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Top 50 Community VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
17 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
15 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$369M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
11 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $4.5M–$425M
ANRI
VC Fund
11 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $628k–$624M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$369M
Venture United
VC Fund
9 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $788k–$68M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $709k–$71M
JAFCO
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$298M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$553M
UNITED
VC Fund
7 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment $645k–$89M
W ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $1.6M–$413M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $362k–$113M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$64M
Vector
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $1.5M–$43M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$142M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $414k–$99M
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$928M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Taiwan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, Apps $229k–$928M
Mint
VC Fund
5 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Consulting $283k–$57M
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Content $1M–$600M
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.1M–$638M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$255M
MPower Partners
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series B, Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing $846k–$928M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $3.1M–$71M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$369M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$142M
F Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $48k–$57M
OPT Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Content $253k–$89M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting $383k–$14M
SOURCENEXT
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Reservations, Travel, Software $43M–$43M
AG Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $429k–$500M
One Capital
VC Fund
3 China, Japan, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive $292k–$255M
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Content $678k–$255M
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Malaysia Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $775k–$45M
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $100k–$57M
Nextblue
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Women's, Health Care $454k–$65M
STRIVE
VC Fund
3 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.1M–$198M
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series B, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $1.5M–$170M
Startup Factory
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Sustainability, Apps $325k–$2.7M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $730k–$57M
Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Medical
Innovation Engine
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care
JTB Corp.
VC Fund
2 Japan, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Travel, Leisure, Sales
ABC Dream Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Series A, Seed Information Technology, Social Media, Content
Kiraboshi Bank
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Debt Financing, Seed, Series B Education, Recruiting, Health Care
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 investments in Japan Community startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Community startups

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Community startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 513
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Community startups

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Seed $628k–$92M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
  • Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Community startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 538
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
  • ChromaCode — ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics. It leverages patented mathematical methods and algorithmic enhancements to enrich signal processing from life science instrumentation. The company uses this to extract new information on biochemistry reactions and substantially increase the performance capabilities of today’sgold-standard biochemical assays at a very low cost.ChromaCode was founded in 2012, ChromaCode is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Community startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Community startups

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $788k–$28M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Community startups

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Community startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $6.4M–$298M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
  • The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Community startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Community startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$47M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
  • Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
  • Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$28M; Series A $28M–$413M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content
  • Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • ECloud — E-Cloud is combines the experience and know-how cultivated in finance, IT and venture capital to provide information and opportunities related to venture investment, which has been limited until now, through the equity investment type cloud founding platform e-cloud. It provides to the general investor, and provides entrepreneurs with new means ofraising funds in addition to traditional banks and venture capital.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Community startups

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$47M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
  • Logo Labo — Logo Labo provides branding and marketing services, including brand development, formulation, IT-based branding and marketing support.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
  • Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$213M; Series A $18M–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $419M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
  • Meson — Meson Tokyo provides Games, Entertainment, AR, software, game basic technology, application development, VR & AR.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $840k–$92M; Series A $229k–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $283k–$28M; Series A $2.3M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LiftBase — LiftBase is revolutionizing the recruiting structure using AI and social data.
  • MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
  • Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$600M; Series B $1M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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.
  • LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
  • Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Community startups

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Series A $8.3M–$282M; Series B $7.1M–$638M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
  • Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 293
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$23M; Series A $5M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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MPower Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

MPower Partners empower bold, globally-minded entrepreneurs providing tech-enabled solutions to societal challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $846k–$6.5M; Series A $4.9M–$928M; Series B $6.5M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MamaWell
  • FastLabel — FastLabel's mission is to become an infrastructure that solves the problems and accelerate the practical application of AI.
  • Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Z-Works — "Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave.
  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$31M; Series A $1.9M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hokan — hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents.
  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Community startups

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups, 50 in the past 12 months

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $48k–$24M; Debt Financing $536k–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Onestruction — Onestruction is an IT firm that offers construction solution development, 3D model and document creation, and operational support services.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$68M; Series A $253k–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
  • Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $383k–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Yozboshi — Yozboshi is a software firm that develops accounting software along with legal compliance consulting services.
  • Colega AI — Create engaging social media content every day with AI. Colega AI is your AI social media manager that helps your business grow and reach new customers.
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SOURCENEXT
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

