Top 50 Finance VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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12 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | $4.5M–$425M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$369M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $649k–$38M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $2.7M–$553M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | $4M–$283M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$71M |
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AG Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Finance, Software, Internet | $1M–$71M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.2M–$255M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$369M |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology | $6.6M–$3B |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $414k–$99M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $788k–$68M |
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $834k–$15B |
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ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $4M–$312M |
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D4V
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Apps | $1.4M–$89M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$298M |
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $730k–$57M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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3 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $500k–$51M |
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Medical | |
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Credit Saison
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Singapore, India | Series B, Debt Financing | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $5.7M–$510M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$369M |
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, China, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $758k–$213M |
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $102k–$59M |
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Shoko Chukin Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Canada | Debt Financing, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Advertising | |
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Resona Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Debt Financing, Series A | Information Technology, Internet, Internet of Things | |
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Internet | |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet | $1.4M–$50M |
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MUFG Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services | |
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Farus
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Finance, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses | |
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Canal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Apps, Internet | $9.6M–$600M |
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Shinsei Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Series C | Finance, Internet, Task Management | $14M–$354M |
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TIS Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Indonesia | Series C, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $740k–$496M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$64M |
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $6M–$156M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $746k–$170M |
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Arbor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $6M–$175M |
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Saison Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series B | Software, Content, Finance | $113k–$425M |
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India | Series A, Series B | Internet, Social Media, Content | $1.8M–$47M |
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Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Corporate Round, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $4.6M–$283M |
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, Medical, Health Care | $4M–$510M |
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LINE Financial Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Apps, Mobile, Finance | $28M–$2.8B |
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Salesforce
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, Canada | Grant, Series A | Software, Non Profit, SaaS | $25k–$422M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $838k–$1B |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $800k–$142M |
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$326M |
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NOW Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Content, Marketing, Software | $771k–$35M |
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $1M–$100M |
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DOGAN beta
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Health Care, Internet | $37k–$700M |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 513
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 500
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Emium — Emium creates an infrastructure that will be a driving force in dental care and dental technology.
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 448
- Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
- Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
- Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 439
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
- LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
- Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Round size: Series A $4M–$170M; Series B $6.5M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
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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- 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.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$23M; Series A $5M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
- Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 532
- 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
- Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Logly — Logly is a media Technology Business / Ad Technology Business.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 258
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $48M–$3B; Debt Financing $6.6M–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Drip Capital — Drip Capital is a Trade Finance company providing collateral-free post-shipment finance to Exporters and Importers with instant approvals and minimal documentation.
- UltraTech Cement — UltraTech Cement is an Indian multinational cement firm that produces and distributes gray cement, ready-mix concrete, and white cement. It serves as a home-building partner, providing a complete range of building materials and support throughout the process. It is committed to actively maintaining the environment and conserving natural resourcesfor the future, with a focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling.
- Waypoint Leasing Services — Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational backgroundtranslates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $414k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
- AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $788k–$28M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
- Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
- Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 231
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $300M–$15B; Debt Financing $834k–$1.2B
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Taxnap — Taxnap develops tax management software for freelancers.
- Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
- UltraTech Cement — UltraTech Cement is an Indian multinational cement firm that produces and distributes gray cement, ready-mix concrete, and white cement. It serves as a home-building partner, providing a complete range of building materials and support throughout the process. It is committed to actively maintaining the environment and conserving natural resourcesfor the future, with a focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- 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
- Benefuel — Benefuel is commercializing the world’s most advanced, solid catalyst biodiesel refining platform, capable of producing high quality biodiesel from almost any type of feedstock and thereby transforming the old model of large batch, centralized fuel production and fragmented distribution into a new model of localized production and consumption fromthe vast array of renewable, inedible fats and oils available in the global market.
- Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
- Zapata Quantum — Zapata builds software applications and accelerates capabilities for Enterprises ready to compete with quantum computing
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- 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
- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- 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.
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $6.4M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
- The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- 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.
BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$29M; Series B $4.6M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- mewt — Lovable Generated Project
- Driffle — A marketplace built for gamers by gamers. Browse a huge collection of games, gift cards & subscriptions.
- ProsParity — Reimagining Distribution Of Credit In The Electric Mobility Sector
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
- Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
- Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Series B $5.7M–$221M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$510M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- OpenAssets — OpenAssets builds open infrastructure and technology for digital financial systems and tokenized capital markets. The company develops standards and platforms for issuing and managing tokenized assets, digital currencies, and programmable money across major blockchains. Its solutions include tokenization-as-a-service, compliant asset issuancetools, and programmable ownership features for bonds, equities, commodities, and other assets. OpenAssets serves governments, central banks, financial institutions, and digital asset companies seeking to modernize capital markets. The organization also convenes industry alliances to define technical, policy, and governance frameworks for programmable finance.
