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Top 50 Cryptocurrency VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in February 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Cryptocurrency VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in February 2025

Investor Cryptocurrency Japan investments
Ceres 5
East Ventures 4
MIRAISE 2
DeNA 2
SMBC Venture Capital 2
FreakOut Holdings 2
Money Forward 2
Venture Labo Investment 2
D4V 2
ANOBAKA 2
B Dash Ventures 1
GMO Pepabo 1
Dentsu Group 1
Stone System 1
Incubate Fund 1
GSR 1
MTG Ventures 1
GoldenTree Asset Management 1
Apple 1
MUFG Bank 1
VOYAGE VENTURES 1
giftee 1
Hiroshima Venture Capital 1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 1
Shima Capital 1
Bullet Group Japan 1
Septeni 1
Caica 1
FE Invest 1
SBI Group 1
Mizuho Bank 1
Nippon Technology Venture Partners 1
Internet Initiative Japan 1
Daiwa Corporate Investment 1
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings 1
Kyowa 1
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 1
SOHGO SECURITY SERVICES 1
Nomura 1
Fundamental Labs 1
SBI Investment 1
Okasan Capital Partners 1
NOW Japan 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
COSIMO Ventures 1
Japan Post Bank 1
Monex Ventures 1
Asteria 1
Remixpoint 1
SLD Entertainment 1
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Ceres VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • 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.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
MIRAISE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
  • Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
DeNA VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Education, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 51 investments in the past 12 months
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
FreakOut Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • SNS, Content, Finance
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • VAZ — VAZ is a venture company that transforms everyday small changes into a better society together with YouTuber and other influential creators.
  • 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.
  • 91springboard — Explore 91Springboard, the best co-working company offering premium co-working spaces and shared office solutions. Whether you're a startup, freelancer, or team, enjoy flexible workspaces, modern amenities, and prime locations tailored to your needs.
Money Forward VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Accounting
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Venture Labo Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • 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.
  • Batton — Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
  • Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
  • Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
GMO Pepabo VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
GMO Pepabo, Inc. established in 2003 as a web hosting service company. Since its foundation the company has focused on consumer-targeted Internet services, and today it comprises four business segments: Hosting which operates consumer domain registration and web hosting services, Ecommerce Support which provides ecommerce platform solutions,Customer to customer (C2C) marketplace for handmade products, and Community that facilitates communication among Internet users through blogging and media portal services.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Advertising, Digital Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bunzz — Comprehensive dev tool for Smart Contracts, AI based audit, and analysis.
  • TieUps — TieUps develops and operates SNS integrated marketing services.
  • Neworld — New World Co., Ltd. is a startup company from Fukuoka that aims to make the Japanese brand the No. 1 in the world. For everyone who loves Japan, we will take the leap forward with Japanese manufacturing companies, including the operation of the EC site "CRAFT STORE".
Dentsu Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dentsu Group is a global advertising agency that provides marketing, media, PR, digital marketing, and promotion services.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Social Media, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
  • Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
Stone System VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Stone System provides web application development, system consulting, and server administration services. The company was founded in 1990 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Fressets — Fressets is a Startup to challenge the creation of social infrastructure using blockchain technology.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 30 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
  • Time Prediction — Time Prediction focuses on development of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases.
  • Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
GSR VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 39 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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.
MTG Ventures VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • knowuit — knowuit is a company that provides supply chain efficiency solutions to shippers. It develops and provides "Newit," a supply chain DX tool for shippers.
  • Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
  • Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
GoldenTree Asset Management VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
GoldenTree is an employee-owned, global asset management firm that specializes in opportunities across the credit universe in sectors such as high yield bonds, leveraged loans, private credit, distressed debt, structured products, emerging markets, private equity and credit-themed equities. GoldenTree was founded in 2000 and is one of the largestindependent asset managers focused on credit. GoldenTree manages over $48 billion for institutional investors including leading public and corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds. GoldenTree is headquartered in New York and has offices in West Palm Beach, FL, Charlotte, NC, London, Dublin, Sidney, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Illuvium — Illuvium, the world's first IBG (Interoperable Blockchain Game) is an upcoming open-world exploration, NFT creature collector and autobattler game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Join a graphically-rich sci-fi adventure and conquer the wilderness to help your crash-landed crew flourish!
  • Smartsheet — Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others.
  • Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.
Apple VC Fund · Cupertino, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Transportation
  • Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Grant
  • United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • gamma — gamma. is a media and technology company centered in music, film, podcasting, and creative services.
  • Globalstar — Globalstar offers high quality, low-cost satellite voice and data services to commercial and recreational users from virtually anywhere in more than 120 countries around the world.Globalstar, which was established in 1991 and began commercial service in late 1999, currently offers service from virtually anywhere across over 120 countries, aswell as from most territorial waters and several mid-ocean regions. Signals from a Globalstar phone or modem are received by the company's constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites and relayed to ground-based gateways, which then pass the call on to the terrestrial telephone network.
  • 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.
MUFG Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
  • Akaysha Energy — Akaysha Energy offers full-cycle development for projects including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and renewable energy.
  • Adani Green Energy — Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) is developing a renewable portfolio of 25 GW by 2025 which includes wind power, solar power, and hybrid power projects.
