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Top 50 Construction VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in April 2025

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 April 2025

Investor Construction Japan investments
Genesia Ventures 4
Incubate Fund 3
ANRI 3
Delight Ventures 2
UB Ventures 2
Gaiax 2
STRIVE 2
JA Mitsui Leasing 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
UNITED 2
UTokyo Innovation Platform 2
ANOBAKA 2
Shizuoka Bank 1
SIIF 1
DOGAN beta 1
Will Group 1
Shizen Capital 1
AG Capital 1
JIC Venture Growth Investments 1
Future Venture Capital 1
Accord Ventures 1
DCM Ventures 1
Full Commit Partners 1
Nippon Broadcasting System 1
Angel Bridge 1
Koki Holdings 1
SMBC Venture Capital 1
Gazelle Capital 1
Mint 1
Coconala Skill Partners 1
GA Investments 1
Lifetime Ventures 1
DRG FUND 1
Seibu Shinkin Capital 1
IT-Farm 1
Mitsui & Co 1
Japan Best Rescue System 1
Lifull 1
Nissay Capital 1
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 1
Bluetec 1
B Dash Ventures 1
Legend Partners 1
Ikemori Venture Support 1
Persol Holdings 1
GOLDEN EGG Ventures 1
D4V 1
CAC CAPITAL 1
Coral Capital 1
Waypoint Venture Partners 1
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Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
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.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
  • Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
  • Time Prediction — Time Prediction focuses on development of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases.
  • Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 25 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
  • Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • Zaimo.ai — Zaimo's AI-driven SaaS budget planning and management software sounds like AI integration can bring significant advantages in automating tasks like tracking expenses, forecasting future spending patterns, and offering personalized budgeting suggestions.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
UB Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
UB Ventures is venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Advertising
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
Gaiax VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • Japan, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Makigumi — Makigumi provides buildings design, management, construction, and real estate consulting services.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
STRIVE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
JA Mitsui Leasing VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet of Things, Agriculture
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
  • LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
  • NewGreen — NewGreen is an agricultural service firm that provide services that contribute to improving farmers' incomes in the green market.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Trace — Secure and reliable voice AI customer support agents for banking, insurance, fintech, and more. We integrate with existing core systems and leverage the latest in AI research to resolve all customer calls end-to-end.
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
UNITED VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
UTokyo Innovation Platform VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • BlueWX — BlueWX is a software company that develops predictive content services that supports in forecasting, and weather analysis.
  • 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 VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
  • DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Shizuoka Bank VC Fund · Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, Japan
THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (the Bank) is a Japan-based regional bank. The Bank is mainly engaged in the banking, leasing and financial instruments exchange businesses. The Bank is also engaged in worker dispatching, real estate appraisement and research, integrated processing of foreign exchange transmission and expense collection, leasing, operationconsulting, computer-related, entrusted accounting, credit guarantee, credit card, Initial Public Offerings (IPO) support services, small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) revival support and security-related businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Content, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
SIIF VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.
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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.
DOGAN beta VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Will Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Will Group is a branding company
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
  • Lbose — Lbose is an internet based company.
  • LAPRAS — LAPRASis an Artificial Intelligence company.
Shizen Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Fitness
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • xMap — Explore xMap, a premier location intelligence SaaS platform. Access vast data sets from multiple industries worldwide, visualize on maps, and drive data-driven decisions. Elevate your business strategy with unparalleled insights and achieve market leadership.
  • Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
  • Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
AG Capital VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Software, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Chipee — Chipee is a social networking platform that enables its users to send digital gratitude in the form of chips.
  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
JIC Venture Growth Investments VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
  • Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
  • Boston Medical Sciences — Boston Medical Sciences conducts research, prevention, and diagnostics procedures to eliminate colorectal cancer deaths.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
  • Second Heart — Second Heart is a medical center that offers preventive diabetic care and awareness programs to avoid foot amputations.
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.
DCM Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.
