Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Japan (October 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ceres
VC Fund
|
6 | Japan, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain | $450k–$120M |
|
D4V
VC Fund
|
6 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $292k–$14M |
|
Eric Di Benedetto
Angel
|
5 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs | $1.8M–$6M |
|
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
4 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $800k–$34M |
|
JAFCO
VC Fund
|
4 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$41M |
|
East Ventures
VC Fund
|
4 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $250k–$30M |
|
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
|
4 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $602k–$48M |
|
NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
|
4 | Japan, United States, Tanzania | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology | $452k–$184M |
|
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
|
3 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $251k–$5M |
|
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $372k–$17M |
|
Oyster Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, Hong Kong, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $150k–$101M |
|
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $605k–$32M |
|
Spark Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1.1M–$103M |
|
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
|
2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Apps, Internet, Information Technology | $195k–$14M |
|
Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $449k–$184M |
|
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
|
2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Fashion, Finance | $19k–$28M |
|
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Japan, India | Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $1M–$19B |
|
Abstract
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$81M |
|
SBI Group
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $2.8M–$134M |
|
Asteria
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Finance, Software | $11M–$15M |
|
Ken Suzuki
Angel
|
2 | Japan, United States | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Hotel, Travel | $320k–$3.7M |
|
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, India, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $578k–$10M |
|
Komura Fujio
Angel
|
2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
|
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $212k–$13M |
|
DeNA
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | E-Commerce, Education, Apps | $281k–$182M |
|
Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $440k–$85M |
|
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$80M |
|
Social Leverage
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $925k–$50M |
|
Fathom Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Norway, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$70M |
|
Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, India, Italy | Seed, Angel, Series A | Health Care, Medical, Software | $200k–$5M |
|
IDEO
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Health Care, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$200M |
|
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
|
2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $19k–$5.7M |
|
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $470k–$21M |
|
Money Forward
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Singapore, India | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Accounting | $944k–$22M |
|
cFund
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $500k–$135M |
|
Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
|
2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
|
OKWave
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, Switzerland | Corporate Round, Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Software | $271k–$926k |
|
Shinji Kimura
Angel
|
2 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $67k–$220M |
|
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $283k–$10M |
|
Coral Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $468k–$184M |
|
SBI Investment
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.3M–$62M |
|
MIRAISE
VC Fund
|
2 | Japan, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting | $183k–$4M |
|
Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
|
2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
|
DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Ethereum, Education | |
|
Dai-ichi Life
VC Fund
|
1 | Japan, Tanzania | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence | |
|
NOW Japan
VC Fund
|
1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Content, Marketing, Software | |
|
Synchrolife
VC Fund
|
1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
|
Nomura
VC Fund
|
1 | India, United States, Japan | Debt Financing, Corporate Round | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | |
|
SOSV
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
|
Howard Lindzon
Angel
|
1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $450k–$50M |
| Access all 401 investors in Japan Cryptocurrency startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $464k–$2.7M; Series A $1.4M–$120M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
- AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
- TASIMOVF — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer, and enterprise technology startups. Partnering with the global design company IDEO, D4V provides both hands-on assistance and coaching to help startups create value via human-centered customer experiences and interactions.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $443k–$7M; Series A $1.2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $292k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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 $5.7M–$6M
- 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.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries and affiliates in the various business segments.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 672
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $800k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to the creations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 370
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$41M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 693
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Series A $1.9M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $366k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
- BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
- EveryWill — Every WiLL will hasten the creation of a new logistical infrastructure that addresses social problems, beginning with the "way we receive" our products.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain has managed a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 834
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$31M; Series B $3.4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $602k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- Essen — Essen is a technological company that specializes in mobility and data analysis, as well as using data to improve transportation.
- Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $452k–$184M; Venture - Series Unknown $543k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
- 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.
- Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $251k–$5M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $277k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — Turn a concept image into editable 3D parts with AI agents for generation, assembly and review. Work with AssetHub to build a production workflow for your team.
