Top 50 Enterprise Software VC Funds & Investors in Japan (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $602k–$48M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $470k–$21M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | 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–$47M |
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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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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $372k–$17M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Medical | $457k–$45M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $268k–$41M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.3M–$60M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $482k–$38M |
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Coral Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $468k–$184M |
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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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Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $2M–$55M |
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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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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $665k–$30M |
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Eminence Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.9M–$200M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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2 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $456k–$50M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $800k–$34M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $250k–$30M |
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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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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $312k–$20M |
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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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Adways
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Media and Entertainment, Content | $944k–$30M |
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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 | $4M–$100M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$38M |
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Pegasus Tech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $120k–$91M |
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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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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $648k–$47M |
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care | $316k–$15M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.7M–$69M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$41M |
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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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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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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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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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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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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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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $1M–$3B |
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LINE Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, Thailand | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $839k–$170M |
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NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, CMS | $5.5M–$24M |
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YankeeTek Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan | Series B, Series A, Series C | IaaS, SaaS, Energy | $1M–$30M |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain | $450k–$120M |
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 831
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $602k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- WED — One Financial is an application that anyone can introduce card settlement immediately with one smartphone.
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 685
- Round size: Seed $470k–$16M; Series A $1.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $525k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
- Smart Craft —
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $556k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
- Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.
- Voxela, Inc. — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
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: 545
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$32M; Series B $2.4M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$10M
- 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.
- AIONA — AIONA uses AI to produce high-quality products and provides everyone with access to knowledge.
- Yoom — Yoom is a consulting company that offers system development services on AI, IoT, data solutions, and cloud integration.
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.
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: 99
- Round size: Seed $372k–$2.9M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
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, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $457k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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: 315
- Round size: Seed $268k–$9.9M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $616k–$9.1M
- 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, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 454
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $4.5M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$20M
- 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.
- Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 395
- Round size: Seed $482k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$38M
- 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.
- Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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Browse database — It's Free!Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $468k–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$41M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- Kiviaq —
- DeltaForesight — DeltaForesight is a business that creates B2B services and goods with a focus on stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.
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: 240
- Round size: Seed $462k–$5.7M; 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
- 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.
- Gravity Design — Gravity Design is a full-stack platform consolidating supply chains for home interior materials.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- 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.
- Pine Labs — Pine Labs offers a merchant platform that includes technology and financial solutions for merchants. These solutions are aimed at helping merchants in increasing their revenue and reducing cost, complexity, and risk.The company connects financial institutions and consumer brands to enable merchants to deliver value to their retail customers. Itpowers offline and online last-mile retail transactions, provides customer insights for targeted sales, and offers financial solutions. The company’s cloud-based platform powers 3,50,000+ POS terminals across 3700 cities and towns in India and Malaysia.Over 1,00,000 merchants across sectors - electronics, food and beverage, fashion, airlines, and more, use Pine Labs’ solutions. 15 major banks, 7 financial institutions, and 100+ brands are part of Pine Labs’ platform.
- Quintessent — Quintessent is developing optical connectivity solutions to scale computing and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).
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.
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–$9.4M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $2.7M–$30M
- 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.
Eminence Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: China, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$84M; Series A $4.4M–$200M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.2M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Cloud Map and Action — CloudMap is an AI technology innovation company dedicated to exploring and breaking through cutting-edge technologies in geographic information and spatial intelligent computing.
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: 396
- Round size: Seed $456k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
- Furnishka — Furnishka is a furniture industries that provides wide range of products for home decor items, sofa, coffee tables and dining tables.
- 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.
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:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 667
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $800k–$12M
- 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.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 692
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Series A $1.9M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $366k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Tokoshie — Building infrastructure that inspires everyone to create.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 388
- Round size: Seed $312k–$7.1M; Series A $1.8M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $368k–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
- Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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.
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: Software, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $944k–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
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: 554
- Round size: Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$53M; Series C $9M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $780M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- PlayFirst — PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends.PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® andHotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Series A $2M–$38M; Series B $3.4M–$37M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Eight Knot — Eight Knot is a developer of autonomous navigation systems intended for water mobility. They provide autonomous ship maneuvering technology using robotics, enabling customers with water-on-demand transportation using environment-friendly EV robotic boats.
- 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.
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, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 329
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Series B $4.7M–$91M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
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, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $648k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$19M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $316k–$6M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $438k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- JAOPS — JAOPS develops space mission operations software, tools, training, and services for spacecraft control and simulation.
- Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
- Teragen Energy — Teragen Energy develops an energy technology platform based on advanced regenerative solid oxide fuel cells that provide both power generation and energy storage in a single system. The company’s systems generate electricity from external fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen without combustion and can operate in reverse to store power as hydrogen.Teragen designs modular systems that can be scaled from megawatt-scale installations for data centers to deployments for microgrids, renewable projects, and utilities. Its technology is intended to help operators manage variable renewable output, ride through outages, and address daily capacity needs using one device. Teragen focuses on applications including AI and cloud data centers, manufacturing and cold storage facilities, remote communities, and electric grid infrastructure. The platform is positioned to replace separate diesel generators and battery systems by combining fuel-flexible generation and low-cost storage in a compact footprint.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Series A $2M–$35M; Series B $4.4M–$69M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $51M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- CADDi — CADDi analyzes and connects manufacturing data fragmented across departments, locations, and systems, turning it into an enterprise asset. It uses AI to transform how manufacturers make decisions and execute work.
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- kikitori — kikitori engages in the development and operation of applications and web systems in the fruit and vegetable distribution field.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 366
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$41M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
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–$2.8M; Series A $868k–$43M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 330
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $93M–$3B; Debt Financing $3.4M–$1.3B; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication provider that uses cloud computing to enhance sales and ease transactions of real estate brokerage.
- Crux AI — Crux AI is a company that provides integrated AI infrastructure.
- Grenergy Renovables — Entwicklung von Photovoltaik und Speicher Projekten und Speicher Projekten mit Grenergy. Willkommen bei Grenergy
LINE Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in games, internet advertising, and flexible investment fields.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$43M; Series B $5M–$170M; Venture - Series Unknown $839k–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $43M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Mellia — Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements.
- Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
- 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.
NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE offers real estate services.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, CMS
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series B $8.2M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sanu — SANU is a home subscription service company that guides customers on a first-come, first-served basis as the number of slots increases. They develop a hotel and residence platform that offers a monthly subscription and proposes a lifestyle with another house in nature.
- AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $1M–$20M; Series B $16M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- A123 Systems — Wanxiang A123 Systems Corp The company has a global patent for super nano lithium iron phosphate, which is the world's best technology for high safety, high power, and long life lithium iron phosphate batteries,
- 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.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $464k–$2.7M; Series A $1.4M–$120M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
- AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
- TASIMOVF — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
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