Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Japan in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Construction startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Construction companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Japan in October 2024
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
- Information Technology, Software, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
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- Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
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
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
- Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
- Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- Visban — Visban is a technology company that specializes in utilizing mmWave signals for connectivity both indoors and outdoors. Their primary focus is on providing reliable and fast network solutions that eliminate dead spots and offer uninterrupted connections. By utilizing mmWave signals, Visban can achieve this with fewer base stations, leading to moreenergy-efficient operations and extended battery life for mobile devices on their network.
- Trans-N — Trans-N aims to introduce advanced AI technologies, accelerating digital transformation and promoting its AI transformation. Trans-N offers management consulting, AI system development, and sales of AI-related products, including meeting minutes and contract analysis tools, serving major trading companies.
- Libero Thera — LiberoThera provides drug discovery research and development services. It focuses on making drugs with GPCRs for membrane proteins. LiberoThera was founded in 2018 and is located in Tokyo.
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
- Software, Service Industry, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Trans-N — Trans-N aims to introduce advanced AI technologies, accelerating digital transformation and promoting its AI transformation. Trans-N offers management consulting, AI system development, and sales of AI-related products, including meeting minutes and contract analysis tools, serving major trading companies.
- PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
- Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
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
- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
- Livetoon — Livetoon creates intellectual property characters to access various content artificial intelligence.
- Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan, Italy
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- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Makigumi — Makigumi provides buildings design, management, construction, and real estate consulting services.
- Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, Nigeria, United States
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- MTU — MTU offers medical security cloud services to medical organizations and delivers IT support, including the recent cyber harm to medical institutions, both online and offline.
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
The PERSOL (Person) group consists of a wide range of companies in over 90 domestic and overseas companies, including staffing, recruitment, recruitment advertisement, IT outsourcing and design development. In order to realize the vision of the group "To the growth and creation infrastructure of people and organizations", they are workingcomprehensively to solve the problems of labor and employment. "PERSOL (Personal)" is a new brand that was born in July 2016. The origin of the brand name is "People grow up through work (PERSON) and solve social issues (SOLUTION)." They support the growth of working people and have a desire to aim for a shining future.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Recruiting, SNS
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
- VISITS Technologies — VISITS Technologies is an internet based company.VISITS Technologies developed a unique consensus building algorithm called ideagram (patented),and succeeded for the first time in the world to quantify people's creativity , discerning ability, and the value of the idea itself By utilizing this technology, not only creativity, but alsoquantifying difficult- to- quantify sensual assets, such as senses,skills, and personal connections , Combined with blockchain technology, value transfer becomes possible.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
- Nstock — Nstock is specialized in developing SAAS based applications for ecosystem.
- Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, China, United States
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- At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- RECOTECH — RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.
Will Group is a branding company
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Singapore
GA Investments is an investment company that mainly invests in real estate.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals
- Seed
- Japan
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- Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
UB Ventures is venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
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- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
- WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ekei labs — build your longevity strategy with ekei labs
- EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
- MORPHEUS — Development of Nose To Brain Drug Delivery System (DDS)
Legend Partners mainly engages in venture investment development and business creation development. It focuses on the field of real estate, state-of-the-art technology, and medical.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Automotive, Enterprise
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- MANTRA — MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology.
