Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Japan (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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6 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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6 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$68M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $2.8M–$16M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Information Technology, Travel | $700k–$75M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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4 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$28M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $482k–$30M |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $2.8M–$28M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$47M |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $329k–$28M |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Local, Sports | $9M–$68M |
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Keisuke Kogure
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Beauty, iOS, Legal | $194k–$4.3M |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Internet, Task Management, Content | $553k–$68M |
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Mikuru Asakura
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Beauty, Cosmetics | $623k–$1.3M |
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Software, Advertising | $9M–$11M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $457k–$26M |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Software | $1.3M–$74M |
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Fukushima Kozo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | B2C, Freelance, Recruiting | |
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Yuichi Kawaji
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Medical, Wearables, Electronics | |
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment | |
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Sakano Atsushi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS | |
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Hideki Hayashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Drones, Robotics, Consulting | |
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Akinori Harada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Gaming, Metaverse, Video Games | |
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Takuma Kudo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Consulting | |
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Katsushi Ishida
Angel
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1 | Japan | Foundries, Electronics, Industrial Engineering | ||
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics | |
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Hayama Takashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | SNS, Beauty, Medical | |
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Justin Scarpone
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Gaming, Fashion, E-Commerce Platforms | |
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Saito Taro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Consulting | |
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Satoshi Aoyagi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Consulting | |
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Tomitsuka Yu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Apparel, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms | |
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Masahiro Yamashiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Sports | |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content | $7.3M–$26M |
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Employment, Human Resources, Marketing | $9.1M–$26M |
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Video, Beauty | |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Takejiro Kamei
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Consulting | |
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Takahiro Kataishi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consumer Applications, Information Technology | |
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Takahiro Ozawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consumer Applications, Information Technology | |
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Takuma Iwasa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Water, Beauty, IT Management | |
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Sakai Masaru
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Fashion, Internet | |
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Kai Asakura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Beauty, Cosmetics | |
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content | $4.4M–$41M |
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Toshi Yamamoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Beauty, Health Care | |
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Shohei Sasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Fashion, Consulting | |
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Yuki Naito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Internet, Manufacturing, SNS | $652k–$38M |
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Yasumasa Manabe
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Information Technology, Drones, EdTech | $194k–$30M |
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Keith Yuki Isobe
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Seed, Series A, Series C | Big Data, Software, Advertising | $2M–$255M |
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Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $329k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Industry: Internet, Local, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $9M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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- Industry: Beauty, iOS, Legal
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $194k–$4.3M; Angel $2M–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
- Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
- Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
- Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
- CAN EAT —
Mikuru Asakura
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- Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $623k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
Uenoyama Katsuya is based out of Burlingame, California, and is the CEO and Founder of PKSHA Technology. Uenoyama previously worked at The Boston Consulting Group as a Consultant. Uenoyama Katsuya attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Fashion, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $9M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
- AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $457k–$26M; Pre-Seed $4.3M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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- Industry: B2C, Freelance, Recruiting
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
Yuichi Kawaji is the Deputy General Manager, General Consulting Department, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Shinkin Bank.
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- Industry: Medical, Wearables, Electronics
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
Graduated from Keio University, Department of Political Science and Law. 1998 Registered as an attorney. 2004: Mitsui & Co., Ltd. was established. Participated as a partner. 2006 Lecturer, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. In 2011, Inoki Law Office was established. Currently Director, Creative CommonsJapan, Outside Director of SAKURA Internet, Representative Director of Cyberbond, Mercari External AuditorHe assumed the position of.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Sakano Atsushi
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- Industry: Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
- Matsuri Technologies — matsuri technologies is a real estate tech company that provides solutions to support private property rentals. The company's products include m2m Systems, an Airbnb management platform that helps business operators to manage their accounts, communicate with guests, automate check-ins, offer customer service, and more.
Hideki Hayashi
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- Industry: Drones, Robotics, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- GenerativeX — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
- Smart Robotics Japan — Smart Robotics is a development and sales of robot-related products development of robots, drones, and IOT devices (hardware and software).