SOURCENEXT is principally engaged in the planning, development and sale of software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Owl Labs — Owl Labs is a collaborative tech company revolutionizing how the world communicates through inclusive and immersive video experiences. Built for modern organizations, we’re dedicated to empowering hybrid and remote teams with our award-winning collaborative technology and product suite.
  • 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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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $14M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CUSTA
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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One Capital
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

One Capital is a China-based private equity investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China, Japan, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$48M; Angel $292k–$1.4M; Series A $1.4M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • SmarterEye — SmarterEye is a technology company dedicated to the R&D and manufacture of autonomous driving systems and related products.
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $678k–$33M; Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $1.6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Metalogos — Metalogos operates a public stock information service. It provides individual investors with easy-to-understand and unambiguous information regarding public offerings.
  • Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
  • Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $5.1M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Flow Solutions — You have to know to grow. Flow’s AI-powered platform focuses retail executives, marketing and store teams on actionable steps to delightful customer experiences. Flow leverages IoT and existing retail data sources to standardize data communication across large retail chains while using AI to enable data-centric decision-making through all levels ofthe organization.
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TLM
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $11M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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Nextblue
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Nextblue is an early-stage focused VC based in Japan deploying in Japan, EU, and the US. NB fund II is investing in pre-seed, seed and pre-A startups in healthtech, femtech, or female-led startups innovating in the fields of fintech, consumer, and B2B SaaS. We also run our own co-working space in the heart of Tokyo called Nexthub (nexthub.jp) EUand US startups: Reach out to Vincent at Vincent@nextblue.com Japan: Kanako at Kanako@nextblue.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Women's, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $454k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • YStory — YStory is a digital health firm that uses AI and medical science to improve women's health during menopause.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
  • Sage Haven — Sage Haven develops an AI-moderated messaging and calling app designed for children in their early years online. The app issues children a dedicated Sage Haven number and routes messaging and voice calls through its platform while allowing contacts to use services like iMessage or Google Messages. Parents create and verify accounts, approve eachcontact, and supervise conversations from their own phones with alerts, recaps, and safety insights. The service uses automated content moderation to block harmful or inappropriate messages, links, images, and videos before they are sent and to guide children toward safer communication practices. It supports Wi-Fi and cellular use on iOS devices, with tools aimed at reducing exposure to online bullying, spam, and addictive usage patterns. Sage Haven operates as a public benefit corporation balancing commercial activity with a mission to improve children’s mental health and well-being.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$56M; Series B $1.8M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
  • FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
  • Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
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Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$23M; Series B $4.7M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
  • RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
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Startup Factory
VC Fund · Chiba, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Startup Factory is a startup fund that provides one-stop support to startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Sustainability, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecmile — Ecmile is a women's garment business that provides things with a focus on sophisticated design and production tales, under the premise of "a favorite piece you want to wear every year, even as an adult."
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • HA-LU — HA-LU is a Short Drama Label that aims to produce authentic "Youth 2.0 IP Contents" for the next generation.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $20M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Community startups

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
  • Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
  • Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
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Innovation Engine
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Asilla — Asilla develops and provides AI specialized in image and video analysis. Its services, the Vehicle recognition AI, recognizes the manufacturer and model from the image of the vehicle. It also has a censorship service that detects inappropriate images that can not be released, including copyrights and obscene expressionsAsilla was founded in 2015and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
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JTB Corp.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Denmark

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Goodwings — Choose responsible travel options, track emissions, and offset them for free with Goodwings. Our sustainability-focused travel management system helps you travel responsibly while reducing your carbon footprint.
  • byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
  • Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
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ABC Dream Ventures
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TYPICA — TYPICA is a marketplace where you can directly trade unique and high quality green coffee beans in units of one bag.
  • At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
  • Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
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Kiraboshi Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Community startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Recruiting, Health Care
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
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Community VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 497 deals from 551 investors.

551
investors
in Japan Community startups
497
deals
in Japan Community startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Community startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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