- 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $372k–$2.9M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Capital for extraordinary founders.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.2M; Series A $4M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$101M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
- Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
- New Social Theory — New Social Theory is a FinTech company focused on empowering the creator economy. We believe that the future of content and commerce lies in fostering deeper connections between creators and their passionate fan bases.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $605k–$6.8M; Series A $1.2M–$32M; Series B $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Nocall — Nocall develops an automated calling system utilizing AI voice technology.
- Voxela, Inc. — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
- Bulwark Dynamics — Bulwark Dynamics develops autonomous maritime systems for contested logistics and distributed military operations. Its CARAVEL platform is an autonomous beach-landing resupply vessel that delivers cargo from ship to shore without requiring port infrastructure. The vessel supports JMIC and ISO containers, autonomous cargo handling, GPS-deniednavigation, and operations in shallow or degraded maritime conditions. The company also develops vessel autonomy, command-and-control, hull production, payload integration, and sustainment capabilities for defense and maritime logistics applications.
Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 688
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$25M; Series A $4M–$44M; Series B $7.4M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
- Twistbox Entertainment — TWISTBOX ENTERTAINMENT is a global producer and publisher of mobile content. Through exclusive licenses with industry leading brands and direct distribution with over 100 operators in over 40 countries, we provide an extensive portfolio of award-winning games, WAP sites, and mobile TV channels worldwide. From programming to marketing and gamedevelopment to portal management, Twistbox is the total solution in mobile entertainment.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $195k–$4.9M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$13M
- 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.
Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $449k–$854k; Series A $2.2M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Pi Photonics — PiPhotonics develops, manufactures, and sells light pattern-forming LED lighting.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Fashion, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $380k–$28M; Angel $64k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$363k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business. The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operating environment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Post-IPO Debt $150M–$19B; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qupital — Qupital helps e-commerce sellers with our Fintech, bringing them a financing solution that is easier to apply, more efficient and at a lower cost.
- Bird — Deliver transactional notifications, run marketing broadcasts, and handle two-way customer replies across Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, and Voice with Bird's REST API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server.
- DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform that deploys, manages, and scales applications of any size. Its infrastructure and platform-as-a-service solutions provide a no DevOps required experience, allowing developers to focus their energy on creating innovative software. By combining the power of simplicity, love for the developer community, anobsession for customer service, and the advantages of open source, DigitalOcean brings software development within the technical and economic reach of anyone around the world.DigitialOcean was formed in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Abstract is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco with $1.5 billion in assets under management. We are sector-agnostic and invest in seed and early stage companies. Our reputation among founders is built on fierce loyalty, unparalleled connections, and a relentless drive to help them win.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 431
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$33M; Series B $25M–$81M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ghost — Ghost is a consumer hardware and software company building a private, local-first computing system for personal artificial intelligence.
- Harbor — Harbor is a specialized platform designed to provide insurance and risk management for the AI agentic economy. As AI agents increasingly take over autonomous decision-making tasks within enterprise environments, they introduce unique operational, security, and regulatory risks that traditional safety controls are not built to handle.
- Torch Systems — Ultra early fire detection and analytics platform. Built for communities, enterprises, and the environment
SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$62M; Series B $7M–$54M; Series C $13M–$134M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ajaib — Mulai investasi online dengan Ajaib. Platform investasi terpercaya yang aman, sudah berizin dan diawasi OJK & BAPPEBTI. Download aplikasinya & daftar sekarang!
- GeoDreams — GeoDreams is a clean energy and geothermal technology company focused on next-generation closed-loop geothermal power generation.
- Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
Asteria is a software development company that provides products and services that “connect” systems, people, things and intentions based on the concept of “Connecting the World with Software”. Its flagship product, ASTERIA Warp, is middleware which integrates data from different systems and cloud services without coding. As of August 1, 2023, it has been adopted by over 10,000 companies. Another product, Handbook X, is a business negotiation support app which enables consolidated management of data from various sources, such as documents, videos, and websites, through the cloud. Mobile app building tool Platio allows users to easily create and distribute mobile apps befitting specific in-house tasks. Node integration platform Gravio enables integrated management of data collected from multiple sources without coding. By offering these products, Asteria promotes digital transformation (DX) and helps organizations improve their business process efficiency. Asteria is also engaged in raising awareness of new technologies and their values, and fosters innovation through participation in the launch of Blockchain Collaborative Consortium and No Code Promotion Association.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series B $11M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!As SmartNews’s Co-CEO, Ken is responsible for its business and corporate operations, as well as its product vision and strategy. Ken co-founded SmartNews with Kaisei Hamamoto in 2012, and has been a member of the board of directors since then. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in complex systems from the University of Tokyo, where, as a projectresearcher, he continues to study complex systems and the future of the Internet. Ken was honored as a Super Creator by the MITOH Program of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2003. His first book, published in 2013, has been widely read in Japan's academic community, where he's regarded as one of the most significant thinkers about the Internet society.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SNS, Hotel, Travel
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $320k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
- 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.
We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $578k–$8.2M; Series A $733k–$7.3M; Series B $3.7M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
- FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
- 91springboard — Discover premium coworking spaces, private enterprise offices and managed office spaces. Flexible workspaces with modern amenities and exceptional hospitality designed for growing businesses.
Komura Fujio
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 390
- Round size: Seed $282k–$1.8M; Debt Financing $212k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
- Intentia — Intentia is a technology startup that specializes in developing and implementing operational support AI agents tailored for the manufacturing and wholesale sectors. The company designs AI tools that seamlessly integrate into existing workflows instead of completely replacing legacy IT architecture.
DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Education, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $281k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$44M; Venture - Series Unknown $496k–$182M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
- Shizuku AI — Shizuku is an open-source Android app that enables other apps to access elevated system APIs without requiring full root access on your device. It achieves this by running a background service launched via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or wireless debugging on Android 11+, granting limited privileged permissions safely.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $953k–$7.1M; Series B $3.5M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $440k–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
- Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
- SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $6.8M–$33M; Series B $8.6M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $83M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.
- Kontempo — Kontempo is the leading B2B payments platform built and designed specifically for the industrial sector in Mexico. Our software allows wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors to offer flexible payment terms, including credit and installment pricing, to their customers in a fast, user friendly way. Powered by our advanced API's andAI-driven risk models, we help your business process more credit for more clients, without absorbing additional financial risk and without the need for additional capital.
- Angle Health — Angle Health provides a technology-enabled health insurance platform to simplify employer-sponsored healthcare benefits. The company's service offers fully configurable group health plans that employers can tailor and deploy quickly through its “Benefit Builder” and “Quote-to-Card” tools, often eliminating the need for individual member-level underwriting. It integrates medical, pharmacy, demographic, claims, and population-health data with AI-enabled analytics to help employers, brokers, and care teams anticipate health needs and design plans accordingly. Angle Health’s plans typically include telemedicine, digital behavioral health, chronic-disease management, and access to a national network of doctors and providers—services that are often bundled into standard coverage.
Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $925k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Newcase.ai — Connect all facts from records, depositions, and evidence into clear timelines with one intelligence layer. Get case-wide context that uncovers contradictions and highlights key admissions with exact citations.
- SyntheticFi — Help your client borrow against their investments at under 4% interest rate with universal tax deductibility. Support major RIA custodians such as Schwab and Fidelity.
- Elio Mortgage — Elio Mortgage LLC is an AI-native mortgage brokerage startup designed to blend human relationships with automated backend support. The company functions as a modern alternative to traditional retail lenders and legacy brokerages.
Backing Deep Innovation.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Norway, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.4M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $30M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Runhouse — Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
- Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes. After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind. It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
- ConductorOne — Govern workforce access, deploy AI agents, and get work done with C1.
The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Angel $400k–$1.8M; Series A $1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
- HealthMe — HealthMe is a marketplace platform that allows patients to shop for healthcare like they shop for any other product. They provide prepayment of packages, which streamlines office workflow, decreases no-shows, and enhances patient communications.
