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Top 50 Fashion VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fashion startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fashion companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Fashion VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026

Investor	Fashion Japan investments
NOW Japan	4
Daiwa Corporate Investment	4
JAFCO	4
SMBC Venture Capital	3
East Ventures	3
PE&HR	3
Colopl Next	3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	3
VOYAGE VENTURES	3
Gumi Ventures	3
Global Brain Corporation	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
B Dash Ventures	2
Venture United	2
ANRI	2
Genesia Ventures	2
SBI Investment	2
D4V	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
Mizuho Capital	2
AG Capital	2
STRIVE	2
FreakOut Holdings	2
ANOBAKA	2
Harizuri	1
Gaiax	1
Incubate Fund	1
Isetan Mitsukoshi Innovations	1
Tiantu Capital	1
Money Forward	1
JAFCO Group	1
W ventures	1
Spiral Ventures	1
Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund	1
Persol Holdings	1
TBS Innovation Partners	1
Adways	1
Septeni	1
YJ Capital	1
Missuestin Dormitory	1
Karatage	1
ORIX Group	1
FIREBUG	1
Toppan Printing	1
Allfuz	1
Accord Ventures	1
Enigmo	1
Z Venture Capital	1
ASICS Ventures Corporation	1
United	1

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Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Task Management, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

QREATION — QREATION is a digital intellectual property studio specializing in producing a wide range of popular content that originates primarily from social media platforms. The company focuses on creating high-quality short-form entertainment, including short dramas, comedy sketches, and variety shows.
Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.

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.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
CaseBlink — AI for immigration lawyers | CaseBlink is AI software for immigration law firms. With CaseBlink, generate EB-2 NIW, EB-1A, and O-1 applications end-to-end.
Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Content
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, China, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, Finland

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Monogusa — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Counter Culture Company — Counter Culture Company is an online platform that offers K-pop dance classes ranging from beginner to professional levels.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Takumi Giken Kogyo — Takumi Giken Kogyo is a price technology developer to help parts manufacturers quickly identify acceptable product prices. Takumi Giken Kogyo assists in estimate calculation and product function through AI drawing search and repeat project determination function, enabling manufacturers with flexible customization of product functions based oncustomer requirements.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Inter — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lavol —
Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

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!

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, India, Singapore

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

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.
Omnis — OMNIS
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

Harizuri offers management, scientific, and technical consulting services.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Fashion, Nutrition
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crstl — Crstl
Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
Immi — immi has 6g of net carbs, is packed with 21g of protein and 18g of fiber, is keto-friendly, and is entirely plant-based.

Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Japan, Italy

Portfolio highlights

D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
Makigumi — Makigumi provides buildings design, management, construction, and real estate consulting services.
Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

Isetan mitsukoshi innovations is a corporate venture capital of the Isetan Mitsukoshi Group,a retail business group centered on the department store business.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Advertising
Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AI Model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
SKY FARM — Sky Farm is a platform for restaurants' and shops' ordering systems. They provide an ordering system to make delivery, takeout, and table orders.
GAUSS Japan — GAUSS develops a platform that manages the development, introduction, and operation processes of AI and machine learning.

Tiantu Capital is a venture capital association.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recorna Bio — Recorna Bio specializes in biotechnology, focusing on RNA editing and genome modifications through advanced research and development. They aim to innovate in genetic engineering, contributing to advancements in biomedicine and agriculture with cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise.
Leman Biotech — Leman Biotech is a biotech company that is engaged in development of cancer immunotherapies.
Xellar Biosystems — Xellar Biosystems is a wet artificial intelligence biotechnology company that provides analysis of drug testing and treatment.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, India, Vietnam

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

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

Investment focus

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Indonesia, United States

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.

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

Investment focus

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

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.

The information about the Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund.

Investment focus

Speech Recognition, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, SNS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, India, Singapore

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

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Advertising
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

SNS, Content, Fashion
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Indonesia

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

Missuestin Dormitory is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Fashion, Big Data, Marketing
Series A
Japan

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.

Karatage is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

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.

