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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Community startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025

Investor Community Japan investments
Hirofumi Miki 6
Yusuke Sato 6
Kiyohiro Sugashita 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Paul Kuo 3
Shuuichi Wada 3
Ken Takayama 3
Ayataro Nakagawa 3
Hideto Fujino 3
Jun Nishikawa 3
Kensuke Furukawa 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Kazuma Ieiri 2
Michimasa Naka 2
Daisaku Harada 2
Ryosuke Matsumoto 2
Sotaro Karasawa 2
Hikaru Kashida 2
Masao Ito 2
Yukihiro Yoshida 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
Takashi Okutani 1
Masanori Sugiyama 1
Arai Motoki 1
Fumiaki Koizumi 1
Kyung wook Han 1
Suzuki Yuto 1
Tetsuya Nagashima 1
Toyokazu Ichise 1
Yoshihiro Yamauchi 1
Kento Hayashi 1
Kikuchi Ryo 1
Daisuke Takanashi 1
Naoki Aoyagi 1
Tetsuro Kouda 1
Yoichi Aso 1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 1
Takuma Iwai 1
Yasuyuki Kin 1
Maiko Kojima 1
Hajime Hotta 1
Shoji Okamoto 1
Daisuke Kajiwara 1
Shuichi Takenaga 1
Takato Hiroshi 1
Katsuhiro Tamukai 1
Yusuke Mitsumoto 1
Makoto Osugi 1
Yokihiko Enomoto 1
Kazuhide Hashida 1
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Hirofumi Miki Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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
  • Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Yusuke Sato Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
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.
Kiyohiro Sugashita Angel
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
  • Marketing, Travel, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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.
Paul Kuo Angel
Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Travel, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Shuuichi Wada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Ken Takayama Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
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
  • Internet, Software, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
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.
Hideto Fujino Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • 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.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Jun Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, United States
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.
Kensuke Furukawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Drones, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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.
Kazuma Ieiri Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Content, Fashion, Recruiting
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Michimasa Naka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Reservations, Travel, Employment
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan
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.
Daisaku Harada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Tourism, Automotive
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
Ryosuke Matsumoto Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Reservations, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Sotaro Karasawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Hikaru Kashida Angel
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Masao Ito Angel
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan
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.
Yukihiro Yoshida Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Reservations, SNS
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan
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.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Takashi Okutani Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Okutani Graduated from University of Washington( Seattle WA) 1997 Enter Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. 1997-2000 working at MUJI store in Tokyo Japan 2000-2002 be seconded to trading company called Sanyei Detschland GmbH(cooperated trading company) 2003-2007 working at household division & joined to establish MUJI in-house design office,mainly taking care of the project called World MUJI 2007-2010 working at Apparel Divison. Produced MUJI’s Iconic item called 90 Degree Sock. 2010-2015 General Manager of WEB Business Divison. Produce MUJI passport 2015-Join Oisix as Chief Omni-Channel officer.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Masanori Sugiyama Angel
He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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 .
  • STUDIO — Studio is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Arai Motoki Angel · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Fumiaki Koizumi Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Osiro — Osiro is a community management firm.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Kyung wook Han Angel
Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Suzuki Yuto Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Suzuki Yuto
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Social, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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 Angel
Tetsuya Nagashima - Director COO @ Gunosy
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Investment focus
  • Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
Toyokazu Ichise Angel
Toyokazu Ichise is a Director of Peace Communication Foundation.
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Investment focus
  • Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
Yoshihiro Yamauchi Angel
Yoshihiro Yamauchi is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
Kento Hayashi Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kento Hayashi - President & CEO @ Datasection
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Investment focus
  • Social, Big Data, Analytics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Fabeee — "Fabeee" meant to support customers with the challenge of new manufacturing and with all efforts. The line between offline and online is no longer there, and manufacturing is about to change. We will fundamentally change the definition of manufacturing and support customers from various angles.
  • 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.
Kikuchi Ryo Angel
Kikuchi Ryo is the Director and Head of Planning and Sales at Anicom Parfait.
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Apps, Events
  • Series A
  • Japan
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.
Daisuke Takanashi Angel
Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Content, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Naoki Aoyagi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
Tetsuro Kouda Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tetsuro Kouda was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture in 1985.After graduating from Sasebo National College of Technology, Kouda was admitted to the University of Tsukuba for systems engineering.After graduation, Kouda was hired by Accenture to work in management consultation. Kouda worked with electrical manufacturing in major companies,high-tech business strategy, marketing, and IT consultation. Upon retirement, Kouda and Shiota co-founded Akatsuki.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • UGOKU — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • Whomor — Whomor is a Tokyo-based company that delivers illustrations for social games.
  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
Yoichi Aso Angel
Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
Takuma Iwai Angel
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Yasuyuki Kin Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yasuyuki Kin
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Maiko Kojima Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Hajime Hotta Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hajime is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor with a strong academic background in artificial intelligence (AI) and AI web applications. Received Ph.D with a study of neural networks.Hajime started coding when he was 12 years old and implemented his first AI code at 14 years old, which automatically correct simple grammaticalmistakes. He was the inventor and product lead of AI-backed Ad Tech at Cirius Tech, which was acquired by Yahoo Japan, and also a CTO at NakedTech, which was sold to Mixi Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Q&A, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • Japan, Thailand, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Nishika — Nishika provides a data science competition, Q&A and recruitment platform.
  • Beeketing — ShopBase is the best eCommerce platform specialized for modern businesses with easy setup, no risk, free for 14 days. Dropshipping, Print-on-Demand, Online Brand, Content Creator.
  • Deepscope — ALWAYS INVEST IN THE BEST COMPANIES - Your AI powered stock research and portfolio management platform
Shoji Okamoto Angel
Shoji Okamoto is the President of Mirai Works.
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Investment focus
  • Lifestyle, Life Science, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Daisuke Kajiwara Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan
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Investment focus
  • Social Media, Content, CRM
  • Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
Shuichi Takenaga Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
  • H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
Takato Hiroshi Angel
Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Legal, Beauty
  • Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan
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.
Katsuhiro Tamukai Angel
Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Yusuke Mitsumoto Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Consulting, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series C
  • Japan, United States
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.
Makoto Osugi Angel
Mr. Makoto Osugi (lawyer)
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Software
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
Yokihiko Enomoto Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yorihiko Enomoto is a Co-Founder and COO at 3Sunny.
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Investment focus
  • Lifestyle, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Kazuhide Hashida Angel
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
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
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