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Top 50 Fashion VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 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
4 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$298M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $3.1M–$99M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $5.5M–$425M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
4 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Information Technology $933k–$35M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$369M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
3 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$77M
East Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
PE&HR
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $1.4M–$50M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$397M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Taiwan, Finland Seed, Series A Video, Gaming, Content $810k–$142M
D4V
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Apps $1.4M–$89M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$850M
Japan Post Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Turkey Series B, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing $1.3M–$765M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $730k–$57M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.1M–$85M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Taiwan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, Apps $229k–$928M
Venture United
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $776k–$68M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $4.8M–$283M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Finance $102k–$59M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $414k–$99M
POLA Orbis Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps $868k–$24M
AG Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$624M
Money Forward
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
JAFCO Group
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, Health Care
W ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Spiral Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Speech Recognition, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Persol Holdings
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Singapore Seed, Series A Human Resources, Recruiting, SNS
TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A Internet, Content, Advertising
Adways
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
Septeni
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SNS, Content, Fashion
YJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet
Missuestin Dormitory
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Corporate Round Internet, Content, Apps $39M–$113M
Cork
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Fashion, Animation, E-Commerce
Suneight Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, India Series A, Series B Internet, Social Media, Content $1.8M–$47M
GMO Internet
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Finance, Software, Financial Services
Apricot Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Internet, Fashion $2.1M–$14M
Startia
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Software, Social Network, Events
Dentsu Digital Holdings
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A Internet, Software, Financial Services $223k–$142M
Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, United States Seed, Corporate Round Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content $1.5M–$255M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $384k–$928M
Yosemite
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Legal, Water, AgTech $5.7M–$7.7M
Tokyu Agency
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SNS, Beauty, Content
LINE Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia, Thailand Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $3.7M–$567M
ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Internet, Software, E-Commerce $4M–$312M
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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: 265
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $8.3M–$298M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Secondz Digital — Secondz Digital is a company that helps businesses transform using generative AI agents.
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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, Task Management, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 497
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$170M; Series B $6.4M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • PLUGO — PLUGO provides ever-evolving "hospitality services" suitable for the future EV era, combining products & digital technology unique to IoT.
  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • M&A Bazaar — M&A Bazaar provides the M&A Bazaar Method, a revolutionary M&A process that systematically solves the challenges encountered by traditional M&A procedures.
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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, Marketing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

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.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
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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: 518
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Ridge-i — Ridge-i is proposing and developing an appropriate combination of technologies including AI in various phases of the company.We provide AI technology optimized for business needs. Ridge-i features Ridge-i's comprehensive ability to realize impact at business sites, from AI consulting focusing on machine learning and deep learning, to solutiondevelopment.
  • Plum Fintech — Join over a million people who save and invest without needing to think about it.
  • Humanising Autonomy — Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human-machine interactions. They are a predictive AI company creating a global standard that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment.
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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, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$34M; Series A $1.4M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • 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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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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: 447
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aruna — Aruna adalah integrated fisheries commerce startup di Indonesia, yang berusaha mewujudkan ekosistem perikanan dan perdagangan hasil laut yang adil.
  • Tanaku — Connecting Global Capital with Premier Bali Real Estate. Tanaku helps institutional investors and family offices uncover high-upside, vetted and opportunistic Bali real estate deals between $1-10m USD. Our Services include: Deal Sourcing, Deal Sponsoring & Property Financing.
  • Wagely — wagely allows your employees to get instant access to their earned wages, without making any changes to your processes or payroll.
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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 $1.4M–$28M; Series A $9.2M–$50M
  • 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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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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: 479
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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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: 115
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • SODA — Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.
  • 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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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, Taiwan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$38M; 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.
  • New standard — NEW STANDARD Co., Ltd. moves society through three STUDIO businesses, and provides ideas that the millennials are enthusiastic and solutions for business issues for companies and brands.
  • 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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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$41M; Series A $5.7M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Shinsekai Technologies — SHINSEKAI Technologies focuses on supporting companies, enabling them to advance their services to Web3 and NFT technologies.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 426
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $3.8M–$850M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Lavol
  • Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
  • Enerbank Japan — Enerbank is a development and operation of electric power auction system.
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Japan Post Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$133M; Series B $6.5M–$765M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
  • toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.
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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: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $20M–$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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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
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
  • OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
  • Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
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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: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $840k–$92M; Series A $229k–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
  • 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, Content
  • 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 provides online counseling services for career planning.
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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: 202
  • Round size: Seed $776k–$31M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Oikos Music — Oikos Music is a media company that provides service to support artists by purchasing music rights.
  • AI Mage
  • StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
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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: 336
  • Round size: Series A $4.8M–$170M; Series B $5.9M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
  • Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
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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, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • 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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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, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $747k–$14M; Series A $102k–$47M; Series B $10M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Progate — Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.
  • 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.
  • 91springboard — Explore 91Springboard, the best co-working company offering premium co-working spaces and shared office solutions. Whether you're a startup, freelancer, or team, enjoy flexible workspaces, modern amenities, and prime locations tailored to your needs.
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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: 156
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • Amu — amu corporate website. - Nothing is Worthless.
  • Sider — Sider Scan is a lightning-fast duplicate code detection tool for Java, JavaScript, C, C++, PHP, Ruby, CUDA. Find and monitor problems caused by code duplication.
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POLA Orbis Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 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
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$24M; Series A $868k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
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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: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $14M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$94M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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Money Forward
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
  • Bunker — Plug & Play Financial Analytics with Pivot Ready Excel https://bunkertech.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-2-videos-layout_left.mp4https://bunkertech.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/new-2-videos-layout_right.mp4 Due Diligence Controllership FP&A Bookkeeping Fundraising M&A CFO Services Book a Demo Try for Free Connect in 2 Minutes With Direct API Access Instant Insights Drill down to transaction-level data from day one Key Features Why Customers Choose Us Interactive Waterfall Charts Instant Drilldowns COA_Preserved
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
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JAFCO Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
  • Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
  • Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
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Spiral Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • Remind — Remind provides e-waste management and recycling solutions for electronic waste.
  • Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.
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Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups, 6 in the past 12 months

