Top 50 Enterprise Software VC Funds & Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$68M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$48M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $556k–$19M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $661k–$57M |
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MiraclePlus
VC Fund
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4 | China, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.9M–$60M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.4M–$45M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $275k–$41M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $404k–$11M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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2 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $453k–$50M |
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Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, Blockchain | $2M–$55M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$51M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $665k–$49M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $263k–$30M |
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Medley
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, Health Care, Health Diagnostics | $383k–$383k |
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, Task Management | $91k–$30M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $318k–$17M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$71M |
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MIRAI SOUZOU
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Manufacturing, Robotics, Software | $300k–$11M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $356k–$48M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $494k–$42M |
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Pegasus Tech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $120k–$58M |
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Shinhan-GB Futureflow Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | CAD, Pet, Sports | $624k–$6.3M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, Software, Information Technology | $645k–$43M |
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Adways
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Content, Internet, Software | $944k–$39M |
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Eminence Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.9M–$200M |
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DCM Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $4.2M–$100M |
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Skyarch Networks
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | SaaS, Big Data, Software | |
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $100k–$33M |
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Mitsubishi Estate
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Series B, Series A | Real Estate, Information Technology, Internet | $1.3M–$79M |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology | $3.4M–$3B |
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Fast Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer | $371k–$7.8M |
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series C, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $13M–$145M |
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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SBI Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $2.8M–$62M |
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transcosmos Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Brazil, Malaysia | Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Advertising, Logistics | |
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Mirai Creation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Robotics, Information Technology, Software | |
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SunBridge Global Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Robotics | $350k–$14M |
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Drone Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Drones, Robotics, Aerospace | $1.7M–$213M |
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Dentsu Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality | $1.9M–$300M |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Energy, Internet of Things, Software | $2M–$553M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Laguna Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $741k–$35M |
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Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Media and Entertainment, Content, Advertising | |
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Full Speed
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $661k–$85M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | |
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Robotics | $5M–$369M |
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IREP
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia | Series A, Corporate Round | Internet, Advertising, Software | |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 662
- 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
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 784
- Round size: Series A $2M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $556k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 530
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$41M; Series B $2.4M–$57M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$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.
- 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.
- Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: China, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TestSprite — AI powered fully automated end-to-end testing solutions to help enterprises launch their products faster.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 451
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$29M; Series B $4.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AOI Biosciences — AOI Biosciences is a biotechnology company that creates testing and drug discovery businesses.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 309
- Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $731k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing platform for site-specific insertion of therapeutic genes.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 391
- Round size: Seed $453k–$5M; Series A $2M–$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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $6M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
- Quintessent — Quintessent is developing optical connectivity solutions to scale computing and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).
- One97 Communications — One97 delivers mobile content and commerce services to millions of mobile consumers through India’s most widely deployed telecom applications cloud platform. It has more than 4,500 employees with its headquarters in New Delhi and regional offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata with global presence in Africa, Europe, Middle East,and Southeast Asia. Marquee investors like Alibaba Group, Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Mediatek, Sapphire Venture, and Silicon Valley Bank back it.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 646
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$51M; 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.
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $665k–$43M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $3M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
- Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 642
- Round size: Seed $263k–$6.2M; Series A $2M–$30M
- 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.
MEDLEY, the online encyclopedia disease that doctors make along with the people of cooperation doctor hundreds of people, we have put together in an easy-to-understand gently variety of information about the disease.Connect the people of doctors and medical institutions that provide people and their families and medical services to receivemedical care, we aim to become as to realize the "convincing medical" information infrastructure must-have in society .
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- Industry: Apps, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $383k–$383k
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HITOTSU — HITOTSU is a software development company that provides medical device management systems for all hospitals and clinics.
- Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.
- Equitas Medical Co. — Equitas Medical provides management support for clinics, including operational improvement, strategic planning, recruitment, digital transformation, and back-office administration. It supports business succession for clinic owners by providing transition options intended to maintain patient and staff continuity. The company also promotes healthcaredigital transformation through AI, cloud services, remote-care tools, hospital real-world data use, and medical department digitalization. Its services are intended for healthcare professionals, clinic owners, and healthcare organizations.
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Task Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $275k–$4.3M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $91k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
- GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
- 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 328
- 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
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- 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.
