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Top 50 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Japan in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise software startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise software companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Japan in November 2024

Investor	Enterprise Software Japan investments
MiraclePlus	4
Nippon Venture Capital	3
Monex Ventures	2
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)	2
East Ventures	2
Eminence Ventures	2
DNX Ventures	2
SBI Investment	2
BEENEXT	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Delight Ventures	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
UNITED	2
Yusuke Sato	2
GMO VenturePartners	2
Spectrum Equity	1
Genuine Startups	1
DCM Ventures	1
Skyarch Networks	1
SBI Group	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
IREP	1
Incubate Fund	1
Etsuji Otsuka	1
Mizuho Capital	1
Bart Joseph Broadman	1
Jun Nishikawa	1
Comvest Partners	1
Real Tech Japan	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan	1
Pegasus Tech Ventures	1
Kodiak Venture Partners	1
Recruit Strategic Partners	1
Ceres	1
Adways	1
LINE Ventures	1
Drone Fund	1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	1
Kazuma Ieiri	1
YankeeTek Ventures	1
NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE	1
Mistletoe	1
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners	1
Goldman Sachs	1
Mirai Creation Fund	1
Spiral Ventures	1
Energy & Environment Investment	1
500 Startups Japan	1
Simplex	1

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MiraclePlus invests in and accelerates early-stage startups. MiraclePlus assists startups in developing products that are good enough to succeed in the market. MiraclePlus' acceleration program works with the founders to get each team in top shape so that they can present to thousands of investors on Demo Day.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
Excellent Vision — Excellent Vision is a spatial intelligence company focused to transforming video creation into a 4D world model, enabling AI big models to grasp, generate, and reason about 4D space.
Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Eminence Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

40seas — We empower importers, exporters - and everyone in between - with a highly reliable, digital alternative to legacy B2B payment and financing options.
HooRii Technology — HooRii Technology is a provider of commercial distribution software systems spawned by the structural Internet of Things concept. It specializes ini end-to-end, edge-to-edge, software, hardware, and other Thread solutions.
Yige Cloud Technology — Yige Cloud is a zero-trust enterprise network security solution provider.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Truely Travel eSIM — Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels. Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again. Available in 200+ destinations, we partnerwith the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.

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

Investment focus

Internet, 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.

Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.

Investment focus

Software, Service Industry, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, 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.

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.

Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.Spectrum seeks to invest in companies with defensible and sustainable business models. The investment firm was founded in 1994 by Brion B. Applegate and William P. Collatos and is based in San Francisco,California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Private Equity, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Netcraft — Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides Internet data mining, defences against fraud and phishing, web application security testing, and automated penetration testing. Clients include many of the world’s leading Internet infrastructure and financial companies, and in particular, Netcraft’s anti-phishing services arevery widely licensed, ultimately protecting hundreds of millions of people.
BenchMark Mineral Intelligence — World leading supply chain & energy transition intelligence. Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Graphite, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Rare Earths and Permanent Magnets.
Virtual Benefits Administrator — VBA delivers the flexibility, functionality and technology you need to administer multiple lines of business on a secure, cloud-based platform.

Genuine Startups is a seed-stage focused venture fund backed by ex-PIMCO Japan head and experienced startup investor/accelerator. The company's headquarters are in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
BASKET — BASKET is an internet-based home delivery cleaning service company.
StreetAcademy — StreetAcademy is Japan's learning market that matches people who want to teach and people who want to learn on the web.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

UJET — At UJET we are redefining customer experience with our cloud contact center platform.
Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.

Skyarch Networks offers a multi-service portfolio, including server managing, monitoring, DevOps, and IT consulting. The company focuses on the areas of Internet-of-Things, cloud security, networking, and more.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AlterBooth — AlterBooth develops software centered on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It began operation on March 19, 2015, with its headquarters in Fukuoka in Japan.

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
UBX Philippines — UBX Philippines is a fintech company passionate about creating opportunities and access for all by building solutions.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

A-Wave — A-Wave is a manufacturing company that develops and markets medical devices, pharmaceuticals, computer software, and hardware.
Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.

Leading Integrated Marketing Agency in Japan with its expertise in digitally-led way of thinking.

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Innova — Innova is a Tokyo-based SEO and content marketing agency.Innova has been providing content marketing solutions, helping companies better market their services or products to consumers by helping managing owned media websites and keeping publishing SEO-optimized content and articles. As of April, the company has 72 clients from notable Japanesecompanies such as Yahoo Japan, Rakuten, Sony, DeNA, Opt, and Septeni Holdings.
negocia — Realize marketing that works with tech
Bukalapak — Beli sampai bayar dapet gratis ongkir/cashback, game hadiah jutaan, dan Serbu Seru pake recehan. Makhluk sejagat raya aja pake aplikasi Bukalapak!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
Phi — Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users.

Etsuji Otsuka - Co-founder and CIO @ TRUIM Partners

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
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.
Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.

Bart Joseph Broadman

Investment focus

Robotics, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ascent Robotics — Ascent is a Tokyo-based AI and robotics company developing cutting-edge software with the goal of helping create a more autonomous future.

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.

Comvest Partners is a leading middle market private equity and credit investment firm with $12.5 billion of assets under management.

Investment focus

Telecommunications, Health Care, Internet
Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United States, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

ClearOne Advantage — If you are struggling with credit card debt, ClearOne Advantage has expertise and resources to help you achieve debt relief with a payment you can afford
Oak Dental Partners — Oak Dental Partners is a broadening dental service organization. It emphasizes the growth of pediatric, family dentistry, and orthodontic practices.
Apotheco Pharmacy Group — Apotheco Pharmacy is a dermatology focused pharmacy providing the highest quality of dermatological medications at low costs. Free delivery available!

