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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan EdTech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan EdTech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $482k–$30M
Robert Huang
Angel
3 Japan Series A Education, E-Learning, Language Learning $1.3M–$9.2M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
2 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $457k–$26M
Narita Shuzo
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Task Management, Content, Internet $2.5M–$18M
Kiyoshi Ayabe
Angel
2 Japan Content, Education, E-Learning
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
Mitsuo Aikawa
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Education, EdTech, Infrastructure
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series B, Angel Content, Sports, Human Resources $1.4M–$221M
Noguchi Keito
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content $7.3M–$26M
Hiroki Nakamura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Web Design, Sales $661k–$18M
Justin Waldron
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Chile Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $50k–$5.3M
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
1 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel Information Technology, SNS, Internet $2.8M–$5.7M
Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech $1M–$4.5M
Dai Tamesue
Angel
1 Japan Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Sports, Health Care
Cheng Tao
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Telecommunications, Content, Internet
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Music $745k–$100M
Takashi Sato
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel FinTech, Software, Analytics
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Post-IPO Equity Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content $4.4M–$41M
Christoph Janz
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $750k–$80M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Toru Shimada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Task Management, Content $553k–$68M
Ichihara Takahisa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, Employment, Human Resources
Tetsuro Kouda
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Gaming, Social, Sports
Daisuke Kitami
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, Employment, Human Resources
Tetsuro Yoshimatsu
Angel
1 Japan Seed Legal, Sales, Biofuel
Kengo Suzuki
Angel
1 Japan Seed EdTech, Education, Service Industry
Etsuji Otsuka
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Software, Training
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.7M–$4.3M
Yamamoto Kento
Angel
1 Japan Seed E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
Yusuke Sato
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
Daisuke Yamashita
Angel
1 Japan Angel Medical, Internet, Education
Yoichi Aso
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Kazuki Moribe
Angel
1 Japan Seed Video, Training, Web Design
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seiya Koide
Angel
1 Japan Seed E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
Gaku Nakamura
Angel
1 Japan Pre-Seed Sports, Education, Information Technology
Kenji Niwa
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Marketplace, Software, Information Technology
Hikaru Kashida
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
Musashi Suzuki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, Employment, Human Resources
Kato Yorihiko
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong Seed Internet, Education, Agriculture
Joshua Schachter
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $635k–$15M
Ken Fuse
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, Employment, Human Resources
Nishiki Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Angel Content, Education, Social Media
Yasumasa Manabe
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics
Hideto Fujino
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
Takahito Tsukagoshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, Employment, Human Resources
Kitamura Yota
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, E-Learning
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Robert Huang
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $510k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$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.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • 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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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kiyoshi Ayabe
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mitsuo Aikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Mitsuo Aikawa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Infrastructure
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vitabi — Vitabi is a company that offers a healthcare app for overseas travelers.
  • 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.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Sports, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$48M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • CAN EAT
  • Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $9.6M–$26M; Angel $7.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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Hiroki Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Design, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
  • Be-A Japan — Bé-A Japan producer and distributor of fashion accessories. They provide products that include underwear, sanitary napkins, interior goods, fashion accessories, health foods, and cosmetic products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
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Justin Waldron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Truffle — Truffle develops an infrastructure creator's platform to enhance the web experience for developers and creators. The platform focuses on providing tools and resources that streamline the development process, enabling users to build, deploy, and manage web applications more efficiently.By offering a suite of features tailored to the needs ofdevelopers, Truffle aims to simplify complex tasks and improve productivity. The platform supports various aspects of web development, including collaboration, version control, and deployment, making it easier for creators to focus on their projects.Truffle's commitment to innovation and user experience positions it as a valuable resource for developers looking to optimize their workflows and enhance their online presence. Through its platform, Truffle seeks to empower creators by providing them with the tools they need to succeed in the digital landscape.
  • Remix — Remix is a platform combining AI and mobile gaming, designed to offer on-chain, AI-powered games.
  • Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
  • RootWave — RootWave is an electronics company that develops tools that kill weeds it enables farmers to control weeds on their farm. Its technology is an alternative substitute for herbicides and other weed control chemicals. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
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Dai Tamesue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • 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.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • SAMURAI Security
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Cheng Tao
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Telecommunications, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Girasol Energy — Girasol Energy is an IoT Platform provides innovative PLC technologies that enable wiser PV Plants.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$8M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
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Takashi Sato
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Takashi Sato is a Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RIZAP — RIZAP is a chain of a private gym that offers fitness training and consulting services.
  • Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
  • Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $4.4M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
  • NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
  • Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
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Christoph Janz
Angel · Ludwigsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). In 2008 he became an angel investor anddiscovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8.9M; Series A $6.4M–$19M; Series B $23M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SaaStock — SaaStock was founded by Alexa Theuma on a simple belief: When the SaaS community comes together, the result is collective improvement.That’s why SaaStock events connect key players in the world of SaaS, by serving as a platform for learning, networking, demos, and investments. The premier 3-day SaaStock conference occurs annually in Dublin,Ireland. It attracts 3000+ attendees, all in the business of growing and scaling B2B SaaS companies.The conference includes satellite events such as: 1. SaaS.City - A series of SaaS management bootcamps. 2. InvestStock - An investor-only, content and networking event. 3. Startup Programme - An opportunity for startups to showcase products, connect with investors, and accelerate their growth. 4. Global Pitch Competition - A hunt to find the year’s “Best SaaS Startup” with a $25,000 grand prize.SaaStock also hosts 1-day, SaaStock On Tour events in locations including Paris, London, Sydney, Helsinki, Berlin, and New York.
  • NexHealth — Join thousands of doctors, hundreds of developers, and millions of patients using NexHealth for EHR-integrated real-time online scheduling, patient communications, digital paperwork, and more.
  • Server Density — Server Density is a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. The tool syncs with major cloud providers and allows users to monitor their websites and servers from a single console, API, and mobile app; enabling them to diagnose problems, maintain uptime, and maximize performance. Server Density is available onLinux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD servers.Server Density offers automatic agent installation for Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as well as alternative installer for scripts and packages that works in any environment.Users can receive server monitoring alerts in the form of emails, SMS, push notifications, PagerDuty, and web hooks. They can stack, collect, and compare alerts with graph dashboards across servers and clusters. Metrics can be automatically pulled in from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Rackspace.Server Density was launched in 2009 by David Mytton and is operated from London, United Kingdom.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$68M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • CAN EAT
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Ichihara Takahisa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Ichihara Takahisa is a Representative Director at Yaosen Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tetsuro Kouda
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Tetsuro Kouda was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture in 1985.After graduating from Sasebo National College of Technology, Kouda was admitted to the University of Tsukuba for systems engineering.After graduation, Kouda was hired by Accenture to work in management consultation. Kouda worked with electrical manufacturing in major companies,high-tech business strategy, marketing, and IT consultation. Upon retirement, Kouda and Shiota co-founded Akatsuki.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • Whomor — Whomor is a Tokyo-based company that delivers illustrations for social games.
  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
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Daisuke Kitami
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Daisuke Kitami is the Representative of Wavy.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tetsuro Yoshimatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Tetsuro Yoshimatsu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of istyle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, Sales, Biofuel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Coconala — Coconala operates a website to buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. It provides a broad range of services for sellers including fortune-telling, relieving mental anguish, illustration, design, consultation for hobbies, and travel destinations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Japan.
  • Fermenstation — Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology.
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Kengo Suzuki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kengo Suzuki is the Co-Founder of Glocalink Singapore. Kengo attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
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Etsuji Otsuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Etsuji Otsuka - Co-founder and CIO @ TRUIM Partners

