Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Drones, Travel | $700k–$213M |
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Robert Huang
Angel
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3 | Japan | Series A | Education, E-Learning, Language Learning | $1.3M–$9.2M |
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Narita Shuzo
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Task Management, Content, Internet | $2.5M–$18M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Kiyoshi Ayabe
Angel
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2 | Japan | Content, Education, E-Learning | ||
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $1.4M–$26M |
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Content, Social Media | $1.7M–$4.3M |
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Yamamoto Kento
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design | |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | |
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Daisuke Yamashita
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Medical, Internet, Education | |
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Yoichi Aso
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media | |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment | |
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Kazuki Moribe
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Video, Training, Web Design | |
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness | |
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Seiya Koide
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design | |
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed | Sports, Education, Information Technology | |
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Kenji Niwa
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Marketplace, Software, Information Technology | |
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Consulting, E-Learning, Communities | |
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Musashi Suzuki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, Employment, Human Resources | |
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Kato Yorihiko
Angel
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong | Seed | Internet, Education, Agriculture | |
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Joshua Schachter
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | $635k–$15M |
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Ken Fuse
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, Employment, Human Resources | |
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Nishiki Takashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Content, Education, Social Media | |
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Yasumasa Manabe
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics | |
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Hideto Fujino
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Reservations, Travel, Real Estate | |
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Takahito Tsukagoshi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, Employment, Human Resources | |
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Kitamura Yota
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, E-Learning | |
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Miko Matsumura
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | |
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Ryuji Terada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Education, Consulting, Human Resources | $479k–$6.4M |
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting | $1.2M–$62M |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Social Media, SNS | |
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Kenji Takada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Mikio Yamano
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, Employment, Human Resources | |
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Mitch Kapor
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Education | $300k–$27M |
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Keisuke Honda
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $1.3M–$213M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$28M |
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Jun Ogawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Information Technology | $2.1M–$20M |
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Art, Software, Reservations | $2.8M–$28M |
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Mark Goines
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $455k–$12M |
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Robotics, Information Technology, B2C | $1.4M–$14M |
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Social, Content | |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $1.4M–$18M |
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Yuichi Tanaka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design | |
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Kazuhito Shima
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Education, Employment, Human Resources | |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $2.8M–$16M |
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Taki Toshio
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Legal, Finance, Education | |
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Sagehashi Yuki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Seed | Content, FinTech, Finance | |
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Masahiro Kotosaka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Education, EdTech, Fashion | |
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Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.
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- Industry: Task Management, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M
- 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.
Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.
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- Industry: Content, Education, E-Learning
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$26M; Pre-Seed $4.3M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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- Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
- HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
- Rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
Yamamoto Kento - Directors CDO @ COUNTERWORKS
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- Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Daisuke Yamashita - CEO @ Next Innovation
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- Industry: Medical, Internet, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Next Innovation — Next Innovation is an online consulting provider for health care.
- Next Innovation — Next Innovation is an investment firm that focuses on the education sector.
Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kamado — Kamado is a publisher of magazines. They offer products that include artist articles, colomn article series, and web magazines.
- Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
- Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Kazuki Moribe is the CEO of Spider Initiative.
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- Industry: Video, Training, Web Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
After experiencing CG designer, freelance, image director etc, joined KLab Corporation as an art director in May 2012. Business promotion and management skills are appreciated, and he joined the creative department manager in 1 year of joining the company and as the youngest executive officer in April 2014. In March 2015 he served concurrently asmarketing director and organized management of several divisions, he was active in a wide range of scenes. We are also focusing on developing creative events for new graduates and planning creative events for regular graduates and giving lectures for students. FiNC led the overall branding and service design while operating the organization as CCO Creative Director.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob
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- Industry: Sports, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cloosiv — Cloosiv is an ordering platform that allows users to order in advance from their favorite coffee shop, skip the queue, and get rewards from the platform to save time and money.
- Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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- Industry: Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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- Industry: Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Kato Yorihiko is a Founder and Director at Bitbank.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Langrich — LangRich blends AI powered practice with real human coaching for multilingual communication skills. A global platform trusted by enterprises, offering personal guidance at scale.