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Singapore, Austria

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 is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Poetics — Poetics is an AI startup that develops communication related products concerning language and voice to provide business solutions.
Endophyte — Endophyte specializes in endophytic soil solutions, harnessing beneficial microorganisms to plant growth and agricultural productivity.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Indonesia, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Epicore Biosystems — Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is basedon over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.

Kodiak Venture Partners pursues a disciplined investment strategy that is focused on building seed and early stage technology companies into high-growth industry market leaders. Kodiak partners have deep expertise in building and investing in market leaders. The team invests in markets where they have had proven success over the years.Foundedin 1999, Kodiak manages three funds totaling $676M and targets companies in eastern North America. Kodiak forges deep relationships with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages and works with a hands-on approach to formulate business strategies, build management teams, and develop critical alliances and customer relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lumicell — Incomplete resections are leaving cancer behind. The Lumicell mission is to change the way cancer surgery is performed today.
Emergent Payments — Emergent Payments delivers optimized payment solutions in high growth markets. We help merchants and partners grow revenues and open new markets. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with development centers in North Carolina and Shanghai, as well as international offices in Luxembourg, India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Singapore,Malaysia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Japan.The company sold its Digital Commerce platform (Live Gamer Elements) to Autodesk in 2014, in order to focus on its core payments technology and business. It rebranded as Emergent Payments in early 2015 and invested in the payments platform, team and operations in high growth international markets.
Greenlight Biosciences — GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection andsupport the health of bees and other pollinators.

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.

Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/

Investment focus

Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.

LINE Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in games, internet advertising, and flexible investment fields.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, Indonesia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Mellia — Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements.
Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
Sunday — Founded in Thailand in 2017, Sunday is the first full-stack InsurTech group adopting data models and technology to offer multiple insurance products and services across the entire customer journey. The company provides auto insurance, health insurance, and travel insurance.Sunday reinvents the entire insurance offering and experience to ensurethat customers' needs are met anytime, anywhere.

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

YankeeTek Ventures founded in early 2000, is a venture capital fund for early-stage technology companies. YankeeTek helps entrepreneurs launch their start-ups by providing comprehensive resources, strategic advice, and an extensive network of business relationships to rapidly grow their ideas into strong, successful companies. Fund investorsinclude 3Com, Compaq, Nortel Networks, Novell and The Yankee Group. Several venture capital funds are also invested in YankeeTek, including Advanced Technology Ventures, Advent International, Bain Capital, Battery Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners, HarbourVest Partners, and TH Lee Putnam Ventures.

Investment focus

IaaS, Cloud Management, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

A123 Systems — Based on new, highly active nanoscale material initially developed at MIT, A123Systems' low impedance Nanophosphate electrode technology provides a competitive advantage over alternative high power technologies.A123's cell and electrode designs lower cost/watt and cost/watt-hour. They have higher voltage than other long-lifesystems, enabling lower pack cost. Their long life leads to reduced lifecycle and system costs resulting in greater overall price-performance .Competitors include
Egenera — Egenera's Xterity Cloud platform is the best alternative to Azure or AWS cloud. Egenera provides simple to use (IaaS) low cost cloud at a global scale with controllable and predictable costs and premium customer support experience. Get in touch to learn more!
Aegis Semiconductor — Aegis is a privately held company that builds solutions for embedded monitoring of advanced optical networks. The company's Active Thin Films are manufactured using proven high-volume processes with demonstrated high yield and superb uniformity. Aegis's solutions benefit from the reliability of solid-state, silicon-based design, extremescalability, and low-cost packaging architectures.

NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE offers real estate services.

Investment focus

CRM, Career Planning, Management Consulting
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
SAGOJO — SAGOJO is a planning and operation of the amazing traveler recruiting site "SAGOJO" and production, direction, and editing of accompanying content.
Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
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.
Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

Hakuhodo DY Media Partners is committed to designing media strategies that build value for media and produce more effective communication.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Advertising, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nyle — Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses.
BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
Stepdays — stepdays is a media management, Contents production, Consulting, wholesale, retail, and other related businesses.stepdays aim to contribute to the bottom-up of the entire industry.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.
Economic Opportunity Coalition — Economic Opportunity Coalition aimed at fostering inclusive economic growth through coordinated efforts between public and private sectors. Economic Opportunity Coalition Initiatives typically focus on creating opportunities for marginalized or underserved communities, promoting job creation, and entrepreneurship, and ensuring equitable access toresources and opportunities.

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.

Investment focus

Robotics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
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.

Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
BharatNXT — Make secure business payments with BharatNXT. Our platform offers services from Vendor payments to GST payments. Experience simple credit card payments for businesses. Get started today!
Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Internet of Things
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OOYOO — OOYOO Co., Ltd. is a DeepTech venture that combines international entrepreneurial spirit, and a 'Made In Japan' excellence, to bring the latest innovations in clean technology to society for a smarter, cleaner, and more mobile world.
Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.

500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.

Simplex accelerates business growth by providing trading and risk management solutions, consulting, custom development and operational services to more than 60 clients and 10,000 users in 10+ countries.Simplex Genesis, Their next-generation trading and risk management solution, accelerates time-to-market by providing an open, flexible andscalable system.Serving quants, traders and risk managers, Simplex has increased client revenue and profitability since 1998.They are accelerating Their growth in the US and European markets, expanding on Their presence at some of the largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies in Asia.Simplex is headquartered in Tokyo with offices in San Francisco and New York.

Investment focus

Apps, Payments, Software
Seed, Series A
Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shift — SHIFT is a tech company founded by tech guru masaru tange in 2005, providing software testing, security assessment and offshore development services with made in japan tailored quality.
Lynk — Lynk is a payment and card issuance solution platform that helps companies reduce processing fees and increase customer loyalty.

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