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Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
13 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$31M
ANRI
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $275k–$34M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $457k–$28M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$20M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$52M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $275k–$5M
UntroD Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, Singapore, Austria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $316k–$15M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $482k–$17M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $356k–$48M
PE&HR
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $178k–$31M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $712k–$85M
STRIVE
VC Fund
5 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $740k–$47M
W ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $382k–$37M
Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Mobile $793k–$50M
DeNA
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Education, E-Commerce, Content $753k–$47M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $900k–$27M
QB Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology $585k–$14M
BEENEXT
VC Fund
4 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $453k–$50M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $574k–$42M
Obunsha Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Philippines Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Education, Information Technology, Content $357k–$5.3M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$53M
F Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
K4 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed Energy, Renewable Energy, Retail $167k–$553M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$68M
Mint
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing $326k–$16M
Leave a Nest
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Malaysia Seed, Corporate Round, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $36k–$14M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$71M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $480k–$11M
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Malaysia, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence $518k–$28M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Myanmar Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology $96k–$16M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Education $709k–$44M
HAKOBUNE
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Sales, Video, Gaming $289k–$7.1M
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Austria Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics $316k–$21M
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
One Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, Finland Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Oita Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical $1M–$340M
REAPRA
VC Fund
2 Japan, Thailand, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Human Resources, SaaS, Internet $43k–$4.2M
Vector
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round Software, Apps, Internet $179k–$15M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, FinTech $318k–$17M
Primal Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Internet $282k–$17M
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series B, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $881k–$12M
DCM Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Internet, E-Commerce $4.3M–$100M
Deep30
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software $136k–$11M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Task Management $310k–$43M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.4M–$50M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $274k–$24M
VU Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Colombia Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1.4M–$64M
en-Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Corporate Round Task Management, Education, Recruiting $1.6M–$113M
K&P Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed Content, CRM, Finance
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in Japan Education startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 632
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Education startups

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 306
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $731k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HANAMII — HANAMII is a creative and marketing company that offers digital marketing, branding, business support services, and social media marketing.
  • Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Education startups

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
  • 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.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Education startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 362
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$10M; Series A $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Education startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 641
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$52M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Education startups

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Education startups, 14 in the past 12 months

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $365k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
  • PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Education startups, 14 in the past 12 months

UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$6M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $927k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
  • Teragen Energy — Teragen Energy develops an energy technology platform based on advanced regenerative solid oxide fuel cells that provide both power generation and energy storage in a single system. The company’s systems generate electricity from external fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen without combustion and can operate in reverse to store power as hydrogen.Teragen designs modular systems that can be scaled from megawatt-scale installations for data centers to deployments for microgrids, renewable projects, and utilities. Its technology is intended to help operators manage variable renewable output, ride through outages, and address daily capacity needs using one device. Teragen focuses on applications including AI and cloud data centers, manufacturing and cold storage facilities, remote communities, and electric grid infrastructure. The platform is positioned to replace separate diesel generators and battery systems by combining fuel-flexible generation and low-cost storage in a compact footprint.
  • IGrid Solutions — IGrid Solutions will promote “eDCM” to optimize power energy demand.
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$12M; Series B $2.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • FullDepth — FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers towitness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers to witness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • Smart Craft
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $178k–$1.4M; Series A $585k–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
  • Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
  • Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that publishes interactive games and films. The services provided by the company include the production and distribution of interactive piercing games and story-based movies, allowing creators and development teams to present their projects on a global platform and provide players with an immersive andseamless gaming experience.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 526
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$52M; Series B $2.4M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $712k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$43M; Series B $3.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$14M; Series A $1.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Education startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $793k–$14M; Series A $1.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $99M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
  • Trash Technologies — Trash Technologies is an AI-powered sustainability company focusing on sourcing recycled materials with cost-offsetting benefits.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Education startups

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $753k–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Between — Between is a private space where you can share each moment only with that special someone. Create, share, and remember all your moments with each other. Get started now!
  • ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
  • Shizuku AI — Shizuku is an open-source Android app that enables other apps to access elevated system APIs without requiring full root access on your device. It achieves this by running a background service launched via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or wireless debugging on Android 11+, granting limited privileged permissions safely.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Education startups

