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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yusuke Sato
Angel
6 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
6 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Software $2.8M–$16M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content $968k–$326M
Paul Kuo
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Travel, SaaS $43M–$43M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Content, Information Technology, Travel $700k–$75M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
3 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$28M
Hideto Fujino
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Reservations, Real Estate $3.5M–$43M
Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Travel, Reservations $8.5M–$45M
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.7M–$4.3M
Ken Takayama
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Apps $6.2M–$43M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Software $497k–$41M
Michimasa Naka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Employment $26M–$43M
Masao Ito
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $1.4M–$18M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $2.8M–$28M
Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Travel, Reservations, SNS
Daisaku Harada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Hikaru Kashida
Angel
2 Japan Seed Consulting, E-Learning, Communities $1.7M–$9.7M
Kenji Kasahara
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Aerospace, Education $329k–$64M
Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Blockchain, Art $1.7M–$18M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $4.3M–$30M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$41M
Ogawa Ryo
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Social, Finance
Yoshihiro Yamauchi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Marketing $2.5M–$1B
Mitsunobu Okada
Angel
1 Japan Series A, Series B Farming, Wellness, Lifestyle
Nishida Kono Orie
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Women's, Career Planning
Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel SNS, Content, Finance $3.4M–$9.7M
Katsuhiro Tamukai
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Kosuke Minowa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Internet, Communities, Information Technology $709k–$14M
Takuma Iwai
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Kikuchi Ryo
Angel
1 Japan Series A Pet, Apps, Events
Yasuhide obita
Angel
1 Japan Seed Lifestyle, Service Industry
Shintaro Tabata
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
Yoichi Aso
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
Shunsuke Masaki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Content, Fashion
Ken Soga
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series D Content, Service Industry, SNS
Kyung wook Han
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Suzuki Yuto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
Tetsuya Nagashima
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Maiko Kojima
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Shoji Okamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed Lifestyle, Life Science, Service Industry
Makoto Osugi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wedding, Software
Yokihiko Enomoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed Lifestyle, Service Industry
Kazuhide Hashida
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Ogiwara Kunihiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Finance, Wedding
Kobayashi Toshihito
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Art, Baby, Real Estate
Takuya Imaizumi
Angel
1 India, Japan Seed, Corporate Round Gaming, eSports, Internet
Mitsushige Ito
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, Media and Entertainment, Pet
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$326M; Angel $2.8M–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Paul Kuo
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$48M; Series A $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Hideto Fujino
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Reservations, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$43M; Series A $8M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
  • Amateras Space
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Travel, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $8.5M–$45M; Series A $14M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M; Angel $6.2M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Michimasa Naka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Michimasa Naka is a member of the Board Of Directors of istyle.inc. He is an experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $26M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $15M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Reservations, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Daisaku Harada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Tourism, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$28M; Series A $7.7M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
  • 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.
  • Life is Tech — Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skillsand creativity
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Ogawa Ryo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Ogawa Ryo - CEO @ Timee