  • Lingopal — SaaS API Layer for translation
Full Commit Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Content, Fashion
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
  • Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
Nippon Broadcasting System VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nippon Broadcasting System is a broadcasting and media production company.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Medical Device, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Otobank — OTOBANK provides voice content and audiobook platforms and publishing production company.
  • SHOWROOM — SHOWROOM provides live performance broadcasts by idols and celebrities in virtual stadiums.
  • HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE — HIROTSU BIO SCIENCE is a biotechnology company.
Angel Bridge VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
  • Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
Koki Holdings VC Fund · Konan, Aichi, Japan
Koki Holdings produces and sells a full line of HiKOKI power tools including lithium-ion battery-operated tools worldwide. It also develops a variety of outdoor power equipment and himac life-science instruments.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Enterprise, Construction
  • Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 48 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
  • Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.
Gazelle Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Fitness, Software
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
  • DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
  • Codeless Technology — Codeless Technology is a software development company that helps businesses save time, reduce errors, and improve overall efficiency.
Mint VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Video Chat
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
  • Sky Link Technologies — Sky Link Technologies specializes in the establishment of new technologies for the improvement of people's convenience.
Coconala Skill Partners VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
GA Investments VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
GA Investments is an investment company that mainly invests in real estate.
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Investment focus
  • Construction, Cloud Storage, Online Portals
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Conoc — Conoc specializes in the cloud-based business management system, cloud storage, and portal management for the construction business.
Lifetime Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
DRG FUND VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • B2C, Music, Drones
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
  • Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
  • Swap — Swap is a tech company offering IT services and business consulting, as well as supporting companies and educational institutions.
Seibu Shinkin Capital VC Fund · Shioya, Kumamoto, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Apps, Education
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
IT-Farm VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CROSS SYNC — The company was founded in October 2019 by Dr. Takaki, a Japanese intensivist with more than 20-year experience in critical care medicine, from his strong desire of wanting to decrease preventable death and sudden changes in patient conditions while in the ICU. CROSS SYNC’s vision is to provide ICU-level medical treatment anywhere. The mission isto help and assist medical professionals utilizing the power of technology so that they can provide high-quality medical care even in an environment where there is a shortage of specialist physicians, and to ensure the best patient outcomes. As a Yokohama University certified startup, CROSS SYNC develops a variety of AI clinical assistant tools in collaboration with affiliated hospitals, the school of medicine, and the department of health data science. By delivering our AI-based platform to acute care settings all over the world, we aim to create a world without avoidable deaths and preventable acute changes for in-patients.
  • EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
Mitsui & Co VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsui & Co is a general trading company. Mitsui & Co's business area covers energy, machinery, chemicals, food, textile, logistics, finance, and more.They will contribute to address diverse industrial needs, through procurement, supply and sales of iron and steel products and investment to processing and distribution businesses inJapan and abroad.Through business development, investment and trading of mineral, metal resources and metals, they reinforce a stable supply of the resources and materials necessary for both industry and society. They are also active in metal recycling and other initiatives to develop industrial solutions to environmental issues.They contribute to creating better lives through the long-term, reliable supply of social infrastructure such as electricity, gas, water,railways and other logistics infrastructure. They provide sales, financing, lease, transportation and logistics, and project investment in a wide range of machineries, including large-scale plants, marine resource development facilities,ships, and aerospace, motor vehicles, construction/mining machinery and industrial machinery.Their chemicals business encompasses trade and investment in a range of industries, from upstream chemicals such as basic chemicals, fertilizer resources, through to downstream chemicals such as functional materials, electronics materials,fertilizers,aguricultural chemicals and specialty chemicals. They are also pursuing new initiatives such as green chemicals.Through upstream development, logistics and trading of energy resources such as oil, natural gas/LNG ,coal and uranium, they contribute to the stable supply of energy vital to both industry and society. As part of efforts to achieve a low-carbon society, they are also actively involved in next-generation energy and environemental businesses.Adapting to changes in consumption and lifestyles while meeting consumers’ diverse needs, they provide value-added products and services, develop businesses and make investments in the fields of food resources, food products, retail support business, medical and healthcare, fashion, forestry plantation resources, real estate-related business.Through their ICT, Finance and Logistics business, they work on a diverse range of projects aimed at developing innovative business and expanding their business field. At the same time, they aim to strengthen their company-wide earnings base by pursuing strategic projects and new opportunities and providing specialized functions that contribute to the whole Mitsui & Co. group.Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subisidiaries of offices located in the Americas area. Trading in various commodites led by overseas trading subsidiaries or offices located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa area. Trading in various commodities led by overseas trading subsidiaries of offices located in the Asia Pacific area.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, 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
Japan Best Rescue System VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Japan Best Rescue System offers nationwide living emergency services. Its business partners are various real estate-related companies, major non-life insurance companies, various housing manufacturers, and major house makers.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Content, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Jimoty — Jimothy is a free advertisement bulletin board for 9 million people a month! You can post information such as buying and selling second-hand goods, announcement of the event, recruitment information, recruitment of members, real estate information etc.