- Agribuddy — Management of agricultural support application "AGRIBUDDY".
Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $635k–$5.4M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nozomio — How do you discover the future of software engineering? We're building it.Language models can write code better than most humans, but they often destroy codebases due to poor context management and understanding. The future isn't about replacing developers - it's about empowering them to orchestrate AI agents effectively.We're creating systems that enable small teams of developers to manage large-scale agent operations across the entire software lifecycle - from development to QA, security audits, and deployment.It's called Nozomio.
- Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
- Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Ken Fuse is a Representative Director at Letters Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.
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- Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Yasumasa Manabe
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- Industry: Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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- Industry: Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Takahito Tsukagoshi is a Executive Vice President at Takeuchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Kitamura Yota
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner at gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) a blockchain focused venture capital firm
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cookie3 — Conversations, clicks, conversions. Every interaction and transaction, all in one platform. Track it all. From yaps to swaps, know what is driving results, which KOLs are pulling their weight, and activate your community. Data-driven insights, every step of the way.
- Bling — Play Bling games to earn free cryptocurrency today! Download our free crypto game BTC Blast, Pop, Solitaire, and more. Win free cryptocurrency just by playing games!
- Souq G-Commerce — Souq is lowering the barriers to access and participate in GameFi. We're building the infrastructure powering community-owned financial markets where players can thoughtfully invest in the games they love.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ryuji Terada is the Partner at Persol Innovation Fund. Ryuji Terada attended Shimonoseki City University.
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- Industry: Education, Consulting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $479k–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Funova — Funova is a consulting company.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
- noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$62M; Angel $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
- H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Kenji Takada - CEO @ Konomichi
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Viling — Viling is a provider of education services for children, including STEMON, a science-math programming school that utilizes building blocks and robot tools; BOKEN, an exploration-based learning school; and Afterschool LeaLea, a primary school that provides lessons for swimming, English, gymnastics and ballet, and more.
Mikio Yamano is a Chairman and CEO of Yamano Beauty Mate Group Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
- Good Money — Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$213M; Series A $5M–$100M; Series B $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
- Astar Network — Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups.
- Freecracy — FreeC a platform that connects millions of employers and job seekers by utilizing intelligent matching technology that is powered by AI.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qurate Inc. (Japan) — Plan, create and manage all your content, across all your channels with all your teams. Try for free now.
- Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
- noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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- Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $15M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Browse database — It's Free!Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $455k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
- Autumn — Autumn connects bereaved families with vetted grief counselors, estate attorneys, funeral directors, and more. Free guides and provider matching included.
- Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
Yoshitsune Ido
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- Industry: Robotics, Information Technology, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.
Suzuki Yuto
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- Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
- Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
- Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $12M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Yuichi Tanaka - CDO @ Visional
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- Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Kazuhito Shima is a IsLand LLC Representative.
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- Industry: Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
Taki Toshio is the Founder at Money Forward .
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- Industry: Legal, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Crediation — Crediation is a digital finance provider that provides small and medium-sized businesses with complete access to financial services to build their enterprises by providing seamless mobile lending experiences. is a stock finance facility focused on helping business owners receive the capital they need to refill their enterprises through convenient,inexpensive, and sustainable loans.
Sagehashi Yuki
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- Industry: Content, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DariaMe — DariaMe is a web media planning, development and operation, planning and production of various contents, online consultation service.
- BrainCat — BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.
- Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Masahiro Kotosaka is an Associate Professor at Keio University and an Associate Fellow of The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is an expert in Internationalization strategy and early stage business development, and advisor to several global start-up companies. Before moving to Keio, he was an associate professor ofmultinational management at Ritsumeikan University, a teaching & research associate at the University of Oxford, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company based in Frankfurt and Tokyo. As a practitioner, he worked for strategy/marketing projects with sixteen client organizations across nine industries and nine countries and spent four years running three profitable IT/Retail businesses before joining McKinsey. He graduated from the University of Oxford with D.Phil. (Ph.D) in Management Studies and MSc in Management Research with Distinction.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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