ORIX is a dynamic and diversified enterprise offering a broad range of services. Since its founding in 1964, ORIX has developed a dynamic and diversified portfolio offering a broad range of services. ORIX is a leader in numerous domains including leasing, corporate finance, industrial/ICT equipment, environment and energy, automobile-related,real estate-related, private equity investment and concession, banking, and life insurance businesses.These businesses are inter-related and have their own strengths. By sharing of information and customer base of these diverse ranges of businesses, synergistic effects can be achieved.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Energy
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
Horizon Robotics — Horizon Robotics is a leading provider of ADAS and AD solutions for passenger vehicles with proprietary software and hardware. Our solutions combine cutting-edge algorithms, purpose-built software and state-of-the-art processing hardware, providing the core technologies for assisted and autonomous driving that enhance the safety and experience ofdrivers and passengers.

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.

Investment focus

Music, B2C, Apps
Seed, Series A
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
Japan, United States, India

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.

Allfuz is a contents boutique that offers advertisement planning, production, contracting, management, and promotion; as well as talent casting, content development, platform development, and more.Allfuz was launched in May 2012 as a company that develops and expands the possibilities of completely new entertainment services. For example,specifically, a casting business that focuses on the hobbies and tastes of artists and talents.Allfuz is developing a new service that integrates advertising production for the first time in Japan, and is currently working on diversified services that are not bound by existing frameworks, such as "digital content" and "restaurant business."

Investment focus

Music, Video, Mobile
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Lute — Lute is an Instagram Stories media that produce and deliver video content specialized for mobile to deliver edgy content to the digital native generation worldwide. In order to realize the above, lute pays tribute to the historical backgrounds and past works that have had a great influence on the artists and their works that are currently active,their appearance and development, cultural We will produce video works with value and contextual appeal.The vision of lute like this is to protect the rights of authors, etc. while keeping in mind the fair use of cultural property (= content), contributing to the development of culture ", the 1st Copyright Law No. 1 It is in keeping with the objectives stipulated by the Article.Therefore, lute will actively use / quote contents such as voice, images including pictures, video etc.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.

Enigmo is a web start-up, based in Shibuya, Tokyo. The company offers various web services for both the wired Internet and cell phones. It expanded its operations to overseas markets by bringing pressblog, a marketing promotion service for blogs to Korea. BuyMa, a shopping platform, has users in more than 50 countries. In September 2007,Enigmo localized their user-driven blog promotion and video service "rollmio" into English.Currently, the company has plans to also offer their social sharing service "Sharemo" in an international version.

Investment focus

Fashion, Art, Rental
Seed, Series B
Japan, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Douzo — We challenge ourselves to create a brighter future for Japan, where Japanese manufacturers can uphold their venerable traditions while gaining a new perspective on product globalization to take off into the world.
ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
SHAREDINE — SHAREDINE is a Food and Beverage start up.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

mahocast — Mahocast operates a comprehensive business platform that supports every stage of an artist’s journey—from initial planning and content production to ongoing management and promotion.
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.

ASICS Ventures Corporation, a venture capital arm of the company that would accelerate and invest in startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bisu — Every day we flush precious information on our bodies down the toilet. Bisu helps people capture these data and lead healthier, happier lives. Our product is a home health lab that provides personalized advice to help you look, feel and perform at your best, through easy, accurate urine and saliva tests. We are graduates of HAX, the world'sleading hardware accelerator, and have won numerous awards including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, MedTech Innovator, the Edison Awards, UK Tech Rocketship Awards and the British Business Awards. At CES 2020 we won the IHS Markit Innovation Award and were named by CNET as one of the top health-tracking devices.
LYMB.iO — We are on a mission to make the world more active using the power of gamification.In a time, where technology fosters an inactive lifestyle, we realized that physical activity needs to be more attractive to stay relevant. Our mixed reality sports solutions enable athletes to train in more engaging ways, provide coaches with data analytics, helpkids to improve their motor skills and make it easier and fun for all of us to start working out and stick with our training routine. But apart from making sports as fun as gaming, we’re especially proud of getting inactive people moving – the kids and adults that never considered taking up a sport.
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. — Seevix is a privately held biotech company producing high-strength, biocompatible spidersilk fibers, identical to natural fibers. Through recombinant DNA technologies, we are unique in our ability to replicate the natural self-assembly process of spidersilk creation. Seevix targets applications where the fibers’ mechanical properties can radicallyimprove existing products and provide solutions for unmet needs in a variety of industries.

Venture Capital

Investment focus

Android, Fashion, Internet
Series A, Series B
Japan

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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