Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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D4V
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $443k–$18M |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain | $330k–$120M |
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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–$6M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.3M–$53M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $263k–$31M |
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NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Tanzania | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology | $452k–$184M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$71M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $667k–$32M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$52M |
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Oyster Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Hong Kong, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $150k–$101M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $318k–$17M |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $440k–$85M |
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Asteria
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series B, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Finance, Blockchain | $11M–$15M |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Money Forward
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, India | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Accounting | $944k–$22M |
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$80M |
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Social Leverage
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$50M |
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cFund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $500k–$135M |
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Fathom Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Norway, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$70M |
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Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Italy | Seed, Angel, Series A | Health Care, Medical, Software | $200k–$5M |
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IDEO
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Health Care, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$200M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$68M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $19k–$5.7M |
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MIRAISE
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting | $183k–$4M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $275k–$5M |
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Ken Suzuki
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Hotel, Travel | $320k–$3.7M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Software | $137k–$19M |
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Spark Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$250M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.9M–$62M |
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Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $449k–$184M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Fashion, Finance | $19k–$28M |
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OKWave
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Switzerland | Corporate Round, Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Software | $271k–$926k |
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DeNA
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Education, E-Commerce, Content | $753k–$47M |
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $733k–$47M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, India | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $1M–$2B |
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Abstract
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$81M |
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SBI Group
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $2.8M–$70M |
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Republic capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | |
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GSR
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Amin Azumude
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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Apple
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, Taiwan | Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Grant | Manufacturing, Software, Transportation | |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, France, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Software, Task Management, Internet | |
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Gaku Saito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Ethereum, Education | |
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Dai-ichi Life
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Tanzania | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence | |
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NOW Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Content, Marketing, Software | |
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D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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- 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–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $823k–$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.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $464k–$4.5M; Series A $1.4M–$120M; Venture - Series Unknown $330k–$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
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 $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.
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 hasmanaged 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 776
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
- 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.
- 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.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 632
- Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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 thecreations 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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$71M; Series B $5.5M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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 $876k–$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.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $667k–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$32M; Series B $4.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
- RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 641
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$52M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
- 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.
- Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.2M; Series A $4M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$101M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $318k–$5.7M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- 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.
Infoteria Corporation is a Japanese company that specializes in providing software and related support, consulting, and training.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series B $11M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Accounting
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, 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.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- 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
- Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
- Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
- Faye — Travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 support, instant claims processing and more.
Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $1M–$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 — Borrow like a hedge fund, at near Fed Funds rate. Floating line or fixed rate loan, all tax deductible. Check out our Bloomberg coverage https://t.co/wCogxB6uIK
- Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans
cFund is an early-stage sector agnostic venture firm in the Blockchain industry anchored by IOG and managed by Wave Digital Assets.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 — Runhouse is an ML platform that demolishes research, production, and infra silos for ML Engineers, Researchers, and Data Scientists. Runhouse OSS is a unified interface into compute and data infra which is unopinionated, ergonomic, and powerful enough for fast experimentation, full-scale deployment, and everything in between.
- 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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- 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.
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.
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- 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 656
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- 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.
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!
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- 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.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $275k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $365k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
- PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
- 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.
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, 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.
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.
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- 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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $215k–$19M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $137k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 661
- Round size: Series A $4M–$38M; Series B $7.3M–$103M; Series C $20M–$250M
- 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.
- Profluent Bio — Profluent Bio is an AI-first protein design company that designs novel, optimal proteins that bypass existing barriers in industry.
- Next New Networks — Next New Networks is a new kind of media company. As the leading independent producer of online video networks, we create, brand, market and syndicate some of the Web's most popular programming. We bring together the best elements of TV programming and Internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and distribute content. Since its inception in March 2007, Next New Networks has launched over twenty networks, and our programming has been viewed nearly 2 billion times! We currently work with some of the best creators on the web in categories such as: animation, food, entertainment, comedy, video gaming, movies, fitness, pets, and sports. You can see some of our Next New Creators' channels listed to the right. And a list of our current networks below. Now, lets talk about you! Is there a community you're a part of that lacks or wants programming? Let us know. If you're a writer, producer, or creator who's passionate about your community, then maybe you should be a part of our next next network. For more information, visit illuminati http://www.nextnewnetworks.com/page/next-new-creators
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 448
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4.5M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $449k–$854k; Series A $6.2M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
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- 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.