The information about the Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Speech Recognition, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • Aeronext — Aeronext is a Japanese startup that provides a center of gravity control technology to enhance the basic performance of drone.
  • Smart Education — Smart Education, Ltd. (located in Tokyo, Japan, President Daigo Ikeya) launched it’s kid’s music app “Rhythm Book” for smartphones and tablets. It’s in the App Store as an universal app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. With Rhythm book, kids can learn and feel the rhythm by tapping instruments along with their favorite songs. There are more than 100kid’s songs from TV, cartoons, to choose from and nursery rhymes in English and in Japanese. Stimulate the young mind with genuine and real studio recorded music and sounds. This app is designed to co-play between parents and child. You can purchase more songs via internet and the songs you’ve purchased can be co-owned by the same Apple ID through iCloud.
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Persol Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

The PERSOL (Person) group consists of a wide range of companies in over 90 domestic and overseas companies, including staffing, recruitment, recruitment advertisement, IT outsourcing and design development. In order to realize the vision of the group "To the growth and creation infrastructure of people and organizations", they are workingcomprehensively to solve the problems of labor and employment. "PERSOL (Personal)" is a new brand that was born in July 2016. The origin of the brand name is "People grow up through work (PERSON) and solve social issues (SOLUTION)." They support the growth of working people and have a desire to aim for a shining future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Recruiting, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
  • Piece to Peace — Piece to Peace is Operating a platform where individuals who want to learn and experience in all fields
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TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

TBS Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the media, content, entertainment, and IT sectors. It finances companies engaged in tech companies in sectors like Digital Media, E-commerce, AdTech, and Big Data Analytics. Top investments include iRidge, Fringe 81, Open Eight, Data Section, Piece of Cake. The company has 20 millionyen of assets under management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
  • Vark — ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
  • 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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Adways
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
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Septeni
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Septeni is developing various one-stop services to solve customers' marketing issues focusing on the Internet advertising agency business that has a proven track record in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