- RealSeq Biosciences — We're discovering new biomarkers to advance next-generation diagnostics that provide deeper insights and improve more lives.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm. Some of their clients include Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Microsoft , Nokia , Intel, Eli Lilly, Samsung , and Steelcase.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$200M; Series A $1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- LifeScore — LifeScore is the generative music platform embracing AI for the benefit of artists. We provide high quality, endlessly varying, commercializable streams of music that respond to listener input.
- EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $182k–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$184k
- 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 689
- Round size: Seed $470k–$16M; Series A $1.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $525k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Craft —
- Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Accounting
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $944k–$21M; Series A $1.6M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sleek — All-in-one business finances and admin for business owners, SMEs and investors in Singapore. Get started with our 100% online platform.
- Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
cFund is an early-stage sector agnostic venture firm in the Blockchain industry anchored by IOG and managed by Wave Digital Assets.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $500k–$135M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
- Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
OKWAVE is an internet company that provides a question-and-answer site and aims to enhance customer response to inquiries.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Corporate Round $271k–$926k
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRD — BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software. It offers a platform that delivers crypto purchasing, commercial register, credit rating information, management, figures, contact and news, trading, and merchant services. BRD serves customers worldwide. Aaron Voisine and Adam Traidman founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Zurich inSwitzerland.
- LastRoots — LastRoots is a cryptocurrency developer.
- Tech Bureau — Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $120k–$107M; Series B $4M–$220M; Venture - Series Unknown $67k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
- 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 — Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. In addition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $283k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $389k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
- GEMBA — GEMBA develops on-site improvement DX services specialising in the manufacturing industry.
- NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $468k–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$41M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
- DeltaForesight — DeltaForesight is a business that creates B2B services and goods with a focus on stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. In order to develop solutions that may be applied in Japan, it emphasizes bridging laws, business practices, and technological advancements.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator". SBI Investment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 456
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $4.5M–$62M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $183k–$4M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.6M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
- Packative — Platform to design and order custom packaging online
- CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Education
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
- CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
Dai-ichi Life is a private insurance company that provides life insurance and pension products services. It is the second-largest private life insurance company in Japan as measured by total assets as of March 31, 2014.Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-ichi Life was the oldest mutual insurance company in Japan until it was demutualized andlisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010.As of March 31, 2014, total assets were ¥37.7 trillion (USD$366.3 billion) on a consolidated basis. Based in Tokyo, Dai-ichi Life has approximately 67,000 employees and 1,345 sales offices throughout Japan. It also has overseas life insurance businesses in Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and India as well as offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
- COMICSMART — Comic Smart is animation production business that develops exclusive manga and anime content.
- Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
Next One for the World.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Marketing, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
SynchroLife is the world's first social restaurant discovery service with a blockchain-based reward system for reviewers. It uses borderless cryptocurrency to give review rewards and cashback for dining out to users, and to connect users and restaurants to solve marketing problems for restaurants.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through fivebusiness divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.Nomura with a nationwide network of branch offices, call centers and Internet services, the company continues to provide world-class products and services centered on consulting-based sales, and implement a series of strategic initiatives to ensure we remain a trusted partner to its clients.Asset Management achieves stable and sustainable growth as an asset management company that is trusted by investors around the world and will contribute to an increase in earnings by expanding the client franchise of the Nomura Group.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Corporate Round
- Geography: India, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
- Odata Brasil — Odata Brasil S.A. operates a network of data centers. The Company provides colocation services, as well as infrastructure solutions for electronic equipment.
- XCL Education — Facebook-f Envelope Linkedin-in Shape your future, find your way About Us Our Locations Our Institutions Our People Why we are here XCL Education aspires to be a trusted and respected future-focused family of schools, fostering curiosity, excellence, and creating life-shaping impact on our students, staff, and communities we serve. 1 Students across Southeast Asia 1
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
Howard Lindzon - Founder, Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $450k–$6.2M; 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.
Cryptocurrency Investor funding in Japan at a glance
Stats across 200 deals from 401 investors.
Access all 401 investors in Japan Cryptocurrency startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Cryptocurrency Investors in Japan investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 401 investors investing in Japan Cryptocurrency startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!