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Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Fitness startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025

Investor	Fitness Japan investments
Yasuyuki Kin	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2
Hiroaki Kitano	2
Shoji Kodama	1
Minoru Moriya	1
Mamoru Taniya	1
Kamata Tomihisa	1
Makoto Takano	1
Tomohito Ebine	1
Otomi Tomohiro	1
Kenji Endo	1
Takashi Sato	1
Eiko Hashiba	1
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI	1
Sadoshima Ryuhei	1

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Yasuyuki Kin

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

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 Co., Ltd. — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

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.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Construction
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
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.

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

Investment focus

Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.

Investment focus

Fitness, Medical, Genetics
Seed, Angel
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

Investment focus

Content, Sports, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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.
CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

Investment focus

Health Care, Travel, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.

Takashi Sato is a Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures.

Investment focus

Fitness, Computer, Software
Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

RIZAP — RIZAP is a chain of a private gym that offers fitness training and consulting services.
Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.

Investment focus

Fitness, Health Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.

Sadoshima Ryuhei - President & CEO @ Safie

Investment focus

Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
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.
Voxela — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.

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