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.
  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
  • Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
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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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SEPTENI HOLDINGS Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Septeni Holdings started as a recruitment consulting company and become an internet advertising company in the year 2000. The company was established in October 1990 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $40M–$113M; Corporate Round $39M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gokko Club — Gokko Club operates in the digital entertainment industry, focusing on content creation, public relations, and video production. The company is known for its short drama productions, which are characterized by their condensed content and fast-paced development. Gokko Club handles all aspects of these productions in-house, including scriptwriting,directing, production, and editing. The company also has a strong presence on social media platforms like TikTok, where it has amassed a significant following. In addition to its entertainment offerings, Gokko Club also provides music streaming services.
  • Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support 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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Cork
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Cork offers fan marketing, community management, event management and work management services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Animation, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • picki — Picki is a company which develops fashion D2C platform. picki provided by the Company to properly manage and operate the personal information acquired by the Company.
  • CrestLab — CrestLab Inc. is a startup focused on developing and providing products for anime production, with a central offering called "ANICRA," which is an anime production support platform that leverages AI technology. This platform aims to aid in various aspects of anime production by integrating artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency andcreativity.
  • Taskey — Taskey is a smartphone novel community that will expand the creation of literary works to the world.
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$47M; Series B $1.8M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
  • Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.
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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, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fundbox — Fundbox offers fast, easy access to business financing, up to $150,000. Learn how our line of credit and term loan options can unlock growth for your business.
  • SHOWROOM — SHOWROOM provides live performance broadcasts by idols and celebrities in virtual stadiums.
  • 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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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 $2.1M–$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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Startia
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Startia provides web, network, and business solutions in Japan and internationally. It sells e-book production software, and CMS, and other web applications, as well as offers web-related outsourced production and development, web traffic consulting, and other services. The company also provides server rental and maintenance services, which areessential to have Web access and for e-mail, sell network equipment and other information communication equipment, act as intermediary with Internet service providers, and offer other services. In addition, it sells, installs, and repairs business phones and multi-function printers; designs office layouts with an emphasis on the communications environment; and provides network consulting services, including fiber optics and OTOKU line services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Network, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcterus — Adapts to their learning style, learning by learning in an optimized manner is maximized. Walking terrace is based on the knowledge obtained theory of technology and Adaptive Learning to deal with big data, from the guidance field, it will provide the best learning experience for the individual learner.
  • CLEAR — CLEAR is an educational note-sharing platform.
  • Revolver — Revolver is the new futuristic startup company.The team would provide the amazing solutions to the people who are not yet be satisfied by the current social networks with the simplicity and elegance.
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Dentsu Digital Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Dentsu Digital Holdings is a business management company that provides digital communication solutions and services.The company offers strategy solutions such as data capabilities in various industries, applications of cross-industry know-hows and experiences, and data analysis to identify strategic scenarios and KPI; planning solutions,including unified planning which combines mass media and real promotions, and digital creative agency services; and execution and operational solutions such as stable management framework, brand exposure management, and scenario revision based on a range of effectiveness measurement tools and databases.The company also provides internet advertising, advertising networks, and SEM services for agencies; marketing strategy planning, response management, support for direct businesses, and database marketing; marketing technology planning, development, and management; and digital and advertising agency, mobile marketing, online advertising, and interactive services.In addition, the company is engaged in the areas of digital marketing platforms and digital media, digital technology, social marketing, digital devices, and new business models using digital technology in Japan, East Asia, the United States, and Europe. It also manages venture capital funds, making strategic investments in the new IT-based communications domain.Dentsu Digital Holdings was founded in 2000 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It operates as a subsidiary of Dentsu Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$142M; Series B $223k–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Viibar — Viibar has a mission of "Opening the horizon of videos and making the world positive." We delve into the area of Video Tech through "Video SaaS Business", "DX Business for Media Platformers", and "Liver Success Business", and support the utilization of video by companies and individuals with technology andnew mechanisms.
  • Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Agile Media Network — Agile Media Network is a Tokyo-based advertising network and blog marketing company for blogs and social media. Much like Federated Media in the US, Agile Media Network, is well known for working with many top blogs, i.e. Engadget Japanese.The company, one of the biggest of its kind in Japan, provides a number of solutions in the advertisingand planning fields for its clients. For example, Agile Media Network handles and organizes banner ad sales, large-scale blogger meetings, web industry events or campaign blogs.In August 2009, the company organized WISH 2009, a web industry event in Tokyo at which startups were given the chance to demonstrate their services onstage to an audience of over 400 people.
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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, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$48M; 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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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$92M; Series A $535k–$928M; Series B $3.3M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
  • Nstock — Nstock is specialized in developing SAAS based applications for ecosystem.
  • Polyuse — Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology".
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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: Legal, Water, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$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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Tokyu Agency
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

Tokyu Agency is a advertising agency services and it is a Planning, drafting and production of advertising.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Beauty, Content
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GeoLogic Japan — Geologic is an Analyze large amounts of data such as location and ad distribution, and provide marketing support for companies.
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LINE Ventures
VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fashion startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$567M; Series B $5M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M 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.
  • Warung Pintar — Platform digital terpercaya untuk membantu warung tradisional Indonesia tumbuh bersama teknologi.
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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: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$312M; Series B $10M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatik — Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle mile delivery. Our autonomous box trucks move goods on short-haul B2B routes to improve supply chain efficiency.
  • DST Car — Dishangtie is a Shenzhen-based new energy vehicle rental service platform targeting the transportation and logistics industry.
  • 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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Fashion VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 194 deals from 252 investors.

252
investors
in Japan Fashion startups
194
deals
in Japan Fashion startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Fashion startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
22%
Seed
most common funding stage

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