MIRAI SOUZOU operates as a venture capital firm that invests in institutional lookup and supporting projects. The Company invests in institutional research and development supporting projects, medicine, agriculture, ocean field, and other industries. Innovations and Future Creation conducts businesses in Japan.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $887k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Singular Machines — Singular Machines is an engineering automation company that provides solutions to engineering issues.
- Equitas Medical Co. — Equitas Medical provides management support for clinics, including operational improvement, strategic planning, recruitment, digital transformation, and back-office administration. It supports business succession for clinic owners by providing transition options intended to maintain patient and staff continuity. The company also promotes healthcaredigital transformation through AI, cloud services, remote-care tools, hospital real-world data use, and medical department digitalization. Its services are intended for healthcare professionals, clinic owners, and healthcare organizations.
- Trash Technologies — Trash Technologies is an AI-powered sustainability company focusing on sourcing recycled materials with cost-offsetting benefits.
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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- 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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 389
- Round size: Seed $494k–$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
- Hibot — Hibot offers robotic platforms, and related hardware and software solutions. The company offers robots for hazardous operations as well as for maintenance and inspection of infrastructure, search, and rescue missions. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 303
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ABIVIN — Operate your business more efficiently, manage fleets in real-time, save up to 30% logistics costs with Abivin vRoute - Transportation Management System.
- LINK-US — LINK-US focuses on the contract sales of various devices applying ultrasonic combined vibration and powerful ultrasonic technology. LINK-US designs and manufactures bonding equipment for a wide range of similar and dissimilar metal materials related to room temperature bonding technology using ultrasonic compound vibration and various equipmentthat employs these technologies.
- AZUL Energy — AZUL Energy is a next-generation energy device that improves air battery performance, develops air battery-related products, and proposes eco-friendly and comfortable new lifestyles. They discovered that a catalyst electrode containing one of these pigments performed better than platinum carbon or existing catalyst electrode materials.
Shinhan-GB Futureflow Investment is an investment firm.
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- Industry: CAD, Pet, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $624k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- be-FULL — be-FULL specializes in AI-driven management support tools designed to enhance organizational performance. Their flagship product assists in meetings and one-on-one sessions by analyzing audio data to recommend effective actions and provide feedback for skill development. It aims to create workplaces where individual strengths contribute tocollective success by integrating coaching principles with technology.
- Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
- Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.4M; Series A $868k–$43M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WAKA — WAKA is a studio that produces metaverse games and specializes in contract development for domestic businesses.
- Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
- Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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/
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2M–$39M; Series A $1M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $944k–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Rentio — Rentio is a site that can be used anytime without buying 1,000 kinds of cameras and the latest home appliances.
- 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.
Eminence Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$84M; Series A $4.4M–$200M; Series B $10M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.2M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- TEA AI — TEA AI develops consumer AI products that focus on health support and human–computer companionship. The company builds applications that use AI to track meals, analyze nutrition, and provide conversational feedback. Its products emphasize everyday eating patterns, gentle accountability, and personalized suggestions instead of rigid diet control.TEA AI targets health-conscious consumers who want an engaging calorie companion rather than a traditional tracker.
- VAST — VAST is an artificial intelligence business that develops and manufactures general-purpose 3D big models. Its goal is to develop a popular 3D content production tool, a 3D user-generated content platform, and utilize 3D space to enhance user experience.
- Yongquan Innovation — Yongquan Innovation is a technological firm that specializes in sophisticated desktop CNC machinery.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 529
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$53M; Series C $9M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $780M in 2019
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- Athos — Athos uses EMG real-time biofeedback to help you go from guessing to knowing if you are performing at your best. #BuildBetterAthletes
- 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.
- Keep Holdings — Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands. The company's products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings' suite of services focuses on commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web canbring brands and consumers together in new productive ways.
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.
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- Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019
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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A comprehensive real estate developer, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. boasts the leading position in the Japanese market, operating a spectrum of businesses in diverse fields related to real estate, including an office building business centered on the Marunouchi district in central Tokyo, a retail property business, a residential business, and hotelbusiness. The Company's area of operations is not confined to Japan; it includes the United States and the United Kingdom and extends to such Asian countries as China and Singapore.The strength of the Mitsubishi Estate Group lies in its comprehensive business structure, which encompasses Group members that seamlessly cover businesses ranging from development to leasing and property management. Looking at the real estate industry in countries overseas, in most places, the industry is divided into two main groups: developers and property managers. In contrast, the Mitsubishi Estate Group operates under a policy of maintaining ownership of the majority of the properties that it has developed. This enables the Group to pursue urban development with an eye to the future-a future of not only a decade or 50 years but as much as a hundred years from now.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$79M; Series B $4.1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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- iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
- T2 — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
- Free Standard — Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $93M–$3B; Debt Financing $3.4M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
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- Squadron Energy — Squadron Energy is an Australian resources company focused on projects in natural resources and renewable energy.
