Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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6 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $2.8M–$16M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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6 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Hideto Fujino
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, Reservations, Real Estate | $2.6M–$43M |
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Content, Social Media | $1.7M–$4.3M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Information Technology, Travel | $700k–$75M |
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Ken Takayama
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Reservations, Travel, Apps | $6.2M–$43M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, SNS, Software | $497k–$41M |
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Paul Kuo
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Travel, SaaS | $43M–$43M |
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content | $968k–$326M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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3 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$28M |
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Marketing, Travel, Reservations | $8.5M–$45M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$47M |
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Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Travel, Reservations, SNS | |
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Art, Software, Reservations | $2.8M–$28M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, E-Learning, Communities | $1.7M–$9.7M |
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Michimasa Naka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Reservations, Travel, Employment | $26M–$43M |
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, Art | $1.7M–$18M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $1.4M–$18M |
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Daisaku Harada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Finance, Tourism, Automotive | |
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Aerospace, Education | $329k–$64M |
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor | |
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Katsuhiro Tamukai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Takuma Iwai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Kikuchi Ryo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Pet, Apps, Events | |
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Yasuhide obita
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Lifestyle, Service Industry | |
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Shintaro Tabata
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sharing Economy, Audio, Content | |
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Yoichi Aso
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media | |
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Shunsuke Masaki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability | |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | |
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Ken Soga
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series D | Content, Service Industry, SNS | |
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Kyung wook Han
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Social, Content | |
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Tetsuya Nagashima
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability | |
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Maiko Kojima
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Shoji Okamoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Lifestyle, Life Science, Service Industry | |
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Makoto Osugi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wedding, Software | |
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Yokihiko Enomoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Lifestyle, Service Industry | |
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Kazuhide Hashida
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $2.5M–$1B |
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Content, Finance | $3.4M–$9.7M |
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Kosuke Minowa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Internet, Communities, Information Technology | $709k–$14M |
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Shunsuke Ikegami
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Social, Cooking, Big Data | |
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series C | Internet, Consulting, Financial Services | $7.1M–$326M |
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Takuya Noguchi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet | $2.6M–$4.3M |
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content | $4.4M–$41M |
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Kensuke Naito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Pet, Apps, Insurance | |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Software | $1.3M–$74M |
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Yoshida Yukihiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Hospitality, Reservations, Media and Entertainment | |
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Takato Hiroshi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Health Care, Legal, Beauty | |
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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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- 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.
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- 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.
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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- Industry: Travel, Reservations, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$43M; Series A $8M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
- 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.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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- 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- 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.
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco
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- 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.
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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- 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.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
- 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.
Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.
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- 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.
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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- 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.
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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- 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 .
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Art
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elaly — Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
- 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.
- OPERA TECH —
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- 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.
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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
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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- 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
Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.
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- 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.
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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- 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.
Kikuchi Ryo is the Director and Head of Planning and Sales at Anicom Parfait.
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- 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.
Yasuhide Tobita is the Owner of Nogizaka Shin .
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- Industry: Lifestyle, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- 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.
Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line
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- 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.
Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Ken Soga is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Content, Service Industry, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Series D
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.
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- Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Suzuki Yuto
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- 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.
Tetsuya Nagashima - Director COO @ Gunosy
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- Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.
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- Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Shoji Okamoto is the President of Mirai Works.
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- 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.
Mr. Makoto Osugi (lawyer)
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- 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.
Yorihiko Enomoto is a Co-Founder and COO at 3Sunny.
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- Industry: Lifestyle, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- 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.
Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$225M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
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- 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.
Kosuke Minowa - Director @ EXODUS Japan
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- 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
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- 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).
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Shunsuke Ikegami is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Social, Cooking, Big Data
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
- Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.
Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.
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- Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$48M; Series C $33M–$326M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UPWARDS — UPWARDS develop and operate the “cloud loan” loan platform for individuals.
- CrowdLoan — CrowdLoan is a platform that connects financial institutions and individuals with smooth loans.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Takuya Noguchi
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- Industry: Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tricot — Tricot is a food and beverage company.
- FLATBOYS — FLATBOYS specializes in planning, development and operation of internet business.
- Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $4.4M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
- NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
- Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
Kensuke Naito - CIO (Chief Information Officer) @ SmartHR
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- Industry: Pet, Apps, Insurance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
Former executive director of Gulliver International (currently IDOM), one of the few hyper-growth companies in Japan that made public public public in four years and achieved 10 billion sales in 10 years. He held a role in charge of FC business, management strategy, marketing, human resources, education, IT and finance.
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- Industry: Hospitality, Reservations, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum
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- Industry: Health Care, Legal, Beauty
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JAPAN HEALTHCARE — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
- Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
- Legal Technology Japan — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.
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