Mitsui & Co is a general trading company. Mitsui & Co's business area covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more.They will contribute to address diverse industrial needs, through procurement, supply and sales of iron and steel products and investment to processing and distribution businesses inJapan and abroad.Through business development, investment and trading of mineral, metal resources and metals, they reinforce a stable supply of the resources and materials necessary for both industry and society. They are also active in metal recycling and other initiatives to develop industrial solutions to environmental issues.They contribute to creating better lives through the long-term, reliable supply of social infrastructure such as electricity, gas, water,railways and other logistics infrastructure. They provide sales, financing, lease, transportation and logistics, and project investment in a wide range of machineries, including large-scale plants, marine resource development facilities,ships, and aerospace, motor vehicles, construction/mining machinery and industrial machinery.Their chemicals business encompasses trade and investment in a range of industries, from upstream chemicals such as basic chemicals, fertilizer resources, through to downstream chemicals such as functional materials, electronics materials,fertilizers,aguricultural chemicals and specialty chemicals. They are also pursuing new initiatives such as green chemicals.Through upstream development, logistics and trading of energy resources such as oil, natural gas/LNG ,coal and uranium, they contribute to the stable supply of energy vital to both industry and society. As part of efforts to achieve a low-carbon society, they are also actively involved in next-generation energy and environemental businesses.Adapting to changes in consumption and lifestyles while meeting consumers’ diverse needs, they provide value-added products and services, develop businesses and make investments in the fields of food resources, food products, retail support business, medical and healthcare, fashion, forestry plantation resources, real estate-related business.Through their ICT, Finance and Logistics business, they work on a diverse range of projects aimed at developing innovative business and expanding their business field. At the same time, they aim to strengthen their company-wide earnings base by pursuing strategic projects and new opportunities and providing specialized functions that contribute to the whole Mitsui & Co. group.Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subisidiaries of offices located in the Americas area. Trading in various commodites led by overseas trading subsidiaries or offices located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa area. Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subsidiaries of offices located in the Asia Pacific area.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- LinkAja — Kini Pembayaran, Pinjaman, & Investasi Online dalam satu genggaman. Cukup scan QR / kode tiket untuk pembayaran offline di seluruh merchant.
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Redpoint Cybersecurity — Redpoint Cyber is a human-led, technology-enabled cybersecurity firm providing Digital Forensics, Incident Response services, and cloud security consulting, specializing in proactive services like managed cybersecurity, threat hunting, ethical hacking/penetration testing, and compromise assessments designed to mitigate cybersecurity threats.
a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Fitness
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Queri — Queri is a software company that provides messaging services through custom-made videos, photos, and voice notes via the platform.
- zeteoh — Located in Tokyo, Zeteoh is dedicated to simplifying operational efficiency for frontline workers around the globe. Our main innovation is a user-friendly no-code platform using LLMs designed as a comprehensive hub to streamline complex operational tasks. Integrated within this platform is TRAILS, our specialized indoor tracking solution, servingas a vital component in enhancing overall workflow optimization. This integration empowers businesses in sectors like logistics and construction to leverage advanced location tracking as part of their efficiency strategies. Our focus is on making sophisticated optimization tools accessible and manageable, enabling companies to concentrate on their core activities while we facilitate the complexities of data integration and workflow improvement. Zeteoh stands for bringing advanced technological solutions into everyday business practices, making them as intuitive and straightforward as everyday apps.
- Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, India
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- Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
- OTO Capital — India's most trusted place to buy bikes, scooters and electric scooters of all brands on loan and in cash. Digital Process. Lowest EMIs. Fast Deliveries - OTO
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
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
- Art, Baby, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
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
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, India, Indonesia
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- 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!
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, India, Hong Kong
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- Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
- Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
- Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
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- Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- 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.
- 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Drones, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Myanmar
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Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems
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Investment focus
- Apps, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Address Japan — 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.
THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (the Bank) is a Japan-based regional bank. The Bank is mainly engaged in the banking, leasing and financial instruments exchange businesses. The Bank is also engaged in worker dispatching, real estate appraisement and research, integrated processing of foreign exchange transmission and expense collection, leasing, operationconsulting, computer-related, entrusted accounting, credit guarantee, credit card, Initial Public Offerings (IPO) support services, small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) revival support and security-related businesses.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Content, Task Management
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Japan
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- M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
- COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
- SORABITO — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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Investment focus
- Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Golden Egg Ventures is a venture capital firm affiliated with Egg Forward, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Consulting, Recruiting
- Seed
- Japan
Nippon Broadcasting System is a broadcasting and media production company.
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Investment focus
- Audio, Medical Device, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Otobank — OTOBANK provides voice content and audiobook platforms and publishing production company.