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
- AMPIN Energy Transition — AMPIN Energy Transition (Formerly Amp Energy India) is a leading renewable energy company driving India's green future with solar, wind, and storage solutions.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $371k–$7.8M; Series A $1.6M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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- Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
- Quota Lab — Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.
- Remake Digital — They are a group of creatives, marketers, and engineers building CROLO, a creative AI. CROLO totally automates banner ad designs so advertisers can reduce design time/cost while maximizing ad performance through data driven design.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 948
- Round size: Series B $13M–$140M; Series C $20M–$145M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2026
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- Riverbed Technology — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
- BPL Medical Technologies — BPL, the best medical equipment manufacturing company in India is a pioneer in Innovative Medical Technologies and provides complete healthcare solutions.
- ClinChoice — Fountain Medical Development Ltd., a contract research organization, provides ICH GCP compliant clinical research services for the multinational clients in China and the United States. It offers consulting, project management, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, central laboratory services, site management, biometrics, and clinical trialdesigns, as well as AE/SAE collection, review, assessment and reporting services, data and safety monitoring board handling, and signal detection services. The company is based in Beijing, China.
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
- Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
- Blue Whale Energy — Blue Whale Energy connects and optimises distributed batteries across Singapore, helping businesses and solar developers unlock new revenue streams while supporting a cleaner, more reliable grid.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$62M; Series B $7M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
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- Ajaib — Mulai investasi online dengan Ajaib. Platform investasi terpercaya yang aman, sudah berizin dan diawasi OJK & BAPPEBTI. Download aplikasinya & daftar sekarang!
- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- GeoDreams — GeoDreams is a clean energy and geothermal technology company focused on next-generation closed-loop geothermal power generation.
Transcosmos is a Japan-based company principally engaged in outsourcing. It mainly provides call center, business process outsourcing, and digital marketing services, including inbound and outbound, fulfillment, support desk, web integration, marketing research, and more. In 2014, it expanded its services to specifically cater to the eCommerceindustry, providing end-to-end e-commerce solutions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Brazil, Malaysia
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- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Wodca — Wodca is the developer of a Token Wallet service that can distribute virtual currency in real time.
- GDX — No.1 SaaS and Sustainable Brand EC Enabler and Omni Channel Solution in Southeast Asia and India Chat GPT and AI Robot take over EC operation from manpower. From Silicon Valley US, Bangalore India and Tokyo Japan to the worldThe growth of the EC market is hindered by the limited capacity and capability of human resources to build and operate ECbusinesses.GDX solves the problem of limited human resource capacity and capability with high-level planning and project management capabilities using AI robots and stable operations at low cost using ChatGPT.GDX will contribute to the economic growth of Southeast Asia and India by sustainably expanding the EC market using cutting-edge IT technology.
- Soft Space — From its inception in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012, Soft Space has grown to become the leading mobile Point of Sales (mPOS) provider in the South East Asia region, present in 13 banks across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.The Soft Space centralised Mobile Point-‐of-‐Salespayment platform aims to revolutionise the payment industry by enabling anyone to accept card based payments. It is certified EMV Level 2, the first in Asia to achieve this, and is also certified by MasterCard and Visa; a testament to its security, credibility and is recognised globally.Soft Space has won multiple awards including the Red Herring Top 100 Asia 2014, Merit Winner of the WITSA’s Global ICT Excellence Awards, APICTA’s Best Financial Application Award 2013, APICTA’s Best Start Up 2013, and AICTA’s award for the Best Start Up in the ASEAN region.
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.
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- Industry: Robotics, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Ubiden — Ubiden provides Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things mobile network services. The company develops applications for electric vehicle charging services.
- SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
- 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.
