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Top 50 Fitness Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Fitness startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Fitness startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $788k–$68M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$850M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $3.1M–$99M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $4.3M–$30M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$142M
Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Singapore Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $2.5M–$55M
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$213M
Zeroichi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Music, Sales $4.7M–$18M
STATION AI
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Drones $700k–$47M
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Health Care, Fitness, Medical $3.3M–$43M
W ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $1.6M–$413M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$624M
NOBUNAGA Capital Village
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Content, Robotics $885k–$928M
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Content, Task Management, E-Learning $2.4M–$3.1M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$142M
Gazelle Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Apps, SaaS $264k–$71M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $709k–$77M
START POINT
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Food Processing, EdTech, Fitness
GLOBIS
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Pet, Apps $16M–$50M
Shizen Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Apps, SaaS $440k–$1M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $1M–$64M
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps $2.1M–$14M
Chugoku Electric Power Group
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$397M
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Malaysia Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $775k–$45M
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Consulting, SaaS, Home Services $4.9M–$35M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$369M
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
WERU Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Consulting $1.5M–$64M
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Content, Sports, Apps $1.4M–$221M
Optima Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Processing, Information Technology
The Seed Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Information Technology, Consulting, Audio $2.1M–$85M
Asia Venture Group
VC Fund
1 Malaysia, India, Japan Seed, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage $500k–$23M
Double Sharp Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Seed Food Processing, Rental, Fitness $108M–$425M
Aichi Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Series C SaaS, Consulting, Environmental Consulting $1.6M–$92M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $522k–$99M
Asuka Holding
VC Fund
1 India, Japan Seed, Series A Sports, Banking, FinTech $500k–$2M
And Factory
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Corporate Round, Series B, Seed Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS $28M–$156M
Shoji Kodama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series B Internet, Real Estate, Fashion $14M–$14M
Minoru Moriya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet $5.7M–$14M
Kenji Endo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, Internet
OKB Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech $1.5M–$85M
Fukuoka Financial Group
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Recruiting, Content, Media and Entertainment
Japan startup support Association
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Task Management
Sea Forest Circulation
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A SNS, Apps, Content
FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Safie Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Taiwan, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $788k–$31M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Eitoss — Eitoss is a technology company which has developed and provided the proposal improvement cloud "Cayzen".
  • Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 418
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $3.8M–$850M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
  • OpenHeart — OpenHeart is a provider of the tactile 3D platform.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$47M; Series A $5.1M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Rendez-Vous — RENDEZ-VOUS offers a co-ownership option for vintage cars.
  • RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
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Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jualo — Situs jual beli online barang baru dan bekas yang mudah dan aman untuk digunakan bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Jadikan Jualo.com teman jual belimu.
  • Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
  • WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1M–$85M; Series B $3M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Agatha — Agatha is a provider of strategic software solutions to the health care and life sciences industry. It is dedicated to helping hospitals, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and medical device firms optimize the management of their quality and clinical documentation and processes.
  • Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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Zeroichi Capital
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Zeroichi Capital is an independent venture capital firm that invest/R&D startups. Zeroichi Capital assists in a variety of areas, including pre-startup consultation, ideation, business plan planning, establishment procedures, teaming up, and financing, with the goal of reaching the Series A round as soon as possible and putting you on agrowth trajectory beyond that.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Vitom — Vitom is a FoodTech startup that addresses the issues of sustainability and reliability in the food industry.
  • CrossVision — CrossVision offers solutions and services specific to the VTuber market.
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STATION AI
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Drones
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$47M; Pre-Seed $700k–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Gaxi — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$28M; Series A $28M–$413M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Matilda — Matilda, which runs a home-cooked takeout service. Orders and payments are processed online at Matilda, and customers can pick up their daily home-cooked meals from a nearby takeout station.
  • Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • ECloud — E-Cloud is combines the experience and know-how cultivated in finance, IT and venture capital to provide information and opportunities related to venture investment, which has been limited until now, through the equity investment type cloud founding platform e-cloud. It provides to the general investor, and provides entrepreneurs with new means ofraising funds in addition to traditional banks and venture capital.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
  • 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 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.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Fitness startups

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 235
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$94M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
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NOBUNAGA Capital Village
VC Fund · Gifu, Gifu, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

