Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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8 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $177k–$40M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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8 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Software | $215k–$19M |
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Eric Di Benedetto
Angel
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6 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs | $1.8M–$6M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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5 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, Content | $151k–$36M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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4 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Food and Beverage, Internet | $28k–$6.2M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $277k–$28M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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4 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Internet, Content, Software | $226k–$27M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $63k–$36M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Fashion, Finance | $19k–$28M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $255k–$30M |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $222k–$12M |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Internet, E-Commerce | $320k–$36M |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources | $455k–$64M |
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Finance, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $608k–$1.2M |
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Chihiro Asano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, FinTech, Financial Services | $216k–$14M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $147k–$9.2M |
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce | $16M–$18M |
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Takayuki Sugiura
Angel
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2 | Japan, India | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Finance | $457k–$800k |
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Yuji Akaba
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Finance, Automotive | |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Fashion, Software | $252k–$9.2M |
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Kazumasa Tomita
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $740k–$750k |
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Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel
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2 | Japan, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Finance, Internet | $1.3M–$14M |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment | $467k–$1.8M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting | $90k–$7.1M |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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2 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Social Media, SNS | |
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Music, EBooks, Gaming | $35k–$774k |
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Ken Suzuki
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Hotel, Travel | $320k–$3.7M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $19k–$5.7M |
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Sagehashi Yuki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Seed | Content, FinTech, Finance | |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $252k–$2M |
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Kazutaka Muraguchi
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Yusuke Asakura
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Finance, Medical | $375k–$6.8M |
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Yosuke Tsuji
Angel
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2 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Accounting, Information Technology | $944k–$14M |
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series C | Internet, Consulting, Financial Services | $461k–$33M |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Junko Suzuki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Real Estate, Asset Management, Internet of Things | $47k–$4.2M |
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Takeshi Natsuno
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Angel, Series A | Financial Services, Marketing, Digital Marketing | $1.7M–$15M |
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Food and Beverage, B2C, Content | $63k–$64M |
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Daisuke Yanagisawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Sales, Finance, Agriculture | |
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Finance, Artificial Intelligence | $86k–$3M |
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Daisaku Harada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Finance, Tourism, Automotive | |
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Shinji Kimura
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$220M |
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting | $706k–$15M |
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Dave McClure
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $159k–$30M |
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Louis Beryl
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$14M |
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Teruhide Sato
Angel
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1 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Apps | $360k–$17M |
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Ryan Collins
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care | $2.4M–$65M |
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Justin Waldron
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Chile | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, Gaming | $50k–$5.3M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $330k–$8.2M; Angel $177k–$626k; Series A $1.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grafto — Grafto operates “Mylo Magazine,” a platform dedicated to sharing and promoting trend culture, where readers can explore the latest developments in lifestyle, fashion, art, and emerging cultural movements through engaging and curated content.
- FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $215k–$19M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $947k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Private investor at the crossroads of finance & technology: seed, private & public, hedge and other alternatives. Over 30 IPOs and M&A exits in excess of $13 billion in aggregate value...Professional investor in software start-ups for over 25 years, first as a VC, then as a professional angel investor. Specialties include technologyinnovation in financial services, AI and mobile services. Most recent primary focus: disruptive financial technologies with massive impact. Original investor in Lending Club - the world's largest P2P lending marketplace -, Clairmail, now Monitise - the world's leader in mobile banking and mobile money -, Signio, now PayPal - the world's leader in online and mobile payments -, Sentient Technologies - a company seeking to solve the world’s most complex problems through massively scaled artificial intelligence -, etc.Currently, investor in such companies as: Alpaca, Aromyx, Coursekey, Fuzzy, GoShare, GraphWear, Jyve, LeadCrunch, PeerIQ, QMerit, Sentient, Siftery...Please have your project referred and strongly supported by one of my LinkedIn network connections for consideration.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $5.7M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $151k–$1.8M; Angel $179k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$36M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN is a fantasy sports developer that introduces a new type of game where the players can earn prize money by predicting the players who will play an active role in soccer and baseball.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $302k–$4.3M; Angel $28k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $538k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $876k–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $277k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $226k–$4.3M; Angel $254k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $363k–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $63k–$4.3M; Angel $64k–$457k; Venture - Series Unknown $537k–$36M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $380k–$28M; Angel $64k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$363k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $255k–$7.1M; Angel $4.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $461k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $222k–$12M; Angel $457k–$716k; Series A $880k–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
- Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
- Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $320k–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $455k–$17M; Series A $3.8M–$64M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
- Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
- 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.
After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.
