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Top 50 Construction VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

Investor	Construction Japan investments
Genesia Ventures	4
Incubate Fund	3
ANRI	3
First Light Capital	2
UTokyo Innovation Platform	2
ANOBAKA	2
JR East Start Up	2
Gaiax	2
GMO VenturePartners	2
UNITED	2
Delight Ventures	2
JA Mitsui Leasing	2
STRIVE	2
Coconala Skill Partners	1
Bluetec	1
Ikemori Venture Support	1
West Japan Railway	1
SBI Investment	1
SIIF	1
Seibu Shinkin Capital	1
IT-Farm	1
Lifull	1
CAC CAPITAL	1
Coral Capital	1
Waypoint Venture Partners	1
DG Daiwa Ventures	1
Mitsui & Co	1
B Dash Ventures	1
D4V	1
MLC Ventures	1
Japan Finance Corporation	1
East Ventures	1
Saison Ventures	1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	1
Koki Holdings	1
Gazelle Capital	1
Chugin Capital Partner	1
JIC Venture Growth Investments	1
Angel Bridge	1
Nissay Capital	1
DRG FUND	1
Sagin Capital & Consulting	1
Yokohama Capital	1
Shizen Capital	1
Lifetime Ventures	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Agribusiness Investment Development	1
OPT Ventures	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Mint	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Takumi Giken Kogyo — Takumi Giken Kogyo is a price technology developer to help parts manufacturers quickly identify acceptable product prices. Takumi Giken Kogyo assists in estimate calculation and product function through AI drawing search and repeat project determination function, enabling manufacturers with flexible customization of product functions based oncustomer requirements.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

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

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.

First Light Capital is venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
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.

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

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.
Omnis — OMNIS
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
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.

Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Travel, 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.

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, 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' is a Transaction Banking Platform that enables Corporate, Commercial, and Institutional clients to conduct agile, secure, and robust transactions using Embedded Finance and SaaS. Their goal is to provide deep subject experience to facilitate smooth domestic cash management and payments transactions. In close coordination withbanks, they provide escrows, trade finance, supply chain financing, and custodial services.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Shippio — Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoicemanagement; and documentation support.
NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet of Things, 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

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.

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 .

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

Investment focus

Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Camb.ai — Camb.ai is AI-driven video content localization platform built for content creators and media producers. Join 100s of video first companies who use Camb.ai to dub videos into 100+ languages. All while preserving the original speaker voices (AI voice cloning)
Owner's — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.
YeLL — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.

West Japan Railway is one of the Japan Railways Group that operates in Western Honshu. The company is founded April 1, 1987, and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
CureApp — CureApp is a digital health startup.The firm is one of the leading players in the medical app vertical under the theme of “app exhibits therapeutic effects against diseases” and launched a nicotine addiction treatment app in February 2015, which was jointly developed with Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University’s School of Medicine. It iscurrently conducting clinical trials in many locations.
kokohore Japan — kokohore Japan offers advertising services intended to help companies sell their products. They provide custom-made promotion planning, provide the content to the media to plan and manage owned media, and assist in product development, providing businesses with the assistance they need to survive.

Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ReEir — ReEir is a research firm that develops global regenerative medicine and cell therapy products for ulcer patients.
Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Drivezy — Own the Experience, not the Car
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.
LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
CoLab — CoLab is a technology company that provides robotics, artificial intelligence solutions, and business consulting services.
NutmegLabs — NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Waypoint Venture Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Drones, Construction, Home Renovation
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Straya — Straya is a technology company focusing on the security industry that offers digital transformation solutions.
Samansa —

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series B, Corporate Round
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Numa — Turns BDCs and Advisors into world-class communicators, using visibility + accountability + a healthy dose of AI superpowers
Numa — Leverage modern Generative-AI to autonomously capture every RO, schedule service appointments, and deliver service updates in real time.
Hexagon Purus — Driving the transition to zero emission mobility

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.
Luca Japan — LUCA Japan provides digital access to alternative investments, including but not limited to private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit.
Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

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.

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.
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.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

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

Investment focus

Marketing, Enterprise, Construction
Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.

Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.

Investment focus

Finance, Fitness, Software
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan

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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

JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

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

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

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Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
Goals — Goals specializes in development, sales and operational support for cloud services for food service companies.
Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

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HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
Doctor's Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

B2C, Music, Drones
Seed
Japan

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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.

Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
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.
Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

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GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.

a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Fitness
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

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Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.

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

Investment focus

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

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Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

Agribusiness Investment Development is a venture capital firm that offers agriculture investment for agricultural corporations. It was established in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Seed
Japan

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Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Task Management
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, India

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

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Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

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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.

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