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Social, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LivCo — LivCo is a support service company that offers HR, life support, real estate rental brokerage, and media platform solutions for foreigners.
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
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Yoshihiro Yamauchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yoshihiro Yamauchi is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$225M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
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Mitsunobu Okada
Angel · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Mitsunobu Okada is the founder and CEO of Astroscale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Farming, Wellness, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
  • Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
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Nishida Kono Orie
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Nishida (Kono) Orie is an executive officer at Ghibli Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Women's, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CORE — CORE is a business matching app that allows women to meet and connect with each other and solve career-related problems.
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
  • MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
  • Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $7.6M–$9.7M; Angel $3.4M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Katsuhiro Tamukai
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
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Kosuke Minowa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kosuke Minowa - Director @ EXODUS Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Communities, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asobica — Play is enthusiasm.At one time, card games and Pokemon, which were addicted to childhood, were just enthusiasm for us.It's fun and exciting to forget the time when you're crazy.Let's make a sigh that can be such an enthusiasm. Create a product that produces enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to the world."Asobica Innovation to theworld"Asobica is a company that evolves boring things and old industries using technology and the power of the Internet (Asobica).
  • Token House
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Takuma Iwai
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
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Kikuchi Ryo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kikuchi Ryo is the Director and Head of Planning and Sales at Anicom Parfait.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Apps, Events
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
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Yasuhide obita
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yasuhide Tobita is the Owner of Nogizaka Shin .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
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Shintaro Tabata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
  • Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.
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Yoichi Aso
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamado — Kamado is a publisher of magazines. They offer products that include artist articles, colomn article series, and web magazines.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
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Shunsuke Masaki
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Mr. Masaki joined Mitsui Ventures in May 2008 as Venture Partner, and since has been focused on investments in retail and service sector. Previously, he worked at Fujita Corporation, a large operator of restaurants and retail chain, where he was responsible for store development and merchandising in Tokyo area. After several successfulyears at Fujita, he took a position with Service Business Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., in charge of developing new business utilizing the franchise method.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Service Industry, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
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Kyung wook Han
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Suzuki Yuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Tetsuya Nagashima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Tetsuya Nagashima - Director COO @ Gunosy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Maiko Kojima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
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Shoji Okamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Shoji Okamoto is the President of Mirai Works.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Life Science, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
  • Memory Lab — Memory Lab is a research laboratory that offers AI paper analysis and development solutions.
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Makoto Osugi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Mr. Makoto Osugi (lawyer)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Yokihiko Enomoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yorihiko Enomoto is a Co-Founder and COO at 3Sunny.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
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Kazuhide Hashida
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Born in Tokyo in 1983. After graduating from Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Engineering, worked at NTT DATA Corporation. He retired after a year and a half and started working as an engineer with almost no experience at Ururu Co., Ltd. After working for 4 years and 3 months, he founded Peraichi Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Treasure in Stomach — Treasure in Stomach is a food manufacturing company that develops vegan, gluten-free, and Muslim-friendly products and content.
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Ogiwara Kunihiro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Ogiwara Kunihiro

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Finance, Wedding
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Napcial — Napcial is an innovative AI-powered legal application designed to help couples update and personalize their wedding vows in a way that reflects their evolving relationship, values, and legal commitments.
  • Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
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Kobayashi Toshihito
Angel · Kameyama, Mie, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Born in 1977, his family was originally a rice farmer in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture. He was involved in the development of online games at Community Engine Co., Ltd., from the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. After he became a director of the Company in 2003, he moved to Beijing to establish a subsidiary and became CEO. Hereturned to Japan in February 2007. He served as Technical Director of ONE-UP Co., Ltd. in May 2010, and moved to Aiming in June 2011. He was appointed Chief Technology Officer in May 2013 and listed on TSE Mothers in April 2015. In September 2017, he founded ukka Co., Ltd. and assumed the position of President.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Baby, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
  • sketchbook — Baby’s Fun is a baby food kit and infant food kit manufacturing company. The company's food kit offers pre-cut ingredients, enabling customers to reduce food waste.
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Takuya Imaizumi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Takuya Imaizumi - Co-Founder & CEO,President @ GameWith

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: India, Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Asobica — Play is enthusiasm.At one time, card games and Pokemon, which were addicted to childhood, were just enthusiasm for us.It's fun and exciting to forget the time when you're crazy.Let's make a sigh that can be such an enthusiasm. Create a product that produces enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to the world."Asobica Innovation to theworld"Asobica is a company that evolves boring things and old industries using technology and the power of the Internet (Asobica).
  • GamingMonk — GamingMonk is one of the leading gaming companies in India which organizes esports tournaments for the gamers.
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Mitsushige Ito
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Mitsushige Ito - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) @ Mirrativ

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Pet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Elvez — Elves Ups is a collaborative AI dialogue system development tool.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • SYRUP Japan — Syrup develops Pet Tech platforms. The company's services include OMUSUBI, an adoption service that matches dogs and cats with pet owners, and Petokoto, a media platform that provides reliable information from veterinarians
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