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- Industry: Finance, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $608k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
- Paytner — Paytner 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 whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.
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- Industry: Content, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $3M–$14M; Angel $216k–$733k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $147k–$9.2M; Series A $755k–$841k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.
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- Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
Takayuki Sugiura is an information security expert, he researches and develops security in various fields such as the Internet, smartphones, virtual currencies, information leakage, and IoT.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $457k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neukind — Make it Neukind
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Joined Komatsu after graduating from Tokyo University. He joined McKinsey after studying at Stanford University. Establishment of offices in Korea, management support of Zaibatsu, government support during financial crisis, etc. Established a breakthrough PARTNERS after McKinsey retirement to support thefounding of many ventures (current position). He participated in the founding of ZUU Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
- Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
- 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.
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $252k–$4.3M; Series A $4.6M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kazumasa Tomita Started a social networking company in university, Kazumasa Tomita, a Japanese entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of ZUU Co. Ltd.Upon graduation in 2006 from Hitotsubashi University.Tomita joined the business expansion department at Nomura Securities, one of the best financial institutions in Japan. He was a two times winner ofTop sales executive award within two years (2008 & 2009) and was also the youngest honoree in Nomura history.Thereupon he joined the private banking department and moved to Singapore and Thailand a year later. While in charge of asset management (10 billion yen) consultancy for ultra-high net worth individuals, Tomita also obtained a Master Science degree in Wealth Management at Singapore Management University in June 2011.In March 2013,Tomita resigned from Nomura Securities and started running ZUU Co. Ltd until now.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
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- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $740k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
- Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango
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- Industry: Marketing, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Skimlinks — Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform. Its technology automatically monetizes product links in commerce-related content
- MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
- HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $619k–$1.8M; Angel $467k–$716k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Yasuyuki Kin
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $90k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- Bond — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries. Linklusion provides management support such as business improvement and fund procurement to help institutions to deliver better financial services to more people with the power of technology.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Takashi Shibayama
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- Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $35k–$774k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
- AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
Graduated from Keio University, Department of Political Science and Law. 1998 Registered as an attorney. 2004: Mitsui & Co., Ltd. was established. Participated as a partner. 2006 Lecturer, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. In 2011, Inoki Law Office was established. Currently Director, Creative CommonsJapan, Outside Director of SAKURA Internet, Representative Director of Cyberbond, Mercari External AuditorHe assumed the position of.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
As SmartNews’s Co-CEO, Ken is responsible for its business and corporate operations, as well as its product vision and strategy. Ken co-founded SmartNews with Kaisei Hamamoto in 2012, and has been a member of the board of directors since then. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in complex systems from the University of Tokyo, where, as a projectresearcher, he continues to study complex systems and the future of the Internet. Ken was honored as a Super Creator by the MITOH Program of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2003. His first book, published in 2013, has been widely read in Japan's academic community, where he's regarded as one of the most significant thinkers about the Internet society.
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- Industry: SNS, Hotel, Travel
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $320k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $182k–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$184k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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- Industry: Content, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- DariaMe — DariaMe is a web media planning, development and operation, planning and production of various contents, online consultation service.
- BrainCat — BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.
- Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $252k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
Kazutaka Muraguchi is a VC at Nippon Technology Venture Partners. He Attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Gruff — Graph Co., Ltd. is a database renovation and AI algorithm development venture established by Harada Hiroe, a data scientist of the year award winner.Artificial intelligence-based business monetization support CRM support application development and operation Database commissioning development AI algorithm development.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Yusuke Asakura is an entrepreneur, a businessman, a venture investor, a scholar and the co-founder of Signifiant Inc. At Signifiant, Yusuke manages a ¥20 billion growth fund “THE FUND” aimed at growth-stage startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Finance, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $375k–$2.5M; Series A $1.4M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $973k–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Siiibo — Siiibo is a developer of an information platform intended to help private investors and companies to issue and purchase private bonds easily. The company's platform is creating a free, transparent, and fair direct finance that provides opportunities for an advisory to companies, such as support for diversification of funding using smallprivate placement bonds, and for building relationships with investors, enabling the private investors to get familiar with the issuance of corporate bonds.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Yosuke Tsuji is Founder & CEO at Money Forward
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- Industry: Software, Accounting, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $944k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.8M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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- Vuild — VUILD is an architectural tech startup that performs design and construction using digital fabrication technology.
- Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
- OnlyOne Travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.
Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.
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- Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $461k–$3.3M; Series C $20M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- UPWARDS — UPWARDS develop and operate the “cloud loan” loan platform for individuals.