- Turbi — Turbi is a digital shared mobility company that makes car rental experience practical, cheaper and unique
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
- CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $758k–$28M; Series A $1.8M–$85M; Series B $1.8M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- 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.
Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.
- Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
- Pathfinder — Pathfinder is a research and development company that provides MaaS and delivery vehicle application development services.
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!.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 219
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Skild AI — Building general purpose robotic intelligence
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
Resona Bank provides various banking products and services for individual and corporate customers in Japan.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Internet of Things
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
- ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
- Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- KAKEAI — Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.
- Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
- Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$39M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
- AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
- Embraer — Embraer SA is a Brazil-based holding company primarily engaged in the manufacture of aircraft. The company’s business activities are divided into three business segments: Commercial Aviation; Defense and Security Business, and Executive Aviation. The Commercial Aviation segment is involved in the development, production, and sale of commercialjets, as well as in the provision of support services, with emphasis on the regional aviation industry and aircraft leasing. The Defense and Security Business segment mainly includes the research, development, production and modification of defense aircrafts as well systems and software design. Through the Executive Aviation segment, the company is active in the development, production, and sale of business jets, the provision of support services related to this sector of the market, and aircraft leasing. Embraer has subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and representative offices in Brazil, the United States, France, Holland, and China, among others.
- Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
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Browse database — It's Free!Farus is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Canal Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm of the Nihon Unisys Group that invests in seed early phase startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $9.6M–$81M; Series A $20M–$600M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yuurea — Yuurea is a healthcare company that develops mobile applications for analyzing the health metrics from urine test and AI questionnaire.
- Al Travel — Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM). AI Travel reduces business travel arrangements by up to 90% and simplifies application and reporting operations and significantly cuts operations that do not generate profits in the batch settlement.
- Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $33M–$354M; Series C $14M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $740k–$71M; Series C $7.5M–$496M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logice — Logice delivers seamless cold chain solutions, improving reliability in warehouse, delivery, and processing.
- Sembuh AI — Sembuh AI is an insurtech company that develops an AI‑based platform for health‑insurance claims processing. It focuses on automating high‑volume claims review, detecting fraud or anomalous claims, and reducing overpayments for insurers and third‑party administrators. The company acts as a claims‑automation and analytics layer rather than a directinsurer or payer.
- StratifiCare — At StratifiCare, we focus on the development and manufacturing of IVD (In-Vitro Diagnostics) assay solutions for personalized medicine. With more than 50 years of cumulative in-depth experience in Biomedical R&D and technology commercialization, StratifiCare strives to empower personalised medicine.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
- pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $13M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $185M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
- Agility — Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments.
- Gastrograph — Gastrograph AI has designed the first artificial intelligence platform to interpret and predict flavor preferences for over a billion unique consumer groups. This technology empowers CPGs to look beyond trends, and formulate unique, novel and successful food and beverage products based on custom sensory intelligence.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$170M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
- Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
Arbor Ventures is a visionary fintech-focused VC, partnering with innovators to shape a smarter future.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Series A $6M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Abra — Abra provides wealth and treasury management solutions to give clients an edge across trading, borrowing and investing digital assets.
- Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
- Ready — Get Ready BOSS for your CSP digital transformation. Cross-sell OTT services, subscriber self-service & more. Includes flexible, modular billing & API.
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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- Industry: Software, Content, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $113k–$107M; Series B $1.2M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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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- 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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $35M–$51M; Corporate Round $4.6M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADDX — Explore private markets and alternative investments. Invest in structured products, private equity, hedge funds, and more, with lower minimums and transparent fees.
- PayPay — PayPay is an online payment application. This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. For PayPay, per person, the granting limit for one payment is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the total granting limit for one month is equivalent to 30,000 yen.
- Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Series A $4M–$283M; Series B $6.9M–$510M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
- Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $28M–$2.8B; Corporate Round $425M–$2.8B
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LINE Credit — LINE Credit is a Provision and operation of personal scoring and personal unsecured loan services.
- Line — LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.
- LINE Securities — LINE Securities is a provider of remote securities brokerage and securities investment consultation services.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service,marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.
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- Industry: Software, Non Profit, SaaS
- Stage:Grant, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Grant $25k–$2.5M; Series A $12M–$422M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
- Genesys Works — Genesys Works connects underserved high school students with transformative internships, empowering them through training and meaningful work experiences.
- Cloud for Good — We've helped over 2000 nonprofits + higher education institutions implement Salesforce. 2020 Salesforce.org Nonprofit partner of the year.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Series A $35M–$236M; Debt Financing $838k–$1B
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tryeting — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
- HelloWorld — EdTech, International Exchange between Schools
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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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- 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!
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$326M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $342M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
- Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $771k–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
- LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1M–$48M; Series A $2.2M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- manebi — manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.
- Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
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
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $37k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$700M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
- Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
- Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
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