- SHOWROOM — SHOWROOM provides live performance broadcasts by idols and celebrities in virtual stadiums.
- HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE — HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE is a biotechnology company.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Belgium
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- KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
- Yoii Fuel — Yoii Fuel is a software company which analyzes a company's KPIs and enables them to obtain a means of financing based on this data.
- Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Japan Best Rescue System offers nationwide living emergency services. Its business partners are various real estate-related companies, major non-life insurance companies, various housing manufacturers, and major house makers.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Content, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed
- Japan
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- Jimoty — Jimothy is a free advertisement bulletin board for 9 million people a month! You can post information such as buying and selling second-hand goods, announcement of the event, recruitment information, recruitment of members, real estate information etc.
- Aki Katsu — Aki Katsu revitalizes housing market and produces businesses such as commercial facilities, dining facilities, and accommodation facilities. The company aims to be a comprehensive producer company for utilizing vacant houses.
- Koukandekirukun — Koukandekirukun specializes in mail order and construction of housing equipment.
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
- Finance, Software, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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- Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
- BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
- Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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Investment focus
- Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Germany
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- EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
- EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
- Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.
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- Human Resources, Food and Beverage, Online Portals
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- QibiTech — QibiTech created HATS, a service in which a human operator remotely supplements the operation of a robot. Add-on edge calculator or software for various robots to increase robot flexibility. It also serves as a platform for connecting operation data to the business improvement system.
- At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
- Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.
XIMERA provides product planning, development, and operation of internet services and applications.
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- Agriculture, Real Estate, Construction
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong
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- Agribuddy — Management of agricultural support application "AGRIBUDDY".
- SmartEstate — SmartEstate is a real estate company seeks to simplify this using machine learning to automate the rental transaction, taking people almost entirely out of the process.
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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- Art, Reservations, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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- 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Ikemori Venture Support is an early-stage startup funding firm.
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- B2B, Venture Capital, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United Arab Emirates
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- Camb.ai — Camb.ai is AI-driven video content localization platform built for content creators and media producers. Join 100s of video first companies who use Camb.ai to dub videos into 100+ languages. All while preserving the original speaker voices (AI voice cloning)
- Owners Co — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.
- YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.
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- Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
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- GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
- ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.
- LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.
JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, Thailand
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- Gaianixx — Gaianixx is a manufacturing company that conducts research and develops new technologies to advance the semiconductor sector.
- Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
- SUN METALON — Next Generation Sustainable Metal Manufacturing
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Japan
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- M2X — M2X is an application that promotes the digitization of equipment maintenance work on manufacturing facilities.
- Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
- Qingbo Exploration — Qingbo Exploration is a hydrogen boat power system technology provider, dedicated to applying clean energy—hydrogen energy—to the marine sector.
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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- Task Management, Apps, Education
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan
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- TRUNK Japan — TRUNK is a provider of Information service industry,advertising agency business and design business.
- Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
- obniz — Getting start your new Smart Ready project.
Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.
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- Apps, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan
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- UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
- SOEJU — SOEJU personal is a service that allows professional stylists.
- Josan shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
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- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- Yuimedi — Yuimedi acquires, investigate, analyze medical data and provides accurate solutions.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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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- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Takashi Nagao
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- SNS, Video, Brewing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.
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- Information Technology, Content, SNS
- Funding Round, Series A, Series D
- Japan
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- AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
- CureApp — CureApp is a digital health startup.The firm is one of the leading players in the medical app vertical under the theme of “app exhibits therapeutic effects against diseases” and launched a nicotine addiction treatment app in February 2015, which was jointly developed with Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University’s School of Medicine. It iscurrently conducting clinical trials in many locations.
- kokohore Japan — kokohore Japan offers advertising services intended to help companies sell their products. They provide custom-made promotion planning, provide the content to the media to plan and manage owned media, and assist in product development, providing businesses with the assistance they need to survive.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Finance, Internet, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore
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- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
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