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Top 50 Fashion VC Funds & Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Fashion startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Fashion startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
JAFCO
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$184M
Japan Post Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Turkey Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing $1.3M–$283M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$184M
East Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $473k–$35M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$198M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$269M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
4 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Software, Marketing $771k–$30M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, France Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Task Management $2.8M–$71M
D4V
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $876k–$89M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
3 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $200k–$77M
POLA Orbis Holdings
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps $868k–$132M
Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Taiwan Seed, Series A Video, Gaming, Content $810k–$142M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
PE&HR
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $474k–$31M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.3M–$142M
AG Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $330k–$75M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $102k–$59M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland Seed, Series A Information Technology, Apps, Internet $804k–$44M
Venture United
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Apps $39k–$30M
Partners Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, E-Commerce $788k–$12M
Suzuyo
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $747k–$43M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $730k–$57M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $691k–$29M
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Content $613k–$52M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.5M–$100M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $800k–$142M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$57M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Medical, Health Care $413k–$41M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $565k–$71M
Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, United States Seed, Corporate Round Media and Entertainment, Content, Gaming $1.5M–$255M
ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $4M–$269M
Gree
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Gaming, Internet $1.2M–$354M
GMO Internet
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Corporate Round, Series A, Seed Finance, SNS, FinTech $21M–$255M
Yosemite
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Agriculture, Manufacturing, Legal $367k–$7.7M
Missuestin Dormitory
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
TEV Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, Australia, United States Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $549k–$20M
Apricot Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Internet, Fashion $450k–$14M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $740k–$184M
Harizuri
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Fashion, Nutrition $4.4M–$7.7M
Partech
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Karatage
VC Fund
1 United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
FIREBUG
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Music, B2C, Apps
Toppan Printing
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Corporate Round, Series B Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
United
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Android, Fashion, Internet
Chukyo TV
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Content, Audio, Travel
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, E-Commerce
S5 Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Marketing, CRM, Fashion
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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Japan Post Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$128M; Series B $6.5M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
  • SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 584
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 522
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
  • 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.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 576
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
  • 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.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $771k–$14M; Series A $1.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • 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.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 7 in the past 12 months

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $876k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Free Standard — Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$8.5M; Series A $1.4M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon — Pickupon is a SaaS product that automatically records and inputs calls.
  • Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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POLA Orbis Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

