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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yusuke Sato
Angel
6 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Software $320k–$43M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
5 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Marketing $764k–$16M
Ken Takayama
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Apps $6.2M–$43M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Internet $690k–$33M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources $968k–$71M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
3 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$26M
Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Travel, Reservations $8.5M–$45M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Internet, Apps $700k–$213M
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.7M–$4.3M
Hideto Fujino
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Reservations, Real Estate $233k–$43M
Paul Kuo
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Travel, SaaS $43M–$43M
Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Adult $229k–$9.7M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $2.8M–$28M
Yuki Ota
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Sales, Events $940k–$1.6M
Michimasa Naka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Task Management, CRM $1.8M–$43M
Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Blockchain, Art $948k–$14M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $455k–$30M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$47M
Hikaru Kashida
Angel
2 Japan Seed Consulting, E-Learning, Communities $411k–$9.7M
Daisaku Harada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Kenji Kasahara
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Aerospace, Education $329k–$7.7M
Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Travel, Reservations, SNS
Masao Ito
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $661k–$17M
Yokihiko Enomoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed Lifestyle, Service Industry
Kazuhide Hashida
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series C Internet, Consulting, Financial Services $3.3M–$33M
Takahiro Mitsuura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B B2C, Pet, Content
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Events, Apparel $453k–$28M
Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Consulting, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing $482k–$7.5M
Ogiwara Kunihiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Finance, Wedding
Kobayashi Toshihito
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Art, Baby, Real Estate
Mitsushige Ito
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, Media and Entertainment, Pet
Seiya Koide
Angel
1 Japan Seed E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
Takashi Okutani
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Arai Motoki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
Takanori Sato
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Pet, Content, Recruiting
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel Finance, Internet, Content
Toyokazu Ichise
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B Social Media, Content, CRM
Shinji Senba
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
William Lohse
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising
Takuya Noguchi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet $286k–$2.6M
Takuya Imaizumi
Angel
1 India, Japan Seed, Corporate Round Gaming, eSports, Internet
Kosuke Minowa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Internet, Communities, Information Technology $709k–$14M
Yoshida Yukihiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed Hospitality, Reservations, Media and Entertainment
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Web Design $6M–$18M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
1 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$43M
Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting $926k–$62M
Yuichi Tanaka
Angel
1 Japan Seed E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
Hajime Hotta
Angel
1 Japan, Thailand, Singapore Seed Q&A, FinTech, Finance $14k–$12M
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$41M; Angel $320k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shiftus — Shiftus is a communication application that can be used in various part-time job sites such as cafes, izakayas, hotels, supermarkets
  • 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
  • Giver Take All — Gibber Take All is a Planning, development and management of business sharing platform
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $690k–$33M; 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.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$70M; 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 Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$24M; 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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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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 Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$43M; Series A $8M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
  • Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
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Paul Kuo
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.7M; Angel $229k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • 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.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Yuki Ota
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Yuki Ota

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Sales, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $940k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Retreat — Corporate Retreat Planning | Retreat helps to plan execute custom Corporate Retreats that inspire employees, in unique locations around the globe.
  • Pictoria — Pictoria produce total events for entertainment.They handle a wide range of events, from talk events to events using advanced technologies such as 3D motion capture.
  • HALF TIME — HALF TIME provides branding and marketing as well as recruitment services to corporate clients. They provide valuable services with new ideas for such industries and social issues.
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Michimasa Naka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Task Management, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $948k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, 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.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $411k–$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 offers a career programme. The users can understand their strengths and make use of them. The company identifies organizational issues for clients to investigate further, as well as issues based on hidden real intentions. The services help users consult with a professional career counsellor online and offer a text programme that isconducted by email, enabling clients to solve career development problems.
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Daisaku Harada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$2.5M; Series A $3.1M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicetep — Voicetep is a unique dating app that enables users to begin meaningful connections without needing to share photos or exchange messages, instead fostering relationships through voice-based interactions that emphasize personality, authenticity, and genuine communication from the very first encounter.
  • AVIATE — AVIATE Inc. is a Tokyo-based technology startup that designs and builds AI-driven business automation systems. The company develops TASKBASE, an operational workflow layer that allows enterprise teams to run backend business operations entirely from natural language prompts.
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
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Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to make people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play with 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 bringsprofits to companies by improving lifetime value sales through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$17M; 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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Yokihiko Enomoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$7.1M; Series C $20M–$33M
  • 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 Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Takahiro Mitsuura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Takahiro Mitsuura - Director @ GO

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Pet, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a pet wellness company that creates and sells fresh food, runs pet media, and keeps pets happy. It is suitable to become an information source that combines accuracy, completeness, and updateability by utilizing the collective knowledge of experts both inside and outside the company and demonstrating their respective expertise. Thecompany aims to develop a world where pets can be loved as family members.
  • SYRUP Japan — Syrup develops Pet Tech platforms. The company's services include OMUSUBI, an adoption service that matches dogs and cats with pet owners, and Petokoto, a media platform that provides reliable information from veterinarians
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Events, Apparel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $453k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kunihiro Tanaka is a President/CEO of Sakura Internet Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$1.1M; Series B $1.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Acompany — Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing.
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Ogiwara Kunihiro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Ogiwara Kunihiro

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mitsushige Ito - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) @ Mirrativ

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Elvez — Elves Ups is a collaborative AI dialogue system development tool.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • SYRUP Japan — Syrup develops Pet Tech platforms. The company's services include OMUSUBI, an adoption service that matches dogs and cats with pet owners, and Petokoto, a media platform that provides reliable information from veterinarians
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Seiya Koide
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Takashi Okutani
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

  • 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.
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Takanori Sato
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Toyokazu Ichise
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Toyokazu Ichise is a Director of Peace Communication Foundation.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shinji Senba
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Shinji Senba is a Director of Green Innovations Holdings.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Takuya Noguchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Takuya Noguchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $286k–$2.6M
  • 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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Takuya Imaizumi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Asobica — Play is enthusiasm.At one time, card games and Pokemon, which were addicted to childhood, were just enthusiasm for us.It's fun and exciting to forget the time when you're crazy.Let's make a sigh that can be such an enthusiasm. Create a product that produces enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to the world."Asobica Innovation to theworld"Asobica is a company that evolves boring things and old industries using technology and the power of the Internet (Asobica).
  • GamingMonk — GamesHub compares the best real money online casinos in India. Check out our expert reviews of safe, licensed gambling sites for Indian players.
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Kosuke Minowa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Kosuke Minowa - Director @ EXODUS Japan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Asobica — Play is enthusiasm.At one time, card games and Pokemon, which were addicted to childhood, were just enthusiasm for us.It's fun and exciting to forget the time when you're crazy.Let's make a sigh that can be such an enthusiasm. Create a product that produces enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to the world."Asobica Innovation to theworld"Asobica is a company that evolves boring things and old industries using technology and the power of the Internet (Asobica).
  • Token House — Token House is an application that creates warm living places around the world. They plan to develop a shared house with unique points around the world. It also creates a mechanism that can secure the food, clothing, and shelter needed to live only with tokens distributed by community participation and tokens bought from members.
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Yoshida Yukihiro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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 .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$43M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $926k–$62M; Angel $14M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Yuichi Tanaka
Angel · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

Yuichi Tanaka - CDO @ Visional

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Hajime Hotta
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 1 investments in Japan Community startups

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

  • Industry: Q&A, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Community Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 84 deals from 158 investors.

158
investors
in Japan Community startups
84
deals
in Japan Community startups
$4.3M
median round
in Japan Community startups
4%
lead investors
lead at least one round
56%
Seed
most common funding stage

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