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Top 50 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2026

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

Top 50 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2026

Investor Finance Japan investments
SMBC Venture Capital 11
East Ventures 8
Incubate Fund 7
DNX Ventures 6
AG Capital 6
SBI Investment 6
Mizuho Capital 6
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 6
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation 4
ANOBAKA 4
Global Brain Corporation 4
Nissay Capital 4
BEENEXT 3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 3
ITOCHU Corporation 3
D4V 3
Genesia Ventures 3
JAFCO 3
iSGS Investment Works 3
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 3
Mizuho Bank 3
Lifetime Ventures 3
Suneight Investment 2
Ceres 2
FreakOut Holdings 2
Shinsei Bank 2
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings 2
DBJ Capital 2
LINE Financial Corporation 2
Salesforce 2
Mitsubishi UFJ 2
STRIVE 2
MUFG Bank 2
Seven Bank 2
Chiba Dojo 2
Canal Ventures 2
Angel Bridge 2
Farus 2
Coral Capital 2
Credit Saison 2
Sony Innovation Fund 2
NOW Japan 2
Shoko Chukin Bank 2
KSK Angel Fund 2
SoftBank Group 2
Resona Bank 2
Monex Ventures 2
Mobile Internet Capital 2
TIS Japan 2
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
  • Bluefield Energy — Bluefield Energy redefines Japan's electricity sector through technology-driven renewable energy solutions. Its mission centers on liberating people and society from energy constraints by tackling high costs, environmental impact, and supply instability.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • ReDelta — Redelta provides a technology‑enabled platform and advisory services for cross‑border mergers and acquisitions between Japan and Southeast Asia. The service operates an In‑Out marketplace that connects corporate buyers, business owners, and investors pursuing expansion or divestiture. Engagements include deal sourcing, preliminary screening,valuation viewpoints, and coordination with local professionals throughout the transaction process. Sector and country reports, market briefs, and knowledge articles support planning and investment theses. The platform centralizes mandates and opportunities and facilitates communication between counterparties to accelerate initial discussions. Consulting support also addresses partner introductions and market entry considerations linked to post‑transaction growth.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
  • Zen Intelligence — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
  • Catallaxy — Catallaxy is operates Japan's easiest-to-understand manufacturing industry media and sheet metal processing media.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • enpay — enpay is a SaaS platform that offers cashless collection services.
  • 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.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
  • MODE — With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants.
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • AI Silk — AI Silk are innovative conductive fibers produced with a dyeing technique. By using natural silk and giving conductivity to the fiber itself, They have succeeded in producing electrodes that reduce some of the risks and challenges of conventional medical electrodes, which can cause discomfort,skin and in vivo inflammation, and measurement failuredue to sweat or other elements. Their brand, AI Silk, is a new material that has strong and diverse application potential, even beyond the health / medical field.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
  • Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
  • Bluefield Energy — Bluefield Energy redefines Japan's electricity sector through technology-driven renewable energy solutions. Its mission centers on liberating people and society from energy constraints by tackling high costs, environmental impact, and supply instability.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
  • Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • VPBank — As one of the earliest-established Joint-stock Commercial banks in Vietnam, VPBank has achieved steady development throughout its history. Especially since 2010, VPBank has grown dramatically with the development and implementation of the strategic transformation program diligently with support from one of the world’s leading consulting companies.
  • Pacific Energy — Our innovative energy solutions are transforming the way power is generated, delivered, and managed across the nation.
  • 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.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • Omnis — OMNIS
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Helpfeel — Our vision is to make saving, sharing, and exploring ideas as natural as breathing. On this journey we're humbled to be helping millions around the world from solo makers to university research labs, from gamers to pro designers, and large to small teams like ours.
  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

  • CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
  • Global Trust Networks — Global Trust Networks is a company that helps foreigners to live in Japan
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • India, Japan, Indonesia

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
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • InfiniMind — The intelligence layer for the physical world. Transform petabytes of video into structured, searchable intelligence.
  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
  • 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.
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ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • DST Car — Dishangtie is a Shenzhen-based new energy vehicle rental service platform targeting the transportation and logistics industry.
  • Zapata Quantum — Zapata builds software applications and accelerates capabilities for Enterprises ready to compete with quantum computing
  • OUE Lippo Healthcare (OUELH) — OUE Lippo Healthcare Limited (“OUELH”) is a subsidiary company of OUE Limited (“OUE”) and is listed on the Catalist Board of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. OUE and OUELH are member companies of Lippo Group, one of the Asia’s largest and most diversified conglomerates with close to 20 listed companies across Asia and serving over 60million customers annually.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

  • Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
  • SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore

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.
  • UnlimiTech — UnlimiTech provides an industrial workflow tool that simplifies and automates complicated spreadsheets processes that get stuck among systems.
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

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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Suneight Investment
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Social Media, Content
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India

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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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan

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.
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Finance
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Progate — Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.
  • Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
  • 91springboard — Explore 91Springboard, the best co-working company offering premium co-working spaces and shared office solutions. Whether you're a startup, freelancer, or team, enjoy flexible workspaces, modern amenities, and prime locations tailored to your needs.
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Shinsei Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Internet, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Japan, United Arab Emirates

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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Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The official site of the TOKAI TOKYO FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore

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.
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
  • 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.
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LINE Financial Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan

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.
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Salesforce
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

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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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Non Profit
  • Grant, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
  • Mistral AI — Take control of the future with a complete AI solution from platform to interface, with open, customizable models that can be deployed anywhere.
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Mitsubishi UFJ
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Malaysia

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.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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MUFG Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months

MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, United States

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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Seven Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Miive — Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.
  • Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Content, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Univearth — Univearth is a tech company that specializes in developing a logistics digital transformation platform to modernize the logistics industry.
  • FormX — FormX is a technology company that provides cutting-edge AI software and services for automated document data extraction.
  • InfiniMind — The intelligence layer for the physical world. Transform petabytes of video into structured, searchable intelligence.
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Canal Ventures
VC Fund · Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan

Canal Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm of the Nihon Unisys Group that invests in seed early phase startups.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Apps, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
  • Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
  • Zen Intelligence — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
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Farus
VC Fund

Farus is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Nstock — Nstock is specialized in developing SAAS based applications for ecosystem.
  • STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
  • Oceanic Constellations, Inc — Oceanic Constellations empowers ocean visualization with a network of autonomous surface drones and advanced marine monitoring technology.
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Credit Saison
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Juvo — Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-basedrelationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
  • CashU — CashU is a fintech company that provides credit solutions to small and medium-sized company to manage their security.
  • Pointsville — Empowering businesses to efficiently create, manage and service digital assets and loyalty programs, driving innovation and inclusion.
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
  • 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.
  • Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
  • Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.
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Shoko Chukin Bank
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, Singapore, Canada

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.
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Kenya

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.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, China, India

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.
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Resona Bank
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Resona Bank provides various banking products and services for individual and corporate customers in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Internet, Internet of Things
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

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.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China

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
  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, China

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.
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TIS Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series C, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumai — Lumai delivers optical compute for the inference era, enabling up to 50x AI performance and 90% less power. Supports billion-parameter LLMs today.
  • DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
  • ROLO Robotics — ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation.
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

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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Investment focus

  • Internet, Health Care, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
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