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$18M; Series B $3.1M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $326M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
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QB Capital
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Education startups

QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $633k–$2.9M; Series A $585k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $732k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Equmenopolis — We dispatch conversational AI agents to schools and workplaces to improve creativity and productivity.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Surv Biopharma — Surv Biopharma develops a drug discovery platform that facilitates research and development of veterinary drugs and pharmaceutical products.
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Japan Education startups

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 390
  • Round size: Seed $453k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.
  • Kita Technologies — Kita Technologies uses computer vision and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured underwriting data.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $574k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$31M; Series B $2.8M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
  • Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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Obunsha Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Obunsha Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $839k–$881k; Series A $5.2M–$5.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $357k–$560k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.1M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
  • Robot Start — RobotStart is a company specializing in robot related business with the main target of communication robot. The company was established in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 776
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
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K4 Ventures
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

K4 Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Kansai Electric Power based in Osaka, Japan. The firm prefers to invest in seed, early, middle, and later-stage companies. The firm focuses on the storage battery, mobility, artificial intelligence, internet of things, big data, robotics, and new technology sectors.K4 Ventures was established inSeptember 1998.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Retail
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $167k–$37M; Series B $7.8M–$553M; Venture - Series Unknown $268k–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • T2 — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
  • Ms.Engineer — Ms.Engineer is an education platform that helps to study coding and get placed in companies for women.
  • Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 656
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$16M; Series A $1.4M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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Leave a Nest
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $276k–$3.7M; Series B $3.6M–$4.7M; Corporate Round $36k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MUU — Welcome to Muu!! We develop animal-free dairy products that taste just like dairy from cows.
  • Tenchijin — Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data.
  • Terra Labo — Terra Labo conducts research and development on long-range unmanned aerial vehicles.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$71M; Series B $5.5M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $549k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $672k–$21M; Series A $1.3M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $518k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Thinkfree — Deploy a self-hosted productivity suite inside your own infrastructure. Thinkfree offers on-premise online office, private cloud storage, and LLM-integrated document workflows for enterprise and SaaS platforms.
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Miraidoa
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$5.3M; Series A $1.2M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $96k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.5M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$5.7M; Series A $2.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
  • Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
  • Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
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HAKOBUNE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

HAKOBUNE is an independent venture capital business that invests in outliers and misfits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sales, Video, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • CULTA — CULTA uses technology to increase the efficiency and speed of breeding and improve productivity and profitability in agriculture.
  • Japan GX Group — Shibuya Blend Green Energy platform analyzes company processes and resources, recommends and plans improvement initiatives, and addresses corporate ESG challenges, assisting companies in balancing business and environmental protection.
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Education startups

Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $927k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
  • Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec provides labor-saving solutions that promote productivity improvement and reduce the burden on workers at construction sites. The company contributes to the evolution and development of the construction industry. The objective of Ken Robotec is to create a joyful construction site where robots and humans may collaborate.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
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One Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • Mirror Fit — MIRROR FIT provides online fitness services. MIRROR FIT features include AI-assisted high-level form checks, game-like exercises, communication with friends, and positive support. They have programmes for novices and advanced users. It includes content such as live lessons from popular trainers, personal training, and over 300 different types ofon-demand classes.
  • Crisp — CRISP SALAD WORKS offers a focused menu of signature salads and grains made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods on-site.
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Oita Venture Capital
VC Fund · Oita, Oita, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Oita Venture Capital Co. Ltd. is the investment arm of Oita Bank Ltd. It is a venture capital and private equity firm which specializes in growth capital, buyouts, and turnaround investments. It primarily invests in companies in the Oita region. Oita Venture Capital Co. Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is based in Oita, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$16M; Series A $1M–$340M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $236M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • Surv Biopharma — Surv Biopharma develops a drug discovery platform that facilitates research and development of veterinary drugs and pharmaceutical products.
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REAPRA
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Through Research and Practice, we contribute to the betterment of society,by creating industries. We are a venture builder and investment group based in Singapore with a strategic focus on developing sustainable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $43k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KarunStrategy — KarunStrategy assists in financial modelling, market research, competitive analysis, and a growth marketing plan. They are consistent with all available digital tools and channels that can enhance business. They promote growth by spotting opportunities, formulating a plan, following it out, and monitoring its effectiveness.
  • ITecMarin — ITecMarin is involved in the development of the shipping industry through the flexible fusion of people and technology. They offer new recruitment methods, knowledge digitization, issue analysis, and proposals for improvement measures, enabling the shipping industry to improve its turnover rate.
  • impress.ai — Launched in 2017, impress.ai is a no-code, self-service platform that is highly focused on simplifying and accelerating various parts of the recruitment workflow. AI chatbots are utilised to create a seamless interview experience for candidates, answering queries with a 96 percent accuracy rate while simultaneously providing assessments andassigning an overall metric value to the candidate. Based on industrial organisation (I/O) psychology, the AI algorithm can be localised to account for different hiring regulations, language, practices and cultural sensitivities to help enterprises stay agile in the dynamic world of recruitment.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $541k–$15M; Corporate Round $268k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $179k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$5.7M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Primal Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $282k–$6.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $415k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.6M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $881k–$1.5M; Series B $4.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • JIZAIE — JIZAIE is an artificial intelligence firm that wants to combine VR, robots, and wearable computing to create solution.
  • PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
  • Global Trust Networks — GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost.
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DCM Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 517
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$53M; Series C $8.9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $780M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
  • Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
  • Zenverge — Zenverge makes homes smarter and life easier. Learn about the latest in robotic cleaning technology, intelligent temperature control, immersive audio experiences, smart lighting, and advanced home security solutions.
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Deep30
VC Fund · Kuramae, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $136k–$7M; Series B $5.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
  • Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
  • Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Task Management
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $310k–$2.8M; Series A $1.1M–$43M; Venture - Series Unknown $710k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$50M; Series B $3.3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Space BD — Space BD aims to become a one-stop shop to respond to all issues related to industrialization of space, and alleviate the work of businesses that are developing new technologies.
  • KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $447k–$5.7M; Debt Financing $274k–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $971k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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VU Venture Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $5M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Natilus — We are creating a new generation of hyper-efficient blended wing body aircraft designed to make commercial aviation more sustainable and efficient, ensuring a healthier planet for future generations.
  • ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
  • HEARTio — Heart I/O is a digital diagnostic startup helping emergency providers identify heart abnormalities in Pittsburgh, PA.
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en-Japan
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

En-Japan provides solutions for the improvement of employees and organizations. The company works within the recruitment field and manages six recruiting websites and a briefing site for management and HR professionals. En-Japan was founded in January 2000 and is based in Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Education, Recruiting
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$113M; Corporate Round $1.6M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ONLY STORY — ONLY STORY is a manager matching platform.
  • Linc — Linc Corporation Provide opportunities and joy to work, to support foreign researchers from abroad and career through career and learn in Japan. Become a bridge between foreign talent and Japan and aim for a society with more diversity and inclusivity by innovating in the declining birthrate society and employment structure. Course (Linc) Study inJapan will be the first e-learning service for foreign students specializing in online in Japan. Students cultivate practical skills by organizing knowledge through site viewing lecture videos, question and answer, exercises and exercises, live commentaries. In addition to "study", they also offer consulting including everyday advice and university choice consulting, aiming to provide students with advanced support of 24 hours x 360 degrees.
  • Baseconnect — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.
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K&P Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Education startups

K&P Partners is an independent venture capital firm investing in digital technology and media companies. Kamio Hideaki and Shinya Matsumura co-founded the Tokyo, Tokyo-based firm in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, CRM, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Manabi-aid — Manabi-aid is an internet based company.The aim of the learning aid master is really simple and clear.This is a challenge to "improve the student's academic ability".Not to mention the limitations of group lessons. This is because the polarization of so-called "children who can" and "children who do not" isprogressing.
  • Robot Start — RobotStart is a company specializing in robot related business with the main target of communication robot. The company was established in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
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Education VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 379 deals from 464 investors.

464
investors
in Japan Education startups
379
deals
in Japan Education startups
$1.5M
median round
in Japan Education startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Venture - Series Unknown
most common funding stage

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