  • Aki Katsu — Aki Katsu revitalizes housing market and produces businesses such as commercial facilities, dining facilities, and accommodation facilities. The company aims to be a comprehensive producer company for utilizing vacant houses.
  • Koukandekirukun — Koukandekirukun specializes in mail order and construction of housing equipment.
Lifull VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
LIFULL Co., Ltd. is the most extensive housing and real estate information listing service. LIFULL Co., Ltd. provides LIFULL Move that provides reviews and rankings of the moving companies; LIFULL Storage, a storage space searching Web service; LIFULL Interior, a furniture and interior decoration EC site; and LIFULL Nursing Care, a special carefacility searching Web service.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Social Media, Apps
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Cozre — Cozre the outing and the lessons of the babies and children, to solve the problem of child-rearing.
  • Aldagram — Aldagram is a provider of construction management app for the construction and construction industry.
  • Inter Local Partners — Inter Local Partners is a Reconstruction and Agricultural Training Center Project” started in 2013 and creating agricultural projects and building regional networks focusing on “people” who will lead the future of Japanese agriculture
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
  • iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Bluetec VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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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.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Legend Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Legend Partners mainly engages in venture investment development and business creation development. It focuses on the field of real estate, state-of-the-art technology, and medical.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Automotive, Enterprise
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
  • Mantra — MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology.
Ikemori Venture Support VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Ikemori Venture Support is an early-stage startup funding firm.
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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.
Persol Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The PERSOL (Person) group consists of a wide range of companies in over 90 domestic and overseas companies, including staffing, recruitment, recruitment advertisement, IT outsourcing and design development. In order to realize the vision of the group "To the growth and creation infrastructure of people and organizations", they are workingcomprehensively to solve the problems of labor and employment. "PERSOL (Personal)" is a new brand that was born in July 2016. The origin of the brand name is "People grow up through work (PERSON) and solve social issues (SOLUTION)." They support the growth of working people and have a desire to aim for a shining future.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Recruiting, SNS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
  • VISITS Technologies — VISITS Technologies is an internet based company.VISITS Technologies developed a unique consensus building algorithm called ideagram (patented),and succeeded for the first time in the world to quantify people's creativity , discerning ability, and the value of the idea itself By utilizing this technology, not only creativity, but alsoquantifying difficult- to- quantify sensual assets, such as senses,skills, and personal connections , Combined with blockchain technology, value transfer becomes possible.
GOLDEN EGG Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Golden Egg Ventures is a venture capital firm affiliated with Egg Forward, Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Consulting, Recruiting
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HelloBoss — HelloBoss is an AI-based recruitment platform that promotes the mobility of human resources services for job seekers through an application.
  • Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.
  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
CAC CAPITAL VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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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 VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lens — Lens ocuses on supporting corporate activities related to governance, risk management, compliance (GRC), and security.
  • 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 VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Waypoint Venture Partners is an investment firm.
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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.
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