Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
Investor | Education Japan investments |
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Robert Huang | 3 |
Kotaro Chiba | 3 |
Kotaro Chiba | 3 |
Hidetoshi Takano | 3 |
Tatsuo Sakamoto | 2 |
Kiyoshi Ayabe | 2 |
Mamoru Taniya | 2 |
Shintaro Yamada | 2 |
Narita Shuzo | 2 |
Yuzuru Honda | 1 |
Mark Goines | 1 |
Kazuki Moribe | 1 |
Yuichi Tanaka | 1 |
Fumiaki Koizumi | 1 |
Shuuichi Wada | 1 |
Ayataro Nakagawa | 1 |
Makoto Takano | 1 |
Kenji Niwa | 1 |
Nishiki Takashi | 1 |
Daisuke Takanashi | 1 |
Hikaru Kashida | 1 |
Etsuji Otsuka | 1 |
Cheng Tao | 1 |
Kato Yorihiko | 1 |
Ryosuke Matsumoto | 1 |
Takato Hiroshi | 1 |
Kengo Suzuki | 1 |
Toru Shimada | 1 |
Ken Fuse | 1 |
Naoki Yamada | 1 |
Junshin Kawasaki | 1 |
Hiroaki Kitano | 1 |
Keisuke Honda | 1 |
Miko Matsumura | 1 |
Suzuki Yuto | 1 |
Seiya Koide | 1 |
Yasumasa Manabe | 1 |
Tetsuro Yoshimatsu | 1 |
Alex Zubillaga | 1 |
Jun Ogawa | 1 |
Naruhisa Nakagawa | 1 |
Kazuhito Shima | 1 |
Kenji Takada | 1 |
Musashi Suzuki | 1 |
Gaku Nakamura | 1 |
Masao Ito | 1 |
Daisuke Kitami | 1 |
Noguchi Keito | 1 |
Sagehashi Yuki | 1 |
Ryuji Terada | 1 |
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
- Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Series A
- Japan
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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Drones, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
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.
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
- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- 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.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
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.
Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.
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Investment focus
- Content, Education, E-Learning
- Funding Round
- Japan
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Content, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- 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.
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
- Internet, Finance, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- 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.
Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.
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Investment focus
- Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Japan
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.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
- Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
- Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
Kazuki Moribe is the CEO of Spider Initiative.
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Investment focus
- Video, Training, Web Design
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
Yuichi Tanaka - CDO @ Visional
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Investment focus
- E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Osiro — Osiro is a community management firm.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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Investment focus
- Reservations, Content, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong, United States
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.
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
- Content, Sports, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, Philippines
Founder CEO at Firstcard. Entrepreneur and Investor.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
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.
Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Content, Education, Social Media
- Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Content, Finance
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.
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Investment focus
- Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
- Seed
- Japan
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.
Etsuji Otsuka - Co-founder and CIO @ TRUIM Partners
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Training
- Seed
- Japan
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.
Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.
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Investment focus
- Telecommunications, Content, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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.
Kato Yorihiko is a Founder and Director at Bitbank.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Agriculture
- Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
- Art, Reservations, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
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.
Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Legal, Beauty
- Funding Round, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- JAPAN HEALTHCARE — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
- Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
- Legal Technology Japan — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.
Kengo Suzuki is the Co-Founder of Glocalink Singapore. Kengo attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Service Industry
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
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
- Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Ken Fuse is a Representative Director at Letters Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
- Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Naoki Yamada
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
Junshin Kawasaki - Director @ LEVIAS
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, Infrastructure
- Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Japan, United States
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.
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner at gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) a blockchain focused venture capital firm
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- 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.
Suzuki Yuto
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Content
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
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
- E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Yasumasa Manabe
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Drones, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
Tetsuro Yoshimatsu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of istyle.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Sales, Biofuel
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
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
- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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.
- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- 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!
Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
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.
Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
- Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software that is built to simplify and accelerate carbon reduction, lighting the path toward a carbon-free future.
- Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
- Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.
Kazuhito Shima is a IsLand LLC Representative.
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Investment focus
- Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Kenji Takada - CEO @ Konomichi
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Series A
- Japan
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.
Musashi Suzuki is a professional soccer player for Consadole Sapporo.
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Investment focus
- Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob
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Investment focus
- Sports, Education, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Japan
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.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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Investment focus
- Content, Information Technology, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
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.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Daisuke Kitami is the Representative of Wavy.
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- Education, Employment, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
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- LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel
- Japan, United States
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- 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.
Sagehashi Yuki
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- Content, FinTech, Finance
- Angel, Seed
- Japan
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- 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 Accounting Office — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
Ryuji Terada is the Partner at Persol Innovation Fund. Ryuji Terada attended Shimonoseki City University.
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Investment focus
- Education, Consulting, Human Resources
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
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- 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.
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