Top 35 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Eric Di Benedetto
Angel
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5 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs | $1.8M–$89M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, Internet, Apps | $700k–$213M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$47M |
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Dai Tamesue
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Sports, Health Care | |
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Matt Maser
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Banking, Blockchain | |
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Tom Kaiman
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Banking, Blockchain | |
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Amin Azumude
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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Kazutaka Muraguchi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Brian Norgard
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $750k–$15M |
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Shinji Kimura
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $150k–$220M |
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Nick Plante
Angel
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1 | Gibraltar, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | |
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Lanham Napier
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Private Equity | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$175M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, SNS, Internet | $690k–$33M |
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Batara Eto
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series D | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $2.6M–$7.1M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Mizuki Inoue
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | CRM, Finance, Security | $4.3M–$45M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Marketing | $764k–$16M |
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, Art | $948k–$14M |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $329k–$28M |
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Gaku Saito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Finance, Internet | $1M–$45M |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Events, Apparel | $453k–$28M |
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Koki Yabu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Finance, Data Mining | $1.7M–$3M |
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Howard Lindzon
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $450k–$50M |
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Nikita Bier
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps | $2M–$33M |
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Joshua S. Levine
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech | |
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Alexis Ohanian
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Blockchain, Mobile | $1.5M–$152M |
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Taiga Matsuyama
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Analytics | $250k–$9.2M |
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Tomokaz Saito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Finance, Security, Blockchain | |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $2.8M–$5.7M |
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Muraguchi Tomotaka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $385k–$8.5M |
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Private investor at the crossroads of finance & technology: seed, private & public, hedge and other alternatives. Over 30 IPOs and M&A exits in excess of $13 billion in aggregate value...Professional investor in software start-ups for over 25 years, first as a VC, then as a professional angel investor. Specialties include technologyinnovation in financial services, AI and mobile services. Most recent primary focus: disruptive financial technologies with massive impact. Original investor in Lending Club - the world's largest P2P lending marketplace -, Clairmail, now Monitise - the world's leader in mobile banking and mobile money -, Signio, now PayPal - the world's leader in online and mobile payments -, Sentient Technologies - a company seeking to solve the world’s most complex problems through massively scaled artificial intelligence -, etc.Currently, investor in such companies as: Alpaca, Aromyx, Coursekey, Fuzzy, GoShare, GraphWear, Jyve, LeadCrunch, PeerIQ, QMerit, Sentient, Siftery...Please have your project referred and strongly supported by one of my LinkedIn network connections for consideration.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $6M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $510k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
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.
Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
- SAMURAI Security — SAMURAI Security is a best support tech company.
Matt Maser
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
Tom Kaiman
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
Amin Azumude is the Representative Director and Founder of Cryptact.
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- Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Kazutaka Muraguchi is a VC at Nippon Technology Venture Partners. He Attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Gruff — Graph Co., Ltd. is a database renovation and AI algorithm development venture established by Harada Hiroe, a data scientist of the year award winner.Artificial intelligence-based business monetization support CRM support application development and operation Database commissioning development AI algorithm development.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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Browse database — It's Free!Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $750k–$12M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$3.1M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Frond — Building new spaces for communities that can't share a place.
- Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Hedges — The easiest way to trade commodities.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $150k–$107M; Series B $5M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skydrop — Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
- Drifting in Space — Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
Nick Plante is a product developer and software architect, with experience bringing dozens of web, mobile, and crypto products to market over his career as an entrepreneur and consultant. An advisor to HAX since its founding in 2012, Nick joined SOSV full-time in 2015 and founded dlab in 2018 to explore new topics in data decentralization andblockchain technology applications.Prior to joining SOSV, Nick co-founded several companies, including Mogotest and Wefunder, and consulted for a variety of businesses ranging from small product startups to Fortune 500 companies. He has made significant contributions in the areas of developer tools and infrastructure (Mogotest), open source (Docmeta), e-commerce (Wantful), and crowdfunding (Wefunder and the US JOBS Act, shaping the future of equity crowdfunding). He also created the RumbleX hackathon series, the largest online development competition of its kind. Nick was an early believer in Bitcoin (ran a small scale mining operation in 2011), and is passionate about open source, open governance, the democratization of finance, and urban / local sustainability.Nick holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Gibraltar, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- API3 — First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds.
- dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
- Daler Trading — Pioneers in crypto liquidity and digital assets market making, specializing in crypto options and futures trading.