NOBUNAGA Capital Village is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in early-stage and later-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Content, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $885k–$47M; Series A $1.5M–$928M; Series B $1M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cykinso — Cykinso is a developer of a home-testing kit designed to tell people the state of their intestinal bacteria. The company provides a testing service to clarify the state of the intestinal environment by using a sequencer that reads a large number of DNA sequences at high speed, enabling users to investigate the relationship with lifestyle-relateddiseases and digestive diseases based on changes in intestinal bacteria.
  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • FiberCraze — FiberCraze is a manufacturing company that specializes in the development and sales of thread materials.
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Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative is the company research and investing information.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Task Management, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Corporate Round $2.4M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pathee — Pathee is a search engine that finds specific information for people starting from their current location. The next-generation search engine to find information of close ones starting from the current location.
  • Insight Core — Insight Core is a store promotion specialized application platform service.
  • Omatsuri Japan — Omatsuri is Japan's first festival company specializing in Japan.We provide planning, management, promotion, and customer support for festival organizers from local governments to store associations.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$31M; Series A $1.9M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hokan — hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents.
  • Autoro — Autoro is a customer business automation company with web auto robot. Autoro combines browser automation, application programming interface linkage, and machine learning, and Autoro automatically completes tasks. They automate office tasks for businesses, including report preparation, accounting, document preparation, and more.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
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Gazelle Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $264k–$24M; Series A $9.9M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recept — Recept is a software company that develops information management apps for educational institutions and business promotion services.
  • Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!
  • DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 223
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
  • CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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START POINT
VC Fund · Minami, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

START POINT is an event management company that provides support for loading and unloading equipment, setting up stages, and managing venues at live events. The company was founded in 2010 and based in Minami, Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food Processing, EdTech, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
  • CO-NECT — CO-NECT is a cloud-based online ordering system designed to let users place and receive orders anytime.
  • HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.
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GLOBIS
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

In 1992, GLOBIS started out with one marketing course in a small, rented classroom in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Since then, the management environment surrounding Japanese companies has reached an unparalleled turning point requiring dynamic change and creativity. The history of GLOBIS is the continual pursuit of creative change and innovationdrawing upon our own experience in starting and growing businesses. In "People" infrastructures, we have turned out a large number of business leaders and supported corporate clients in enhancing their management capabilities. In "Capital," we have supported the creative efforts of venture businesses, and in "Knowledge," we have published numerous books on management. With each new day, GLOBIS takes another step toward becoming the No. 1 business school in Asia as well as Asia's No. 1 venture capital firm. Yoshito Hori Chairman and CEO of GLOBIS Corporation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Pet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $16M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
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Shizen Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xMap — Explore xMap, a premier location intelligence SaaS platform. Access vast data sets from multiple industries worldwide, visualize on maps, and drive data-driven decisions. Elevate your business strategy with unparalleled insights and achieve market leadership.
  • Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
  • Colega AI — Create engaging social media content every day with AI. Colega AI is your AI social media manager that helps your business grow and reach new customers.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Chugoku Electric Power Group
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated is engaged in the provision of total solutions for electric business.The Company operates in four business segments. The Electricity segment is engaged in the provision of electricity. The General Energy Provision segment is engaged in the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as the provisionof services utilizing electricity and heat energy. The Information Communications segment is engaged in the telecommunication business, information processing and the design of information systems. The Others segment is involved in the provision of engineering services, the agent sale of real estate and the repair of instrumentations, among others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
  • Wamazing — WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • CO-NECT — CO-NECT is a cloud-based online ordering system designed to let users place and receive orders anytime.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 462
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $5.1M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, SaaS, Home Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $4.9M–$17M; Series A $24M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • 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.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$152M; Series B $5M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ThinkCyte — ThinkCyte provides single-cell analysis for research, diagnostics, and therapeutics with an integrated multidisciplinary approach.
  • NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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.
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WERU Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

