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Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Japan in September 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 September 2025

Investor Construction Japan investments
Genesia Ventures 4
ANRI 3
Incubate Fund 3
Fumiaki Koizumi 3
STRIVE 2
First Light Capital 2
UTokyo Innovation Platform 2
JR East Start Up 2
JA Mitsui Leasing 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
UNITED 2
ANOBAKA 2
Gaiax 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
Delight Ventures 2
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Accord Ventures 1
Saison Ventures 1
Koki Holdings 1
DOGAN beta 1
B Dash Ventures 1
Yusuke Sato 1
DG Daiwa Ventures 1
Lifull 1
Ryosuke Matsumoto 1
JIC Venture Growth Investments 1
Gazelle Capital 1
Persol Holdings 1
Full Commit Partners 1
OPT Ventures 1
Kotaro Chiba 1
Ayataro Nakagawa 1
Will Group 1
D4V 1
Nissay Capital 1
GA Investments 1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 1
DCM Ventures 1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
Kobayashi Toshihito 1
Mitsui & Co 1
MLC Ventures 1
Shizen Capital 1
Kotaro Chiba 1
AG Capital 1
DRG FUND 1
Kenji Endo 1
Shizuoka Bank 1
Coconala Skill Partners 1
Chugin Capital Partner 1
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Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 27 investments in the past 12 months
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, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Nonat — Nonat is a company focused on supporting the future of women and children by driving innovation across generations. It is developing a foundational model specifically designed to address the needs of women and children.
  • Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
  • MetaSensing — MetaSensing specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced attachable Raman sensors, designed to provide precise, real-time chemical and molecular analysis across a wide range of applications, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
  • Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
  • Nominal — Nominal empowers the next-generation economy.Nominal modernizes and automates accounting and financial management, providing robust reporting, multi-entity consolidation, workflow automation (including accruals and revenue), lease compliance (ASC 842/IFRS 16), period-end close collaboration, and much more.Nominal's generativesubledgers transform business logic into actions and insights using Generative AI - without the need for costly engineering or lengthy IT projects. Our shadow-ledger is implemented in days, not months, and seamlessly integrates with existing general ledgers and ERPs.
  • Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.
Fumiaki Koizumi Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
  • 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.
STRIVE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
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!
First Light Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
  • Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
UTokyo Innovation Platform VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
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.
JR East Start Up VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
JA Mitsui Leasing VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Al Travel — Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM). AI Travel reduces business travel arrangements by up to 90% and simplifies application and reporting operations and significantly cuts operations that do not generate profits in the batch settlement.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
UNITED VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI ​​era called “amoibe OJT".
  • Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Gaiax VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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, Construction
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Xtraveler — Xtraveler is a travel company that provides hotel searches, accommodations, and lodging facilities.
  • 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.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tazapay — Experience Tazapay's best-in-class global payment solutions for businesses. Our extensive network supports cards, local payment options, and bank transfers in over 173 countries, ensuring seamless collections, secure holding, and efficient payouts worldwide.
  • TransBnk — Transbnk | Revolutionizing 'Global Transaction Banking' for Enhanced Business Agility, Security, and Resilience
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • 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.
  • NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Saison Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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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 VC Fund · Konan, Aichi, Japan
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.
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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.
DOGAN beta VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • 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 Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Internet, 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.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
DG Daiwa Ventures VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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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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
Lifull VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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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 Venture Growth Investments VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Hacobu — Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform toaccumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
Gazelle Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.
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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.
Persol Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Full Commit Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.
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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.
OPT Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
  • Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • 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.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Will Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
  • Lbose — Lbose is an internet based company.
  • LAPRAS — LAPRASis an Artificial Intelligence company.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 25 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
GA Investments VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
DCM Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • UniUni — Explore our shipping Universe. Our mission is to be your first-choice for last-mile delivery.
  • FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.
  • OpusClip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Kobayashi Toshihito Angel · Kameyama, Mie, Japan
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.
Mitsui & Co VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
MLC Ventures VC Fund · Nihombashi-hamacho, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MLC Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that supports start-up businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Logistics, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
Shizen Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • xMap — Explore xMap, a premier location intelligence SaaS platform. Access vast data sets from multiple industries worldwide, visualize on maps, and drive data-driven decisions. Elevate your business strategy with unparalleled insights and achieve market leadership.
  • Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
  • Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
Portfolio highlights
  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
AG Capital VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
DRG FUND VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • B2C, Music, Drones
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
  • Swap — Swap is a tech company offering IT services and business consulting, as well as supporting companies and educational institutions.
  • First Penguins — First Penguins envisions a world in which everyone interested in sports and culture can reach their full potential and fully enjoy themselves.
Kenji Endo Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Shizuoka Bank VC Fund · Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Coconala Skill Partners VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
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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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Chugin Capital Partner VC Fund · Okayama, Okayama, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Chugin Capital Partner is a venture capital firm that invests in startups and business succession.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Experisus — Experisus provides Website production, development and management, and software.
  • Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
  • Zip Infrastructure — Inquiry : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDmxd1TpPP331TY4VoRsvn0yWX3Ca5Jd-bfBiuPwvpD2SKtA/viewform
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