Top 50 FinTech VC Funds & Investors in Japan (September 2026)

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• Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
• Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
• Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.

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• Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
• Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
• BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.

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• CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
• 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.
• Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.

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• Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
• FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
• trippiece — Trippiece is a service that allows you to share your travel plans on the web.

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• Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
• Valt Japan — VALT JAPAN is a social business compan that continues to pursue solutions to social issues.
• Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.

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• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
• Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
• Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.

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• HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
• Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
• Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.

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• Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
• AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
• Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.

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• ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
• Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
• Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.

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• OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
• Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
• Global Trust Networks — GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost.

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• Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
• Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
• Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.

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• IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
• PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
• NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.

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• Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
• Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
• Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.

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• ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
• EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
• Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.

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• Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
• GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
• Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.

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• Nocall — Nocall develops an automated calling system utilizing AI voice technology.
• RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
• Bulwark Dynamics — Bulwark Dynamics develops autonomous maritime systems for contested logistics and distributed military operations. Its CARAVEL platform is an autonomous beach-landing resupply vessel that delivers cargo from ship to shore without requiring port infrastructure. The vessel supports JMIC and ISO containers, autonomous cargo handling, GPS-deniednavigation, and operations in shallow or degraded maritime conditions. The company also develops vessel autonomy, command-and-control, hull production, payload integration, and sustainment capabilities for defense and maritime logistics applications.

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• 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.
• TASIMOVF — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox

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• POLASTECH — POLASTECH promotes structural transformation in energy-intensive industries, including data centers, by integrating materials technology and systems technology.
• AZUL Energy — AZUL Energy is a next-generation energy device that improves air battery performance, develops air battery-related products, and proposes eco-friendly and comfortable new lifestyles. They discovered that a catalyst electrode containing one of these pigments performed better than platinum carbon or existing catalyst electrode materials.
• Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.

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• Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
• Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.

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• Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
• Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
• AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.

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• Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
• Furnishka — Furnishka is a furniture industries that provides wide range of products for home decor items, sofa, coffee tables and dining tables.
• First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.

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• Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
• Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
• Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.

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• Octas — Octas offers brand management, licensing, business development and collaboration services for Japanese creators.
• Benefuel — Benefuel is commercializing the world’s most advanced, solid catalyst biodiesel refining platform, capable of producing high quality biodiesel from almost any type of feedstock and thereby transforming the old model of large batch, centralized fuel production and fragmented distribution into a new model of localized production and consumption fromthe vast array of renewable, inedible fats and oils available in the global market.
• Sirius Aviation Capital — A global commercial Aircraft Investment Asset Manager focused on liquid, in-demand mid-life narrowbody aircraft.

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• QNu Labs — QNu Labs is the first and only Indian company to develop Quantum cyber-security products using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Technology. QKD solves the problem of key distribution by allowing the exchange of a cryptographic key between two remote parties with unconditional security over a quantum channel.
• ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
• FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.

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• Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
• Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.

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• 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
• Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management 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.

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• Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
• Xperisus — Xperisus provides solutions to government agencies and local governments, such as support for the development of value-added experiences.
• SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.

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• PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
• 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.
• Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.

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• Rogo — Rogo is the secure generative AI (GenAI) platform built for elite financial institutions. Save time, unlock insights and automate workflows in days.
• Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
• Fundamental — The frontier lab building Large Tabular Models for enterprise prediction

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• AUDER — AUDER is an automation service provider that helps with household inventory, ordering, smart checks, and consultancy.
• Mntsq — MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.
• Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.

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• JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
• 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.
• Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.

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• GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
• 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.
• Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.

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• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
• Caring.com — The leading online destination for family caregivers seeking information, support, in-home care and senior living options for aging parents, spouses and other loved ones.
• Keep Holdings — Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands. The company's products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings' suite of services focuses on commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web canbring brands and consumers together in new productive ways.

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• 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.
• RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
• Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.

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• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
• Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
• Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

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• ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
• Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
• 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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• Creattura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
• Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
• Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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• Squadron Energy — Squadron Energy is an Australian resources company focused on projects in natural resources and renewable energy.
• Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
• AMPIN Energy Transition — AMPIN Energy Transition (Formerly Amp Energy India) is a leading renewable energy company driving India's green future with solar, wind, and storage solutions.

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• Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
• Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
• Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.

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• Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
• Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
• Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.

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• Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
• Packative — Platform to design and order custom packaging online
• CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

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• BiPSEE — BiPSEE is a medical XR company that provides treatment support for children for the purpose of nurturing a sense of self-efficacy. They also deploy AR and VR animation with one button dentistry and medicine, whether outpatient or hospitalized in various situations your child's anxiety and pain relieve. It aims to reduce anxiety and pain inchildren in a wide range of medical fields such as dentistry, pediatrics, and dermatology.BiPSEE is abs ed in Tokyo, Japan.
• SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
• ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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• Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
• Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.

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• CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
• Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.

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• CO-WELL — Cowell was one of the first companies in the industry to begin offshore development. It has accumulated software development know-how from professional engineers not only in Vietnam but also in Japan. It has achieved both high quality and low cost through a development system comprised of Japanese engineers with solid technology and Vietnameseengineers who graduated from top IT universities. It is used by a diverse set of customers, including major corporations and start-ups.
• Kokopelli — Kokopelli is a Fintech start-up company that develops the management support platform "SHARES" for small and medium-sized businesses and the AI ​​loan screening engine "FAI" (* 2) that enhances credit for financial institutions.
• ABCash Technologies — ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products.

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• AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
• Prossel Holdings — Prossel Holdings are a holding company based in Niigata, building the future of manufacturing and technology.
• Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.

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• Miive — Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.
• Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
• SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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• XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
• Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
• SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.

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• RevComm — RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management.
• Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
• Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.