- CrowdLoan — CrowdLoan is a platform that connects financial institutions and individuals with smooth loans.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Joined Hakuhodo in 2000. After media planning experience, he was in charge of campaigns for major domestic airlines. Joined istyle in 2011 and worked on marketing strategy development and marketing scheme development as the Sales Division Manager and Marketing Division Manager. In addition, promote corporate branding as Director of the PublicRelations Office. In February 2018, he became an Executive Advisor of Open Eight. In charge of alliance promotion and corporate branding.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Asset Management, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $47k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Tasuki — TASUKI TECH is a SaaS-based real estate value distribution platform for real estate developers. It serves as a life platformer, connecting "people to people" and "people to the future" around the world. Tasuki IoT residence, Tasuki funds, Tasuki tech, DX consulting, and Tasuki incubation fund are some of their services.
Mr. Takeshi Natsuno serves as the Chairman of Japan Operations at Great Wall Club. Mr. Natsuno is a Professor of KEIO University. He served as a General Manager of Consumer Services Division and Manager of Distribution Platform Business Development Division at Pia Corporation since April 2012 and served as its Chief of Sales Promotion Bureau sinceApril 2010. He joined DoCoMo in 1997. He served as the Managing Director of Multimedia Services, Products & Services Division for NTT DoCoMo Inc. until June 23, 2009 and served as its General Manager of i-Mode Planning Division since July 2001, Senior Vice President from June 21, 2005 to June 23, 2009, Executive Officer and General Manager Multimedia Service Division since June 2005. At NTT DoCoMo, he developed the business strategy of all of NTT DoCoMo’s multimedia-related services, including i-mode strategic alliances with global application/content providers and key Internet players. He served as Vice President of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He started his career with Tokyo Gas. He held key executive positions with HyperNet. He has been a Director of Dwango Co. Ltd., since December 1, 2008. He has been a Outside Director at Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. since June 2008. He has been a Director at Pia Corporation since April 2010. He serves as a Director of D.L.E Co. Ltd. He has been a Director of Gree, Inc. since September 2009 and Trans Cosmos, Inc. since 2008. He serves as a Director of GREE Ventures, Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Great Wall Club. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of SBI Holdings Inc. from June 27, 2008 to June 28, 2012. He served as a Director of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He is the Author of i-mode Strategy, published in 2000, a la i-mode, published in 2002, Keitai-no-Mirai, published in 2006, Iccho-yen kaseida otokono shigotojutu, and Google ni izonshi Amazon wo maneru bakakigyou published in 2009. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from Waseda University, Japan in 1988 and an Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Marketing, Digital Marketing
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $1.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
- Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
- Confidence — Confidence provides temporary staffing, recruitment, and outsourcing solutions for the gaming and entertainment industries. They also provide services such as QA to ensure quality, multilingual localization to support overseas expansion, and customer support.
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2C, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $63k–$20M; Angel $177k–$575k; Series A $1M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
- Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
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- Industry: Sales, Finance, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Ezowin — Ezowin is a management firm dedicated to developing agricultural products and connecting Japanese agriculture to future generations.
- Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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- Industry: Apps, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Angel $86k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Nose ID — Nose ID is a mobile application designed to monitor and protect pet dogs in the vicinity.
- Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
- StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.
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- Industry: Finance, Tourism, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $120k–$107M; Series B $4M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
- Drifting in Space — Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $706k–$14M; Angel $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
- H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $159k–$3M; Series A $673k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Tribal — Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and virtual business credit cards, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful spend management platform to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program.
- Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Flip — Great prices and unbelievably fast sales on popular, limited edition sneakers.
- AnchorUSD — Buy, sell, and send crypto Explore and Invest in all the top rated coins Instant Trade between thousands of coin pairs Support over at @AnchorUSDHelp
Teruhide Sato is based out of Singapore, Central Region and is the CEO and Founder of BEENEXT. Teruhide previously worked at BEENOS Partners as a Managing Partner. Teruhide Sato attended the Keio University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.7M; Series A $2.1M–$8.5M; Series B $5.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
- InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
- Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Collins is the Founder & Managing Director of MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia (MMV SEA) & he attended National University of Singapore in 2014.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $6M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
- Paidy — Paidy is a software platform that allows consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration.Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them eachmonth in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.
- Tuio — Tuio is an insurance company that provides a digital platform providing house or property insurance. Tuio offers 100% digital home insurance at affordable prices to protect what matters most to customers. Tuio provides a monthly subscription service, allowing customers to pay only for what they require when they require it.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $933k–$5.3M; Angel $800k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Remix — Remix is a platform combining AI and mobile gaming, designed to offer on-chain, AI-powered games.
- Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
- Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
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