a full-stack autonomous driving company with the most versatile scenario solutions. Moreover , PIX has developed the award-winning large-scale in-house metal 3D printing system, the dieless forming system as well as the real-time manufacturing. Combined with its patented vehicle generative design algorithms, PIX is capable of reducing vehicle parts and the assembly work by 70%, which enables easier maintenance and meanwhile disrupts the automotive industry from design to manufacturing, beaconing the next-generation of smart vehicle production.
Aino Indonesia — Aino Indonesia is a payment processing company and system integrator for public transportation.

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.

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.

Old Fashion Research

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.
Amnis Finance — Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives.

Next One for the World.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
Bé-A Japan — Bé-A Japan producer and distributor of fashion accessories. They provide products that include underwear, sanitary napkins, interior goods, fashion accessories, health foods, and cosmetic products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

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.

SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE＆DINING" brand.

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
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.

A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.

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.

Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
Japan, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

COMSA — Comsa is a conduit for future ICOs that want to exist in the COMSA ecosystem. As part of the project, a COMSA team is now already in place to provide companies with consultation, expertise and solutions to support their very own ICOs and implement blockchain technology into their business practices using our Zaif exchange and mijin privateblockchain software, all at the same time, as a one-stop solution.
warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
Gruff —

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
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
DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.

LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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.

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 is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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 is an investment and management financial consulting business.

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”.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
JOJO — JOJO is an on-chain derivatives trading platform that offers decentralized trading solutions and financial instruments over the blockchain.
Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.

DFund is a professional investment company.

Investment focus

Blockchain, B2B, B2C
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bhex.com — BHEX is the next generation digital asset trading platform, with top grade performance of matching system which designed for million level of concurrent transactions. It further evolves to a globally distributed multi-nodes system and provides decentralized custody and clearing services of digital assets to institutional and retail investorstransparently.
WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
Lambda — Lambda is a fast, safe, and scalable blockchain infrastructure project, which provides decentralized applications (DAPPs) data storage capabilities with unlimited scalability and fulfills services such as multi-chain data co-storage, cross-chain data management, data privacy protection, PDP, and distributed intelligent computing through logicdecoupling and independent implementation of Lambda Chain and Lambda DB

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

Investment focus

Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

Cygames engages in animation creation services and mobile game applications development.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, FinTech
Corporate Round, Seed, Series D
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.

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