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Top 25 Digital Media VC Funds in Japan

A list of 25 VC funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Digital Media VC Funds in Japan

Investor Digital Media Japan investments
Seiko Electric 2
Vector 2
ANRI 1
NetAge 1
DFR Asia 1
One Capital 1
Wavemaker Partners 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
FGN ABBA Lab 1
Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization 1
Cygames capital 1
Hankyu Hanshin 1
KDDI Open Innovation Fund 1
Makers Fund 1
Money Forward Venture Partners 1
ThirdwaveSolutions 1
YoStar 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
Sagin Capital & Consulting 1
JIG-SAW 1
QTnet 1
UNITED 1
B Dash Ventures 1
SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan 1
SG INCUBATE 1
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Seiko Electric VC Fund · Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
Seiko Electric has contributed to society with the best products and services. They have continued to develop technologies that usher in new eras based on sound management and human resource development. They will work to develop new products and businesses using original information and control technology and contribute to the construction ofenvironmentally friendly, safe, and comfortable social infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 19 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
NetAge VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
netage, inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and incubation investments. They invests in internet business. netage is located in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • News, Local, Big Data
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • JX Press — The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters
  • Oceans — Oceans Inc. was incorporated on September 16th, 2010 as an internet service company with the expressed goal of making the Internet more useful, more local, more here and now. Specialists from the fields of user interface, user experience, creative, programming and monetization gathered to make this possible. Currently, these development and serviceoperations professionals operate Eyeland(http://eyeland.in), a popular local communications platform.
DFR Asia VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
DFR is a digital media venture studio. DFR conceives, builds, and assumes ownership and execution responsibility for new ventures from inception. DFR is the first company in the world to deploy the emerging studio model in Asia, and the first venture studio dedicated exclusively to digital media.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Breaker — Breaker is Japan's global digital studio.
One Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
One Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Sales
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • primeNumber — primeNumber's is a SaaS-based data integration service that enables engineers to automate the data acquisition process, and systemN, a general-purpose data engineering PaaS platform.
  • H2 Corporation — H2 Corporation offers an automation solution called "AI Estimation" for estimating tasks.
Wavemaker Partners VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Tour Amigo — Tour Amigo is a complete streamlined booking system that is specifically designed for multi-day tour agents and operators.
  • Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
  • Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Content
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
FGN ABBA Lab VC Fund · Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan
FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of ​​creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.
Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization supports small and medium-sized companies.
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Investment focus
  • Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Cygames capital VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Cygames capital is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, IT Infrastructure
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Yoriso — Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”.Yoriso was founded in 2009 and isheadquartered in Tokyo.
  • M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Hankyu Hanshin VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Hankyu Hanshin operates in the urban transportation, real estate, entertainment and communications, travel, international transportation, and hotels businesses in Japan and internationally. It provides various urban transportation services linking railways, buses, and taxis; and advertising services. Hankyu Hanshin is also involved in theretailing business; development, lease, and administration of condominiums, commercial facilities, and office buildings; real estate fund management; and communication and media businesses, such as information services business, and broadcast and communications business. Moreover, it engages in the sports businesses, including professional baseball, Hanshin Koshien stadium, and related businesses; and stage businesses comprising Takarazuka Revue and related businesses. Further, Hankyu Hanshin is involved in the provision of travel and international transportation services, as well as ownership and management of hotels. It operated 46 hotels with 10,000 rooms as of March 31, 2018. Hankyu Hanshin began operation in 1907. It has its headquarters in Osaka in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Web Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
KDDI Open Innovation Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • DataMesh — DataMesh empowers conventional enterprises to adopt intelligent design, accelerate service deployment, and execute cost-effective planning processes by leveraging Digital Twin and Mixed Reality technologies.
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Makers Fund VC Fund · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
  • Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Wellness, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
  • Earth Boat — Earth Boat is an accomodation company that specializes in manufacture, sales, and support services of trailer houses and portable saunas.
ThirdwaveSolutions VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
ThirdwaveSolutions is a network, system integration, outsourcing and information equipment selling company.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Video, UX Design
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
YoStar VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
YoStar is an application that facilitates the adjustment of a telescope towards a space object.
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Investment focus
Portfolio highlights
  • THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 51 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
  • RUTILEA — RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency.
  • AirMembrane — AirMembrane is an industrial company that provides graphene sheets and 2D material products for various industries.
  • PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
Sagin Capital & Consulting VC Fund · Saga, Saga, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
JIG-SAW VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan
JIG-SAW (San Jose) offers neqto, an all-in-one solution for IoT. As an all-in-one, fully managed solution for IoT, neqto provides: hardware, embedded and edge software, communication mechanisms, and cloud. Through neqto, easy and secure bidirectional communication for transmitting, collecting, and controlling things and systems via IoT is madepossible.With their core competencies in monitoring services, cloud technologies, mobile communication modules, embedded systems, and IoT equipment they hope to support and accelerate the automation and decentralization of the next generation of technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Digital Media
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DoubleL — Doublel is a general trading company of pop culture that develops Japanese manga, anime, and games internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
QTnet VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
QTnet is a telecommunication and internet service provider.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Software
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
UNITED VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Recept — Recept is a software company that develops information management apps for educational institutions and business promotion services.
  • MTU — MTU offers medical security cloud services to medical organizations and delivers IT support, including the recent cyber harm to medical institutions, both online and offline.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 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, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
  • Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.
SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Septeni Holdings started as a recruitment consulting company and become an internet advertising company in the year 2000. The company was established in October 1990 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Content, Marketing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sproot — Sproot engages in the media and entertainment business.
  • Gokko Club — Gokko Club operates in the digital entertainment industry, focusing on content creation, public relations, and video production. The company is known for its short drama productions, which are characterized by their condensed content and fast-paced development. Gokko Club handles all aspects of these productions in-house, including scriptwriting,directing, production, and editing. The company also has a strong presence on social media platforms like TikTok, where it has amassed a significant following. In addition to its entertainment offerings, Gokko Club also provides music streaming services.
  • Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
SG INCUBATE VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
SG Incubation was born as an investment company for the formation of corporate venture capital (CVC), which invests in Kyushu's first startup company.Regardless of the stage of growth, the startup company that will be the investor will first value the “human nature” of the manager, determine whether it is a company that should support thefuture, and provide capital and management back up. The Seibu Gas Group will continue to aim for new business areas.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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