The SunBridge Group is the premier partner for leading enterprise IT companies to enter the Japan market. Founded by Allen Miner, the founder of Oracle Japan, SunBridge has successfully partnered with Salesforce.com, Concur, SilkRoad and many others to build their Japan operations. SunBridge invests directly into startups and through its affiliatesSunBridge Global Ventures (seed investor/accelerator in Japan), and SunBridge Partners (early-stage VC in US). They support promising entrepreneurs who challenge to develop business globally in IT by providing them seed capital and vital know-how which they cultivated in the investment experiences of the past ten years. SunBridge Global Ventures is a Global Seed Accelerator established in January 2012 as part of the SunBridge Group headquartered in Tokyo.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $350k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WHILL — WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications. WHILL is making transportation enjoyable and smart for everybody. It aims to change the perception of mobility devices such as wheelchairs and scooters through advanced technology and smart design.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Carlos,California.
- Cofame — Before you bring something to the table.Cofame is your companion to enable you to manage your contacts and meeting history, and improve your business process.New style of contact exchange: Cofame is the next generation of exchanging business card and contacts. You no longer need to bring your paper business cards. If they do not haveCofame? no worries, you can send a part of contact information over Text and Email. Unlike your current paper business card, with Cofame, you can exchange yours with number of people at a same time. Meeting management: Cofame also enables you to manage meetings, and replicate those meetings on your smartphone. When, who, and where you met these people, who's sitting where, and what you discussed. You never lose your memory.
- VIVID Technologies — Vivid transforms traditional audio-only IVR, (that annoying robot voice you hear every time you call "customer service"). They have created an interactive visual experience, where all the relevant information is displayed in an intuitive way, rather than the painstaking audio IVR. Vivid presents the information in a clutter-free,simplified and more consumable manner, on your smartphones and tablets, which in turn leads to a significant reduction in traffic and dramatic efficiency gains. It also simultaneously increases the ease and effectiveness of communication between individuals and businesses' customer support department, while also cutting costs.Vivid was founded in October 2013 and is headquartered in England, United Kingdom.
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.
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- Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$18M; Series A $1.7M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
- FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Dentsu. It specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments. It prefers to invest in the marketing and communication business sectors in the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$56M; Series B $11M–$300M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- CULTA — CULTA uses technology to increase the efficiency and speed of breeding and improve productivity and profitability in agriculture.
- Astrocade — The ultimate Social Gaming Universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. No coding or downloads required.
- Yoyogi Animation Academy — Yoyogi Animation Academy is a Japanese vocational‑style education company that operates Yoyogi Animation Academy, one of Japan’s largest and oldest specialized schools for animation, manga, voice acting, and game design.The academy offers practical, industry‑oriented programs in fields such as animator training, background art, illustration, manga,voice‑acting (seiyuu), and digital content creation, mainly at campuses in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Energy, Internet of Things, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Series A $2M–$105M; Series B $3.7M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
- Hacobell — Hacobell is a logistics company that offers services in freight servicing, dispatch, and delivery.
- Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.
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- 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.
Laguna Investment is a venture capital firm focused on professional entrepreneurial investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $741k–$5.4M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
- Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
- Markoville — Markoville is an entertainment content company that develops animation, games, comics, and character-based intellectual property (IP) using a media-mix strategy. It focuses on creating fun, family-friendly characters and storytelling content across multiple platforms.
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners is committed to designing media strategies that build value for media and produce more effective communication.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
Full Speed Inc. provides internet marketing services such as keyword selection, bid price adjusting, copywriting, and more.The company operates under many segments. The Internet Advertising Agency segment primarily provides listing advertising and search engine marketing (SEM) solutions. Its Ad Network segment provides advertising networkservices which integrate several website advertising spots to delivery advertisements. Its Information Media segment is engaged in the planning and creation of various information sites as well as in providing development and operational services for e-commerce sites. It also offers website and banner creation services under its Creative segment.Full Speed was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Japan.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- YRGLM — YRGLM Inc. provides marketing platform. The Company offers advertising platform "AD EBiS", automated advertising report creation tool "AdRepo", commercial distribution platform "EC-CUBE", and more. YRGLM serves clients in Asia and America.
- LOCKON — LOCKON is a software company.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $661k–$17M; Series A $2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M 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.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
- Goals — Goals specializes in development, sales and operational support for cloud services for food service companies.
- Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
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.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Series A $6M–$340M; Series B $5M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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.
Leading Integrated Marketing Agency in Japan with its expertise in digitally-led way of thinking.
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- Industry: Internet, Advertising, Software
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
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- 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!
- Spes — Spes provides all-in-one inventory and sales management cloud software.
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