Lanham Napier is Co-CEO at Build Acquisition Corp.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Canada, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $4M–$36M; Private Equity $4M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amelia — Amelia is the enterprise's Trusted AI leader. Amelia has a proven track record of innovation in automation and Conversational AI as a pioneer in AI. Amelia's platform captures the rapid innovation of AI ecosystems and transforms them into enterprise-grade products that are ready for customer consumption. Amelia is used by businesses toincrease revenue through conversational experiences and increase productivity through operations automation.
- dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
- MinIO — MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native, and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.
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, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $690k–$33M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Previously, Batara Eto co-founded Mixi and brought the company public in Japan. He was responsible for creating Mixi in December 2003, and he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mixi until 2008. He started his investment career by co-founding East Ventures and made their first investment in 2010.Batara holds bachelor degree in Computer Sciencefrom Takushoku University Japan.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7.1M; Series A $2.6M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
- Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
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–$28M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- On the Trip — On The Trip is an iOS app that turns your iPhone into an GPS-enabled audio travel guide. It was launched last week and is now available on the iTunes AppStore.
- Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
- 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.
Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan
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- Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudan — Built on spatial perception technology, we seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds in 3D, driving industrial transformation through robotics and digital twins.
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
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, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $764k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shiftus — Shiftus is a communication application that can be used in various part-time job sites such as cafes, izakayas, hotels, supermarkets
- 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
- Giver Take All — Gibber Take All is a Planning, development and management of business sharing platform
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Art
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $948k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
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Browse database — It's Free!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 is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering , Graduate School of Engineering 2007 Graduated from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering April 2007 Joined Goldman Sachs Securities. He is engaged in a variety of investments, from non-performing loan investment, private equity investment, real estate investment toship investment, in the strategic investment department, which is a proprietary investment team. May 2010 Moved to Goldman Sachs Investment Partners to become an investor at his own discretion. Participate in a global hedge fund with total assets of over 800 billion yen, and as a hedge fund manager, invest and manage up to 80 billion portfolios in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, CDS, derivatives, loans, etc. February 2019 Appointed Cryptact Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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- Industry: Apps, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$45M; Angel $1.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
- StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
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, Events, Apparel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $453k–$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 is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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- Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $1.7M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobcast Group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $450k–$8.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
- Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
Nikita Bier
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.
- Diagram — Diagram is a tool for design. They are reimagining UI design in the era of generative AI. They also provide a magical design tool powered by AI. The builders, creatives, and prototypers are looking to grow individually and together. They create radically powerful tools to improve the lives of UI designers.
- Airbuds — Airbuds is the new, fastest-growing social music app. Join our team of ambassadors to spread the word by throwing parties, hosting concerts and other creative activations.
Joshua S. Levine
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- Shur — Shur is a B2B2C connecting the financial services industry to millions of Professionals with Student Loans. Our company-based financial wellness programs integrate alternative credit scoring, advice, insurance, and banking. Borrowers move from debt to wealth creation, while we build new revenue for banks and other financial institutions.
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: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $12M–$152M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arkero — Arkero is the AI transformation partner for sports businesses, connecting ticketing, CRM, and data to automate gameday planning, retention, and fan insights.
- Left Field — Left Field is a dating app that matches users based on shared connections, locations, and personal overlaps.
- Screen Skinz — Shop Screen Skinz for the #1 trusted custom screen protectors for iPhone and Samsung. Design your own or choose from officially licensed screens from NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Colleges, and Sanrio. Disappearing designs within the glass combine premium protection with personalization.
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Browse database — It's Free!Taiga Matsuyama graduated form Waseda University, Matsuyama has been engaged in venture company support for more than ten years in Tokyo, after experience as a consultant at Accenture.Matsuyama became one of the board member of NetAge, Inc (IPO 2006), start-up incubator known by having invested in MIXI – Japanese top SNS and support severalstart-up companies.He also has contributed to the activity for create the start-up eco-system in Tokyo through the NPO Organization BVA (Bit Valley Association). Currently he has established Kronos Fund with angel investors, venture capital fund for investment in emerging early-stage companies.Kronos Fund has invested in more than 20 companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $250k–$9.2M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippo — Shippo is the best multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce businesses. Find the best shipping rates, integrate with e-commerce platforms, print shipping labels, track package delivery, and verify addresses with either our shipping API or web app.
- 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.
- Spectra Japan — Spectra is a Provision of services for artists and fans company.
Tomokaz Saito - Corporate Legal Manager @ Mercari
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- Industry: Finance, Security, Blockchain
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
Muraguchi Tomotaka
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- Industry: Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $385k–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- APTO — APTO is into AI development platform provision business and AI consulting business.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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