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Coursebase — Coursebase is a developer of a learning management system used in providing training through an enterprise web application. It delivers and manages all types of training that help to automate course registration, grading of assignments, email reminders, surveys, and reports for online and in-person training courses that enable clients to createcourses and assign tests for their employees.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yamamoto Kento
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yamamoto Kento - Directors CDO @ COUNTERWORKS

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Daisuke Yamashita
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Daisuke Yamashita - CEO @ Next Innovation

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yoichi Aso
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kazuki Moribe
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kazuki Moribe is the CEO of Spider Initiative.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Seiya Koide
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kenji Niwa
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Musashi Suzuki
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Musashi Suzuki is a professional soccer player for Consadole Sapporo.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kato Yorihiko
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kato Yorihiko is a Founder and Director at Bitbank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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".
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ken Fuse
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Ken Fuse is a Representative Director at Letters Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Nishiki Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Yasumasa Manabe
Angel · Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Yasumasa Manabe

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Hideto Fujino
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Takahito Tsukagoshi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Takahito Tsukagoshi is a Executive Vice President at Takeuchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kitamura Yota
Angel · 1 investments in Japan EdTech startups

Kitamura Yota

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
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EdTech Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 78 deals from 124 investors.

124
investors
in Japan EdTech startups
78
deals
in Japan EdTech startups
$7.6M
median round
in Japan EdTech startups
2%
lead investors
lead at least one round
38%
Seed
most common funding stage

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