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Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Japan in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 May 2025

Investor	Construction Japan investments
Genesia Ventures	4
Incubate Fund	3
Fumiaki Koizumi	3
ANRI	3
UB Ventures	2
ANOBAKA	2
JA Mitsui Leasing	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Gaiax	2
GMO VenturePartners	2
STRIVE	2
UNITED	2
Delight Ventures	2
UTokyo Innovation Platform	2
CAC CAPITAL	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Chugin Capital Partner	1
SBI Investment	1
Bluetec	1
Legend Partners	1
MLC Ventures	1
Mint	1
Ikemori Venture Support	1
SIIF	1
IT-Farm	1
Japan Finance Corporation	1
Future Venture Capital	1
Accord Ventures	1
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	1
Saison Ventures	1
Koki Holdings	1
Japan Best Rescue System	1
Angel Bridge	1
Lifetime Ventures	1
Nippon Broadcasting System	1
DOGAN beta	1
Takashi Nagao	1
B Dash Ventures	1
Yusuke Sato	1
XIMERA	1
DG Daiwa Ventures	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Lifull	1
Ryosuke Matsumoto	1
JIC Venture Growth Investments	1
Waypoint Venture Partners	1
Gazelle Capital	1
Persol Holdings	1
Full Commit Partners	1
JR East Start Up	1

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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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business

UB Ventures is venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet of Things, Agriculture
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
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.
NewGreen — NewGreen is an agricultural service firm that provide services that contribute to improving farmers' incomes in the green market.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Japan, Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

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!

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

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OSHIAI — OSHIAI is an AI chat software that lets you communicate with your favorite idol's "Ai" avatar, which represents their hobbies, preferences, and speaking style.
THA — THA is a technology company that enhances performance through IT and creative solutions, focusing on AI, and partnering with companies.
Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management 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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
DelizMart — Deliz Mart is a digital-driven platform that helps to solve food distribution challenges and reduce cost transactions in the food industry.
Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.

Chugin Capital Partner is a venture capital firm that invests in startups and business succession.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
Experisus — Experisus provides Website production, development and management, and software.
Zip Infrastructure — Inquiry : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDmxd1TpPP331TY4VoRsvn0yWX3Ca5Jd-bfBiuPwvpD2SKtA/viewform

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
TOKYO GameFi — TOKYO GameFi is a Web3 firm formed by a management team of developers and engineers with previous experience at CyberAgent.

Bluetec develops products and technologies for building materials related to waste treatment. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

Investment focus

Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.

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.

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.

MLC Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that supports start-up businesses.

Investment focus

Robotics, Logistics, Warehouse Automation
Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Cuebus — Cuebus is a logistic company that provides a three-dimensional robot warehouse that uses linear motors.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Video Chat
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
Sky Link Technologies — Sky Link Technologies specializes in the establishment of new technologies for the improvement of people's convenience.

Ikemori Venture Support is an early-stage startup funding firm.

Investment focus

Task Management, B2B, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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)
Owner's — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.
YeLL — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.

SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Funding Round, Series A, Series D
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CROSS SYNC — The company was founded in October 2019 by Dr. Takaki, a Japanese intensivist with more than 20-year experience in critical care medicine, from his strong desire of wanting to decrease preventable death and sudden changes in patient conditions while in the ICU. CROSS SYNC’s vision is to provide ICU-level medical treatment anywhere. The mission isto help and assist medical professionals utilizing the power of technology so that they can provide high-quality medical care even in an environment where there is a shortage of specialist physicians, and to ensure the best patient outcomes. As a Yokohama University certified startup, CROSS SYNC develops a variety of AI clinical assistant tools in collaboration with affiliated hospitals, the school of medicine, and the department of health data science. By delivering our AI-based platform to acute care settings all over the world, we aim to create a world without avoidable deaths and preventable acute changes for in-patients.
EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
Perkup — Perkup is a coworking company that conducts off-site meetings and training camps for organizations.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Content
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.
Luca Japan — LUCA Japan provides digital access to alternative investments, including but not limited to private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit.
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.

Koki Holdings produces and sells a full line of HiKOKI power tools including lithium-ion battery-operated tools worldwide. It also develops a variety of outdoor power equipment and himac life-science instruments.

Investment focus

Marketing, Enterprise, Construction
Corporate Round
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.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Content, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Consulting
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
Lisse — Lisse offers legal business innovation through the use of AI.
Bloomo Securities — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

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.

Nippon Broadcasting System is a broadcasting and media production company.

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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.

Takashi Nagao

Investment focus

SNS, Video, Brewing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FromTo — FromTo offers construction services.
Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
FLATBOYS — FLATBOYS specializes in planning, development and operation of internet business.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
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.

XIMERA provides product planning, development, and operation of internet services and applications.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Real Estate, Construction
Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Glorang — Glorang is an educational application for university support system.
Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Rebellions — Rebellions builds energy-efficient AI accelerators optimized for Generative AI workloads

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

LIFULL Co., Ltd. is the most extensive housing and real estate information listing service. LIFULL Co., Ltd. provides LIFULL Move that provides reviews and rankings of the moving companies; LIFULL Storage, a storage space searching Web service; LIFULL Interior, a furniture and interior decoration EC site; and LIFULL Nursing Care, a special carefacility searching Web service.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Apps
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Cozre — Cozre the outing and the lessons of the babies and children, to solve the problem of child-rearing.
Aldagram — Aldagram is a provider of construction management app for the construction and construction industry.
Inter Local Partners — Inter Local Partners is a Reconstruction and Agricultural Training Center Project” started in 2013 and creating agricultural projects and building regional networks focusing on “people” who will lead the future of Japanese agriculture

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

Investment focus

Art, Reservations, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
Boston Medical Sciences — Boston Medical Sciences conducts research, prevention, and diagnostics procedures to eliminate colorectal cancer deaths.

Waypoint Venture Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Drones, Construction, Home Renovation
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Digital Clamp — Digital Clamp is a construction company that specializes in renovation, estimation judgment systems, drones, and media business.

Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.

Investment focus

Finance, Fitness, Software
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
Codeless Technology — Codeless Technology is a software development company that helps businesses save time, reduce errors, and improve overall efficiency.

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.

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.

Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.

JR East Startup Program is a program operated by East Japan Railway that provides incubator and accelerator services to startups in Japan. The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Task Management
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.

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