POLA Orbis Holdings develops, manufactures, and sells cosmetics and related products in Japan and internationally. The company was founded in 2006 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.7M; Series A $868k–$12M; Series B $4.4M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
  • NEXT NEW WORLD — NEXT NEW WORLD develops and manufactures natural products with low impact on the environment. It uses sustainable Japanese silk to manufacture apparel and cosmetic products.
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Gumi Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$11M; Series A $5.7M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $294M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Breaker — Breaker is Japan's global digital studio.
  • Anto Bio — Anto is building a multimodal foundation model for microbial communities, making the gut microbiome computable for the first time.
  • inXile Entertainment — inXile-entertainment.com is the home for inXile entertainment, developer of Wasteland 2, The Bard's Tale, Torment: Tides of Numenera, and The Mage's Tale video games.
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • BitStar — BitStar is the EnterTech company that accelerates the growth of video creators and content with our proprietary data and technology.
  • VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
  • Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$4.5M; Series A $2.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
  • Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
  • Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B 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.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $1.9M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
  • Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
  • AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $747k–$14M; Series A $102k–$47M; Series B $10M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • 91springboard — Discover premium coworking spaces, private enterprise offices and managed office spaces. Flexible workspaces with modern amenities and exceptional hospitality designed for growing businesses.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $804k–$34M; Series A $1.6M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Spike Studio — Spike Studio Inc., established in November 2023, is a Tokyo-based company specializing in generative AI and large language models. Their mission is to enhance Japan’s labor productivity tenfold by integrating advanced AI solutions into client operations and services. The company offers customized AI solutions, system integration, data analysis,predictive modeling, and training programs to help clients leverage generative AI effectively. Co-founded by CEO Shigeru Kuroyanagi and COO Hirohide Sano, Spike Studio aims to address challenges such as declining international competitiveness, an aging population, and labor shortages in Japan.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer offers a career programme. The users can understand their strengths and make use of them. The company identifies organizational issues for clients to investigate further, as well as issues based on hidden real intentions. The services help users consult with a professional career counsellor online and offer a text programme that isconducted by email, enabling clients to solve career development problems.
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Partners Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Full Commit Partners is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $788k–$1.3M; Series A $2.4M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • New Space Intelligence — We provide Satellite data pipeline services and Remote sensing Satellite Solutions with AI, machine learning and Big data such as Change detection through optical and SAR time series data, crop pattern classification, Infrastructure monitoring.
  • Infratech Japan Holdings — Infratech Japan Holdings operates a roll-up M&A and business succession model targeting civil engineering and manufacturing firms that maintain social and industrial infrastructure. By consolidating these entities, the organization delivers a hybrid framework of centralized operational support, management guidance, and AI-driven digitaltransformation to enhance individual corporate value. This ecosystem generates systemic value by optimizing resource allocation and driving cross-company synergies to resolve widespread aging infrastructure challenges.
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Suzuyo
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions. The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $747k–$43M; Series B $3.3M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Greenphard Energy — Greenphard Energy is a uniquely-placed startup in the field of intelligent IoT products based on AI and machine learning technologies. We provide SaaS solutions in the cloud for optimized control, remote monitoring, and analysis of industrial equipment, factories, and renewable energy facilities. We are also a demand response aggregator, helping tostabilize the power supply of the entire region.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $1.4M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $691k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $613k–$16M; Series A $2M–$45M; Series B $3.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Techtaka — SaaS, Logistics
  • Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
  • Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$35M; Series A $2.8M–$64M; Series B $2.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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.
  • TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$17M; Series A $2.4M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 269
  • Round size: Seed $413k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
  • Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
  • Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$23M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $824M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
  • MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
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ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$184M; Series B $6.9M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Benefuel — Benefuel is commercializing the world’s most advanced, solid catalyst biodiesel refining platform, capable of producing high quality biodiesel from almost any type of feedstock and thereby transforming the old model of large batch, centralized fuel production and fragmented distribution into a new model of localized production and consumption fromthe vast array of renewable, inedible fats and oils available in the global market.
  • Moixa Technology — Moixa Technology develops the Maslow intelligent energy storage solution, enabling homes to store energy and benefit from revenue streams generated by trading energy through GridShare, an SaaS platform that aggregates energy from groups of Maslow energy storage systems. . The company develops smart DC technologies to power DC lighting, computing,electronics from grid-shifted storage or local PV from smart DC hubs, variable DC networks and sockets. The technology and IPR reduces grid peak by shifting DC device load and powering DC devices efficiently without inverters or AC/DC adaptors, together with providing smart control and energy management. The technology aims to address the 1 trillion kwh + lost annually in power conversion, and the significant growing DC demand in homes, offices from ICT, LED lighting and the rise in internet connected devices.
  • OUE Lippo Healthcare (OUELH) — OUE Lippo Healthcare Limited (“OUELH”) is a subsidiary company of OUE Limited (“OUE”) and is listed on the Catalist Board of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. OUE and OUELH are member companies of Lippo Group, one of the Asia’s largest and most diversified conglomerates with close to 20 listed companies across Asia and serving over 60million customers annually.
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Gree
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Gaming, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$50M; Series A $4M–$78M; Series B $6.4M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • YGG Japan — YGG Japan elevates blockchain games to provide accessible content for all gamers in Japan and lead them to the world of “Play-to-Earn”.
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GMO Internet
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

