# Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Japan in June 2026

## SMBC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

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

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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

## Nobuhiro Ariyasu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Content, Internet

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

## Incubate Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical

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

## Mizuho Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## SBI Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services

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.

## DNX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

## AG Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Internet

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.

## Genesia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

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.

## Kotaro Chiba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Content, Information Technology, Travel

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

## Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

## ANOBAKA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Global Brain Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Mizuho Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

## ITOCHU Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## iSGS Investment Works
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.

## Credit Saison
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Credit Saison is a Japanese financial services company. They will fulfill their corporate social responsibility by striving to meet the expectations of all of their customers, shareholders, and business partners. They will compete successfully in the market by promoting their three shared values: practical implementation of the principles ofcustomer satisfaction as a leading-edge service company; mutual respect for their interests and those of their business partners; and developing a corporate culture of creative innovation.They aim to develop and offer many settlement instruments such as credit cards and prepaid cards to reduce reliance on cash, which is still the main way to settle transactions, and enable a cashless society. With measures to promote personal consumption, they are working to expand their client base, their card transaction value, and the scope of card settlements.With their entire corporate marketing system reinforced, they are working to move various kinds of corporate payments to cashless settlements by providing optimal solutions that match the needs and scale of companies.They are working to establish multiple core earnings pillars through stronger relationships with their partners and the provision of financial functions tailored to market needs in their lease rental, credit guarantee, and finance-related businesses.In the rapidly-changing Internet business sector, the Company has stepped up its agile cooperation with companies with outstanding content and with startups that have promising technologies, along with efforts at new business development, in a bid to expand its Internet business.They are preparing a foundation for a longer-term overseas strategy with an eye on forming strategic partnerships with local companies and Japanese companies expanding in these markets to enable us to advance in Asia’s non-bank market.Based on their belief that the personal growth of their staff constitutes the growth of their company, they are bolstering human resource development initiatives that make effective use of individual strengths and support the active participation of women in the workplace.

## JAFCO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Shintaro Yamada
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Finance, Content

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

## D4V
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Apps

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

## Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

## ITOCHU Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

## Yu Akasaka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

## Lifetime Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

## Chiba Dojo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.

## Seven Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Apps

Seven Bank offers a wide range of financial services, including ATM access, online banking, and loan solutions. Visit our official website to learn how to open an account and start banking with ease.

## Yusuke Asakura
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

Yusuke Asakura is an entrepreneur, a businessman, a venture investor, a scholar and the co-founder of Signifiant Inc. At Signifiant, Yusuke manages a ¥20 billion growth fund “THE FUND” aimed at growth-stage startups.

## Suneight Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Social Media, Content

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

## Angel Bridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Consulting

Angel Bridge  is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

## Arbor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Arbor Ventures is a visionary fintech-focused VC, partnering with innovators to shape a smarter future.

## Mitsubishi UFJ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We have the largest domestic and global customer base of any Japanese bank, consisting of a network of 500 offices in Japan and 40 other countries. We apply our values of integrity and responsibility by contributing to the improvement of the economic and social infrastructure wherever we do business.Our portfolio includes 40 million retailbanking accounts and 500,000 corporate customers. The extensive network that this represents is itself a valuable component of our financial role as part of the global social infrastructure.

## Shinsei Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Task Management

We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.

## KSK Angel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

## FreakOut Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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

## ANRI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## W ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, Internet

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

## DOGAN beta
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence

They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company

## Mobile Internet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.

## Ceres
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

## Yuzuru Honda
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SNS, Internet, Software

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

## Osamu Ogasawara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SNS, Content, Fashion

Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.

## Farus
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses

Farus is an investment firm.

## MUFG Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services

MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG

## LINE Financial Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Finance

LINE Financial Corporation provides a wide range of financial services. The company offers LINE Pay that allows payment and remittance, LINE Securities, LINE Score, LINE Pocket Money, LINE Hoken, LINE Smart Investment, LINE Household Account Book, and BITMAX. In addition, the company is preparing to establish a bank and utilizing blockchaintechnology, making use of LINE's user base to bring "money" and "users", which are indispensable in our daily lives, closer together and develop new financial services. doing.

## SoftBank Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages.  Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market.  Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

## Shoko Chukin Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.

## Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Corporate Round, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

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