Top 50 Construction Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $788k–$68M |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $6.9M–$73M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$624M |
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First Light Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Advertising | $553k–$255M |
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JA Mitsui Leasing
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Debt Financing, Series B | Information Technology, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence | $403k–$510M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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JR East Start Up
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Internet, Task Management | $140k–$283M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment | $980k–$89M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $522k–$99M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $429k–$500M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$213M |
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Gaiax
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Italy | Seed, Angel | Real Estate, Travel, Content | $171k–$9.9M |
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing | |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $800k–$142M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $746k–$198M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $649k–$38M |
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CAC CAPITAL
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Malaysia, Thailand | Series A, Seed | Recruiting, Internet, Internet of Things | $1.3M–$43M |
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AG Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Finance, Software, Internet | $1M–$71M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $2.1M–$142M |
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Health Care, Internet | $37k–$700M |
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Apps | $229k–$928M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Internet | $2M–$142M |
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Lifull
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Content, Social Media, Apps | |
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Art, Software, Reservations | $2.8M–$28M |
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Shizen Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $440k–$1M |
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Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $349k–$900M |
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Legend Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Marketing, Automotive, Enterprise | |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Persol Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Singapore | Series A, Series C | Recruiting, Human Resources, SNS | $172k–$75M |
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Ikemori Venture Support
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Finance, Task Management, Financial Services | $3M–$198M |
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XIMERA
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong | Series A | Agriculture, Real Estate, Construction | |
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DRG FUND
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Drones | |
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Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology | |
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Bluetec
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals | |
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Mint
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps | |
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Shizuoka Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Debt Financing, Series B | Internet, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment | $517k–$88M |
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Partners Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment | $788k–$37M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Drones, Travel | $700k–$213M |
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Kobayashi Toshihito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Art, Baby, Real Estate | |
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Hideto Fujino
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, Reservations, Real Estate | $3.5M–$43M |
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Takashi Nagao
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SNS, Video, Brewing | |
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IT-Farm
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $1.8M–$50M |
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $775k–$45M |
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Saison Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Content | |
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Koki Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Corporate Round | Marketing, Enterprise, Construction | |
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JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Thailand | Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | |
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Task Management | |
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Will Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources | |
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D4V
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, Apps | |
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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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 269
- Round size: Seed $362k–$46M; Series A $5.2M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $788k–$31M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Eitoss — Eitoss is a technology company which has developed and provided the proposal improvement cloud "Cayzen".
- Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
- Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 235
- Round size: Seed $1M–$94M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
First Light Capital is venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $553k–$31M; Series A $2M–$68M; Series B $3.2M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LobbyAI — LobbyAI provides a wide range of services related to artificial intelligence, particularly around database construction and management.
- Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
- WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.
JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Series B $403k–$127M; Debt Financing $7.5M–$510M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WOTA — Human history is the history of our relationship with water. Water gave rise to our civilizations. Water has nourished people's livelihoods. This means that humans need water supplies, such as rivers and lakes, to survive. At WOTA, we desire to remove every limitation we have in relation to water. By integrating small water systems into the“big water infrastructure” of the past, we can achieve a more creative and sustainable way of life. That is our belief. In cities and deserts, remote islands, and outer space. We imagine a future where water is freely available to all people. Our work will always continue.
- Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
- Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
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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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Task Management
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $140k–$43M; Series B $1.2M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
- ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
- Lineside Marugoto — Lineside Marugoto is a lineside rehabilitation company that entails converting derelict houses along railway lines into hotel rooms and treating the entire lineside neighborhood as a hotel.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $980k–$57M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $522k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
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- PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1M–$85M; Series B $3M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Agatha — Agatha is a provider of strategic software solutions to the health care and life sciences industry. It is dedicated to helping hospitals, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and medical device firms optimize the management of their quality and clinical documentation and processes.
- Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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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- Industry: Real Estate, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $171k–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$198M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
- GenerativeX — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 444
- Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
- Social Bread — Marketplace Influencer untuk UMKM Indonesia
- Appify Technologies — Appify Technologies, Inc.
CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Internet, Internet of Things
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.3M; Series A $1.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $442M in 2018
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.
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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- Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $14M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$24M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $37k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$700M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
- Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
- Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
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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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $840k–$92M; Series A $229k–$928M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
- Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
- Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $4M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
- MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
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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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $15M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $440k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
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.
- Colega AI — Create engaging social media content every day with AI. Colega AI is your AI social media manager that helps your business grow and reach new customers.
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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- Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $349k–$56M; Series A $21M–$900M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
- Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
- Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
Legend Partners mainly engages in venture investment development and business creation development. It focuses on the field of real estate, state-of-the-art technology, and medical.
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- Industry: Marketing, Automotive, Enterprise
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, SNS
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $172k–$75M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- WOTA — Human history is the history of our relationship with water. Water gave rise to our civilizations. Water has nourished people's livelihoods. This means that humans need water supplies, such as rivers and lakes, to survive. At WOTA, we desire to remove every limitation we have in relation to water. By integrating small water systems into the“big water infrastructure” of the past, we can achieve a more creative and sustainable way of life. That is our belief. In cities and deserts, remote islands, and outer space. We imagine a future where water is freely available to all people. Our work will always continue.
- WorkIndia — Our Vision: Work India’s vision is to provide sustainable livelihoods for the 23.7 Cr blue-collar individuals of India and now the 120 Cr blue-collar individuals in this World.WorkIndia is a technology venture based in the mixed collar space (between white and blue-collar space) of the recruitment industry. We aim to connect the right employersto the right employees.In the mixed collar space ( bpo jobs, delivery jobs, accountant jobs, retail jobs, back-office jobs, etc.) getting jobs in thane and getting employees in thane both is a tiresome process. The mixed collar space seeks a solution that simplifies the process for both the employer side and the employee side.Our Product: We have created a mobile application for candidates to apply for the job they would like to do and for Employers who seek their desired candidates. Candidates with this app can look for a suitable job and apply for it in a single click. Rest all the work of checking the eligibility of an employee until scheduling the interview is done by our 100% automated product.
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- Industry: Finance, Task Management, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $3M–$11M; Series A $142M–$156M; Series B $45M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ANSeen — ANSeeN Inc. - X-ray COLOR Imaging
- Mysa — Mysa is a unified finance and banking platform that automates bill payments, smart banking, AI-driven accounting, expense management, and treasury services for businesses.
- NOMU — NOMU provides the personalized drinking experience with its proprietary reusable cup drink machine.
XIMERA provides product planning, development, and operation of internet services and applications.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Real Estate, Construction
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Drones
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 .
Bluetec develops products and technologies for building materials related to waste treatment. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Osaka, Japan.
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- Industry: Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
- Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
- Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.
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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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Series B $517k–$55M; Debt Financing $1.9M–$88M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
- Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
- Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $788k–$1.3M; Series A $2.7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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.
- MoveEz — MoveEz develops mapless autonomous driving technology using proprietary perception and decision-making systems. Their solutions enable sustainable, all-weather autonomous mobility without relying on high-precision digital maps.
- New Space Intelligence — New Space Intelligence is a space research company that provides satellite data pipeline services to optimize user requests.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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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- Industry: Art, Baby, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
- Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
- sketchbook — Baby’s Fun is a baby food kit and infant food kit manufacturing company. The company's food kit offers pre-cut ingredients, enabling customers to reduce food waste.
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- Industry: Travel, Reservations, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$43M; Series A $8M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
- Amateras Space —
Takashi Nagao
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- Industry: SNS, Video, Brewing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ubitus — As cloud gaming enablers, Ubitus' GPU virtualization, Streaming technology and hybrid cloud deployment can serve different kinds of solutions for Telco, Game companies to quick enter cloud gaming market. Moreover, Ubitus provide Global distribution and New Media content solution for new media studio and fashion brand to help them distribute rich media contents worldwide.
- Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
- POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $5.1M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
- Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Marketing, Enterprise, Construction
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Will Group is a branding company
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- Industry: Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 (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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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