He is the vice president of mixi, Inc which is social media network in Japan since June 2009. He’s managed “mixi application” and “mixi new year card”. He’s also directed “mixi alum” and “mixi voice” to make it to be more social but community based. He joined mixi, Inc in 2007. He managed mobile development, “mixi mobile” which became a mixi’sdevelopment driver.Before he started his career at mixi, he was managing mainly portal sites such as searching engine section of “i-mode” at NTT Docomo Inc.
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- Industry: Gaming, Metaverse, Video Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Takuma Kudo is the Branding Director at dof Inc.
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
Katsushi Ishida is the President and Representative Director CEO japan elevator service holdings.
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- Industry: Foundries, Electronics, Industrial Engineering
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Seiwa Holdings — Seiwa Holdings is a company that specializes in the welding of large structures. It holds a significant share in the large sign industry in the Chubu region. The company also has a subsidiary, Toei Coating, which boasts one of the largest facilities in Gifu for electric zinc plating. Seiwa Holdings is also involved in the production of road signposts and bridge fall prevention devices. The company operates in the financial services industry and has a workforce of 2 employees.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style
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- Industry: SNS, Beauty, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
Justin Scarpone
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- Industry: Gaming, Fashion, E-Commerce Platforms
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kreation — Kreation is a digital platform connecting gaming, cyber fashion, brands, creators, and users through immersive virtual experiences.
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
- onlyone travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.
Satoshi Aoyagi
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
Tomitsuka Yu - President @ Yuko Yuko
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- Industry: Apparel, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sally127 — Sally127 provide promotional support services and consulting services that can be utilized on e-commerce sites for apparel companies.
Masahiro Yamashiro is the Co-Representative of Growth Camp.
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
- Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
- onlyone travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Industry: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $9.6M–$26M; Angel $7.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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- Industry: Employment, Human Resources, Marketing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $9.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: SNS, Video, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- SAURUS JAPAN —
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Takejiro Kamei
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
Takahiro Kataishi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Consumer Applications, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
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- Industry: Consumer Applications, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.
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- Industry: Water, Beauty, IT Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
Sakai Masaru is an individual investor.
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- Industry: B2C, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
- Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
Kai Asakura
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- Industry: Beauty, Cosmetics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $4.4M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
- NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
- Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
Toshi Yamamoto is an entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley as CEO of ChatWork Japan and US.In 2000, Toshi bootstrapped a business of web marketing and software sales, and made it profitable for the past 12 years.In 2012, Toshi decided to drive all the resources to focus on its own service, ChatWork, set up a US office and moved to SiliconValley. Toshi changed the company name from EC studio to ChatWork at that time.Toshi has also written three books that have been ranked as #1 of all books on Amazon.co.jp.
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- Industry: Apps, Beauty, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emol — emol is an application that records emotions and talks with AI robots.emol provide personalized mental and productivity training based on mental data to promote employee well-being and increase employee engagement.
Shohei Sasaki - CFO @ LeapMind
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yutori — Yutori is engaged in retailing and wholesaling apparel goods and creating brands reflecting diversity in digital culture through media and individual stories. The company does everything from product planning to sales in-house, without intermediary distributors or retailers. Until now, the company has used various tools such as e-mail,spreadsheets, and SMS messages to exchange data.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom
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- Industry: Internet, Manufacturing, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $652k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
- Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
Yasumasa Manabe
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- Industry: Information Technology, Drones, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $194k–$700k; Series A $1.7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
- Amateras Space —
Keith Yuki Isobe is an Investor, Managing Director and Member of the IC Board at DG VENTURES (AUM 600m USD).Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Geniee International Group, President and COO at Adstars and President Director at Geniee Technology Indonesia (TSE6562 A Member of SoftBank Group). Prior to that, he wasCo-Founder of Medically, Board Director and CFO of MEDCARE (exited, acquired by M3), a Next-Unicorn HealthcareTech and Co-Founder and Board Director of Waseda M&A Partners, a Startup Programmatic M&As. Contact Email Addresses: yuki-isobe@garage.co.jp (DG VENTURES)
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.3M; Series A $8.5M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Medcare — Medcare is a medical service corporation.
- WASEDA M&A PARTNERS — APAC Startup-focused M&A and Financial Consulting Firm (Founders are all graduates of Waseda Business School, Waseda University)
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