GMO Internet Group comprehensively develops Internet Infrastructure, Internet Security, Online Advertising & Media, Internet Finance, and Cryptoasset businesses. Under the corporate slogan 'Internet for Everyone', we aim to create smiles and inspiration for our customers while contributing to society.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, SNS, FinTech
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $43M–$47M; Corporate Round $21M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MediBang — Main page for artists that create illustration and manga | ART street is an online art community for illustration and manga fans. Use art to communicate with creators and fans from all over the world. Find contests that are organized by collaborating with publishers and manufactures
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
  • Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.
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Yosemite
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Yosemite is an investment management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
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Missuestin Dormitory
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Missuestin Dormitory is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$5.7M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COMPEON — COMPEON is Germany’s leading financing portal for SMEs. Companies can obtain tailored offers from various financing partners for their planned projects by submitting a query free of charge at www.compeon.de. COMPEON works with more than 220 banks, leasing companies and special providers and handles financing enquiries with a total volume of €2.5billion every year. In addition to credit, loans and leasing agreements, the firm brokers also factoring and alternative financing products – such as mezzanine capital, purchase and project financing or private debt.The fintech company has been on the market since 2013. In addition to its three founders and managing directors Kai Böringschulte, Dr Nico Peters and Dr Frank Wüller, COMPEON is owned by DvH Ventures, b-to-v and Tengelmann Ventures.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
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Apricot Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Apricot Ventures is a seed venture capital that mainly supports those who start businesses independently from large companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $99M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • YAGO — YAGO operates in the IT field and provides internet and software services.
  • Nudge — Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$27M; Series A $3.5M–$99M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
  • 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.
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Harizuri
VC Fund · Atami, Shizuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Harizuri offers management, scientific, and technical consulting services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Fashion, Nutrition
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $4.4M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crstl — Crstl
  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • Immi — Rich, satisfying ramen with bold flavor. Packed with protein and fiber, with fewer carbs.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 537
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippeo — A global leader, and European specialist, in supply chain visibility, giving companies instant access to predictive and real-time information for all their deliveries.
  • Billogram — Since its start in 2011, Billogram has revitalized the outdated invoicing process by offering companies with recurring payments an intelligent digital platform. Using smart technology, we help companies strengthen their customer relations while also automating payment processes in a way that lowers costs, increases revenue, and reduces churn. Theresult is a payment that pays off for everyone.
  • Diamond — Setup an entire backend system for your online business in a few clicks.
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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
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Karatage
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Karatage is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
  • Dare Market — Dare Market is an innovative challenge platform built on the Solana blockchain, designed to create an engaging, transparent, and decentralized environment for users to participate in various skill-based and social challenges.
  • Mill City Venture III — Building the world's leading Sui treasury.
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FIREBUG
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, B2C, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Baby Jam — Baby Jam is a music app that offers music promotion, video editing, videography, and transaction services.
  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • TicketMe — TicketMe is Japan's largest NFT, allows to freely purchase and sell tickets for live music, theater, sports, and other events. Its purpose is to ''find the hidden value in the world and deliver the appropriate value to the right location.
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Toppan Printing
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. provides commercial printing and related services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Information & Networks, Living Environment, and Electronics. The Information & Networks segment provides commercial printing services for posters, catalogs, pamphlets, flyers, calendars, pop materials, and gifts, as well asoffers design and event services, sales promotion planning, multimedia related activities, and database and network system design and operation services; and publications printing services magazines and books, as well as CDROMs, DVDs, and other electronic publications. It also offers securities, such as stocks, bonds, gift certificates, and product coupons; cards comprising magnetic cards and prepaid cards; and develops and designs IC card systems, IC tag systems, and security management systems. This segment supplies various business form services, including direct mail, integrated slips, data print services, cards, envelopes, catalogs, and sales and maintenance of equipment. The Living Environment segment offers a range of packaging services, such as packaging planning, development, and production; development and production of packaging materials; design and production of packaging related system equipment; filling services; and packaging consulting. It also provides decorative paper/film, wallpaper, flooring materials, interior materials, and exterior materials. The Electronics segment offers display products that include color filters for LCDs, shadowmasks, screens for micro-display rear projection TVs, and functional films; and semiconductor products comprising photomasks, leadframes, printed wiring boards, substrates for semiconductor packages, design of printed wiring boards, LSI circuits, printed wiring, and performance assessment software. The company has a strategic alliance with AU Optronics Corp. Toppan Printing was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • Industrial-X — INDUSTRIAL-X provides business consulting, structure transformation support, DX human resource development, solution procurement support, and BPO solutions. Their customers inquiries are addressed through online applications.
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United
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Android, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fairy Devices — Fairy Devices is providing multilingual speech translation engine for station guidance robots.
  • FULL KAITEN Japan — Full Kaiten is a companyprovides the main functions of inventory reduction, purchasing optimization, and sales increase.
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Chukyo TV
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

JOCH-DTV, branded as Chukyo TV, is the Chukyo metropolitan area flagship station of the Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System (NNS), owned by Nippon Television Holdings through the Chukyo TV. Broadcasting Co., Ltd. Its studios are located in Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Audio, Travel
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EXest — EXest is aTokyo-based inbound travel promotion startup .The company provides the WOW U platform that connects inbound visitors to Japan with licensed interpreters and tour guides in addition to WOWU-media offering potential visitors to Japan with video clips introducing must-visit spots and popular local souvenirs on Facebook.
  • FIREBUG — Firebug is an entertainment startup.
  • Newrope — NEWROPE is a web service business and Media business platform.
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Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Tenchijin — Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data.
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S5 Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

S5 Partners provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, CRM, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Thecoo — THECOO is a developer of an entertainment application designed to support a fan community. The company's application offers fanicon is a member-based fan community that encourages the activities of icons together with their core fans, enabling clients to access live app streaming of entertainment contents they are interested in.
  • SOLAIRO — SOLAIRO is an online customer service solution that provides the best purchasing experience for online visitors
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Fashion VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 216 deals from 280 investors.

280
investors
in Japan Fashion startups
216
deals
in Japan Fashion startups
$13M
median round
in Japan Fashion startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
22%
Seed
most common funding stage

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