OKWAVE is an internet company that provides a question-and-answer site and aims to enhance customer response to inquiries.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Corporate Round $271k–$926k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% 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.
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.
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- Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $753k–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Between — Between is a private space where you can share each moment only with that special someone. Create, share, and remember all your moments with each other. Get started now!
- 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.
We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $747k–$8.5M; Series A $733k–$47M; 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.
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 operatingenvironment 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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anillo Vial — Ring Road Concession Company is a private infrastructure consortium tasked with designing, building, and operating a major multi-district highway project under a public-private partnership framework.
- Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
- Aditya Birla Renewables — Aditya Birla Renewables is a leading provider of solar, wind, and hybrid power solutions to public and private-sector customers across India.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 424
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9.8M; Series A $9M–$33M; Series B $25M–$81M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114k in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- June — Transform enterprise system deployment with June. AI-driven implementation for Salesforce, Snowflake, SAP & more. No downtime, faster delivery, full control.
- Foundation Industries — Foundation Industries provides manufacturing technology and services focused on fast, low-volume, high-mix CNC machining for hard tech companies. The company offers an online portal where engineering teams can upload designs, define specifications, and receive transparent quotes for custom components. Its system supports domestic production runswith turnaround times as short as two days for qualifying orders. Foundation Industries focuses on helping hardware teams move efficiently from design to production by simplifying quoting, ordering, and tracking in one place. The company serves deep tech and physical engineering organizations that need rapid prototyping and small-batch production of precision-machined parts. Its services are intended to reduce lead times, increase predictability, and support the development and launch of complex hardware systems.
- Foundational Industries — Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$62M; Series B $7M–$70M
- 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!
- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- NOT A HOTEL — NOT A HOTEL develops a vacation-home ownership and hospitality platform that enables customers to purchase usage rights to architect-designed homes and access a network of properties through a shared ownership model. The company offers vacation residences that can be purchased in increments based on annual usage, with ownership providing recurringaccess to the selected property and reciprocal use of other participating NOT A HOTEL properties. Its platform combines real estate ownership, hospitality operations, property management, reservations, concierge services, and digital tools that allow owners to manage stays, check in, and access services through a mobile application. NOT A HOTEL also provides hotel-style accommodation to guests and manages properties on behalf of owners, including maintenance, cleaning, and operational services. The company collaborates with architects, designers, and other creators to develop individually designed residences and is expanding its hospitality offering through additional properties and hotel brands.
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Browse database — It's Free!Republic Capital is driven by a multifaceted value proposition and invests in companies across deep tech, fintech, and web3.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CERE Network — Cere Network is a blockchain CRM ecosystem platform optimized for service data integration and collaboration. The Cere Blockchain solutions capture the entire customer journey on the blockchain and stores key user data such as purchases, achievements, and usage in the user wallet.
- Zebec — Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.
- Orthogonal Thinker — Orthogonal Thinker holding invests in and accelerates the growth of high frequency companies and products.
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
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Privasea — Privasea is a company that provides global clients with tailored computing and data sharing solutions that conform to security standards while allowing user to use all of data, including sensitive types.
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Canopy — Canopy is a DeFi platform built on Movement that leverages a dynamically balanced dual-token ecosystem of $LEAF and $OAK, as well as the ability for users to offer liquidity with single asset deposits.
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: no public data
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Grant
- Geography: United States, China, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- iHairium — We help people who suffer from hair loss & baldness with AI diagnosis of hair and skin for 10 minutes, with treatment and recommendations, with online consultations and hair care support, or with choose a clinic for hair restoration and hair trasplant
- financemanras — Finanncemantras.com is a one stop solution to get simplified answers of your all financial queries in laymen terms. The Finanncemantras simplifies personal finance for you. It is the home of experts who offer clear and practical advice about managing your money. We publish finance news, Tips, Reviews, and how-to guides to help you understand everyaspect of your financial lives. Our articles will answer your financial questions. More than 50 of our expert writers are qualified and experienced in their respective fields, including MBAs and PhDs, CFPs and other advanced degrees.
- M3 Technology — M3 Technology is a manufacturing company that specialises in the comprehensive cycle of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, from design and testing to production and marketing. The company primarily focuses on the design and sales of high-end power management ICs, delivering efficient and stable voltage regulation with minimal inductanceand low interference.
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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- Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
- Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
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: no public data
DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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