Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan (July 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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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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Paul Kuo
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Travel, SaaS | $43M–$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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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 | $567k–$41M |
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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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Michimasa Naka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Reservations, Travel, Employment | $26M–$43M |
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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–$8.5M |
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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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Hikaru Kashida
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, E-Learning, Communities | $1.7M–$9.7M |
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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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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 | $482k–$30M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $661k–$18M |
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Daisaku Harada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Finance, Tourism, Automotive | |
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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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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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Ogiwara Kunihiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Finance, Wedding | |
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Kobayashi Toshihito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Art, Baby, Real Estate | |
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Takuya Imaizumi
Angel
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1 | India, Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Gaming, eSports, Internet | |
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Mitsushige Ito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Content, Media and Entertainment, Pet | |
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Seiya Koide
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design | |
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Takashi Okutani
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Arai Motoki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment | |
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing | |
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Takanori Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Pet, Content, Recruiting | |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Finance, Internet, Content | |
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Toyokazu Ichise
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability | |
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Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Social Media, Content, CRM | |
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Shinji Senba
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability | |
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William Lohse
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Social Media, Advertising | |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Education, Recruiting | |
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Keito Noguchi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $2.5M–$68M |
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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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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.
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: 69
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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.
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.
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.
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 $567k–$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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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–$8.5M; Series A $3.1M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
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.
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.
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 —
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 $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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 $661k–$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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- 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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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: 12
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$48M; Series C $33M–$326M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Takuya Imaizumi - Co-Founder & CEO,President @ GameWith
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- 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.
Mitsushige Ito - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) @ Mirrativ
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- 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
After experiencing CG designer, freelance, image director etc, joined KLab Corporation as an art director in May 2012. Business promotion and management skills are appreciated, and he joined the creative department manager in 1 year of joining the company and as the youngest executive officer in April 2014. In March 2015 he served concurrently asmarketing director and organized management of several divisions, he was active in a wide range of scenes. We are also focusing on developing creative events for new graduates and planning creative events for regular graduates and giving lectures for students. FiNC led the overall branding and service design while operating the organization as CCO Creative Director.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Management Consulting, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Mr. Sato joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd in 2006. He began his career at its Petroleum Business Division and was engaged in operation and marketing for Australian and New Zealand crude oil for 3years. After that, he spent 2years in China under Mitsui’s program to study Chinese in Shanghai and for a job assignment in Tianjin. He joined MGI in April2012.
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- Industry: Pet, Content, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Toyokazu Ichise is a Director of Peace Communication Foundation.
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- 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.
Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan
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- Industry: Social Media, Content, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Shinji Senba is a Director of Green Innovations Holdings.
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- 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.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
- SmartNews — SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinatingengineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.
- Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Keito Noguchi is a Brave group Representative Director, and Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- 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.
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–$68M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- 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.
- Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.
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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
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).
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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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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