VOYAGE VENTURES VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Content
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, China, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
giftee VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Internet, CRM
  • Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • Xmart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
  • Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
Hiroshima Venture Capital VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Manufacturing, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
  • SmartRyde — October 5, 2021 Bloomberg featured CEO Sota Kimura's thoughts on the company's founding and future business development. March 19, 2021 What We Do to Protect Our Customer All staff are required to wear masks. Provision of alcohol-based disinfectants in
  • SPACER Japan — SPACER is a 24-hour handover IoT locker that can open and close doors with a smartphone.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 66 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Tensegrity Pharma — Tensegrity Pharma is the developer of a novel drug designed to minimize bottlenecks and provide innovative value to patients.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Shima Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
  • Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
  • Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Bullet Group Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Bullet Group is an AD Solution Business
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Security, Blockchain
  • Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Septeni VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Septeni is developing various one-stop services to solve customers' marketing issues focusing on the Internet advertising agency business that has a proven track record in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • YRGLM — YRGLM Inc. provides marketing platform. The Company offers advertising platform "AD EBiS", automated advertising report creation tool "AdRepo", commercial distribution platform "EC-CUBE", and more. YRGLM serves clients in Asia and America.
  • 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.
Caica VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Caica provides information systems solution services for the financial, manufacturing, and telecommunication sector. It provides services such as software development and maintenance support. CAICA serves customers in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Security, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Tech Bureau — Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
FE Invest VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
FE Invest is an investment company in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Security, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
SBI Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
  • BLOCKSMITH&Co — BLOCKSMITH&Co. is developing and distributing of Game&SocialFi services such as blockchain technology, crypto assets and virtual currency utilising NFTs on the Web3
  • DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.
Mizuho Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Nippon Technology Venture Partners VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
  • Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • COMSA — Comsa is a conduit for future ICOs that want to exist in the COMSA ecosystem. As part of the project, a COMSA team is now already in place to provide companies with consultation, expertise and solutions to support their very own ICOs and implement blockchain technology into their business practices using our Zaif exchange and mijin privateblockchain software, all at the same time, as a one-stop solution.
  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
  • Gruff
Internet Initiative Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Internet Initiative Japan is an Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions provider. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and contentdesign. Moreover, the company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ was listed on NASDAQ in 1999 and on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Allm — Allm is a medical ICT company dedicated to shaping healthcare. The company seeks to benefit society by launching next-generation technologies and medical communications platforms for the healthcare industry. The solutions are installed more than 18 countries across US, South America, EU, Japan, Middle East and Africa.
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
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.
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The official site of the TOKAI TOKYO FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • ADDX — Private market Investment with lower minimums. ADDX gives investors access to private equity, hedge fund, real estate & other alternative investment choices.
  • PayPay — PayPay is an online payment app.This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. * 2 For PayPay, per person, the “granting limit for one payment” is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the “total granting limit for one month” is equivalent to 30,000 yen. If you pay by credit card other than Yahoo! Card, the grant rate is0.5%. * 3 If you pay with a credit card other than Yahoo!
  • Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.
Kyowa VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kyowa provides health and beauty care products to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Finance, Computer
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Hmcomm — Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutescreation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology.
  • lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
  • earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
aucfan Co.,Ltd. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, France
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.
  • Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
SOHGO SECURITY SERVICES VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
SOHGO SECURITY SERVICES specializes in the provision and management of security and disaster prevention services. It operates through the segments which include security services, total building management, disaster prevention services, and nursing care.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
Nomura VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • India, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ExcelCredit — ExcelCredit is a Colombia-based Fintech firm that focuses on consumer loans for free delivery or portfolio purchase.
  • Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
  • Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
Fundamental Labs VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
  • Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
  • Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
  • AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Okasan Capital Partners VC Fund · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Okasan Capital Partners is Invest in early-stage venture companies with unique technologies, services, business models and high growth potential, and middle-rater stage companies with a view to listing.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Pittan — PITTAN is a health tech startup that focuses on the development of high-speed analytical equipment for use in the healthcare industry. The company's primary service is to analyze the internal status of an individual's body to promote beautiful and healthy skin. This is achieved through the application of analytical chemistry.PITTAN's services are designed to provide insights into the body's health, which can be used to inform personal care and wellness decisions.
  • Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
  • Xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of ​​creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
NOW Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Next One for the World.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 59 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
  • Smart Education — Smart Education, Ltd. (located in Tokyo, Japan, President Daigo Ikeya) launched it’s kid’s music app “Rhythm Book” for smartphones and tablets. It’s in the App Store as an universal app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. With Rhythm book, kids can learn and feel the rhythm by tapping instruments along with their favorite songs. There are more than 100kid’s songs from TV, cartoons, to choose from and nursery rhymes in English and in Japanese. Stimulate the young mind with genuine and real studio recorded music and sounds. This app is designed to co-play between parents and child. You can purchase more songs via internet and the songs you’ve purchased can be co-owned by the same Apple ID through iCloud.
COSIMO Ventures VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
COSIMO digital, previously COSIMO Ventures, is a pioneering digital asset management firm offering asset management, advisory, custody, broker-dealer, and blockchain and Web3 development services.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Blockchain, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Defactor — Globally empowering businesses to tokenise real-world assets by offering decentralised open-source financial technology. Unlock a new financial future.
  • ICHI — Grow any token with low-slippage, on-chain liquidity
  • BEASY — BEASY Wallet & Forge makes it easy for collectors and creators to mint, buy, sell, trade, and manage their own NFTs. No crypto knowledge required!
Japan Post Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Post Bank provides general banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
Asteria VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Infoteria Corporation is a Japanese company that specializes in providing software and related support, consulting, and training.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Security
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Tech Bureau — Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
Remixpoint VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Remixpoint is an electric services company engaged in the used car sales business and retail electricity business.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Gaia Japan — Gaia is a Financial based Company
SLD Entertainment VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE&DINING" brand.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Series A
  • Japan
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.
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