As a pioneer and innovator in venture capital in Japan for the past 2 decades, we are deeply engaged in developing and supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups by leveraging our strategic position as a conduit between government, business and academia.“WERU” is the first research unit in the field of entrepreneurship in Japan established byprofessors at the graduate school, Waseda University in 1993. “WERU Investment” is the first venture capital closely associated with university research labs, centers and institutes in japan. WERU Investment provides financial services for institutional investors (e.g. Pension funds and Endowments) as a Japanese discretionary investment manager (DIM) by fully taking advantage of these research resources, accumulated know-how and strong network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$64M; Series A $6.9M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Synfini — Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
  • Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
  • Cinderelax — Cinderelax is a makeup video app through which individuals can learn makeup.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Sports, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$48M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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.
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Optima Ventures
VC Fund · Matsuyama, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Optima Ventures is a company that invests and supports venture companies mainly in Shikoku.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Processing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Michil — michil is a glocalist business, research business, communication design business (advertising and PR). pre-research marketing using multifaceted information gathering tools, sales promotion events for Japanese companies
  • Play Life — PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information thatcoordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.
  • SmartRyde — October 5, 2021 Bloomberg featured CEO Sota Kimura's thoughts on the company's founding and future business development. March 19, 2021 What We Do to Protect Our Customer All staff are required to wear masks. Provision of alcohol-based disinfectants in
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The Seed Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Consulting, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$24M; Series A $24M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • CharacterBank — CharacterBank offers game development and production services using VR technology.
  • New Innovations — New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack oftalent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin.
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Asia Venture Group
VC Fund · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international managementtalent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Malaysia, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$14M; Series A $1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $78M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • Bem Robotics — Bem Robotics is developer of indoor industrial robotics technology designed to improve automated material handling and operational control
  • Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals
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Double Sharp Partners
VC Fund · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Double Sharp Partners is a corporate venture capital that invests in start-up companies and entrepreneurs who provide advanced and innovative businesses and services that use IT to solve social issues and inefficiencies. The firm aims to create a prosperous and comfortable future together with entrepreneurs by funding start-up companies thatchallenge innovation ahead of change.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food Processing, Rental, Fitness
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series B $108M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nonpi — Nonpi develops food and technology that can be exported to the world with services like food delivery and cafe planning and management. The company is involved in the retail sale of prepared foods and drinks for on-premise consumption.
  • Social Interior — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
  • HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.
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Aichi Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Aichi Capital is a financial venture capital firm that is a 100% subsidiary of Aichi Bank. It was founded to help local communities by assisting customers with business succession and assisting in the development of venture and startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Consulting, Environmental Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4.7M; Series A $28M–$43M; Series C $14M–$92M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • Seiwa Holdings — Seiwa Holdings is a company that specializes in the welding of large structures. It holds a significant share in the large sign industry in the Chubu region. The company also has a subsidiary, Toei Coating, which boasts one of the largest facilities in Gifu for electric zinc plating. Seiwa Holdings is also involved in the production of road signposts and bridge fall prevention devices. The company operates in the financial services industry and has a workforce of 2 employees.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $522k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
  • Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
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Asuka Holding
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Asuka Holding is a principal investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • WorkIndia — Our Vision: Work India’s vision is to provide sustainable livelihoods for the 23.7 Cr blue-collar individuals of India and now the 120 Cr blue-collar individuals in this World.WorkIndia is a technology venture based in the mixed collar space (between white and blue-collar space) of the recruitment industry. We aim to connect the right employersto the right employees.In the mixed collar space ( bpo jobs, delivery jobs, accountant jobs, retail jobs, back-office jobs, etc.) getting jobs in thane and getting employees in thane both is a tiresome process. The mixed collar space seeks a solution that simplifies the process for both the employer side and the employee side.Our Product: We have created a mobile application for candidates to apply for the job they would like to do and for Employers who seek their desired candidates. Candidates with this app can look for a suitable job and apply for it in a single click. Rest all the work of checking the eligibility of an employee until scheduling the interview is done by our 100% automated product.
  • Cube — Cube is enabling everyone to invest in the simplest manner possible along with guidance from the world’s top performing investment managers - the same that guide the world’s richest families. The service is already live in India, and soon to be available across USA and multiple Asian countries. Cube has an experienced team that comes from theworld of fintech, entrepreneurship, design, systems, banking, and global sales. It is founded by Satyen Kothari, a battle scarred entrepreneur who is on his 5th adventure. He has previously founded Citrus Pay in India and three companies in the Silicon Valley. Citrus was sold in 2016 in India’s largest fintech cash deal at the time and was processing $2 bn at its peak and servicing 20 mn users.
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And Factory
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

And factory is a smartphone business company that works on different service applications centered on the smartphone business. It develops applications that connect users and services at and factory, which challenges the possibilities of smartphones. The company mainly develops tool-based apps, game capture board apps, and manga apps.And factorywas founded in September 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series B $38M–$156M; Corporate Round $28M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AIQ — AIQ is a Artificial intelligence technology development
  • Mirror Fit — MIRROR FIT provides online fitness services. MIRROR FIT features include AI-assisted high-level form checks, game-like exercises, communication with friends, and positive support. They have programmes for novices and advanced users. It includes content such as live lessons from popular trainers, personal training, and over 300 different types ofon-demand classes.
  • Skyfall — Skyfall is a media business and internet advertising company. It is an online advertising platform for online marketing, internet advertising, digital advertising, and web advertising which uses the internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.
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Shoji Kodama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Minoru Moriya
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Kenji Endo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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OKB Capital
VC Fund · Gifu, Gifu, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

OKB Capital seeks to invest in companies aiming to go public and gives advice on capital policy. OKB Capital supports the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$47M; Series A $2.3M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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Fukuoka Financial Group
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Fukuoka Financial Group provides banking and financial services that contributes to the development of the regional economy.It operates through the Banking and Others divisions. The Banking division offers deposits, loans, and domestic and foreign exchange services. The Others division provides guarantees, business revitalization support,receivable management, and collection services. The company was founded on April 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Content, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Waak — Waak is a manufacturer and designer of home and office furniture. Their products include tables, chairs, desks, and other furniture, including waakdesks, waakables, and desk types A and B.
  • CellAxia — drug discovery bio-venture aiming at practical application of advanced research such as cell therapy .
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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Japan startup support Association
VC Fund · Ikeda, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Japan startup support Association is a management support association specialized for startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tear Exo — Tear Exo is a biotechnology research company that produces and sells liquid biopsy using materials for molecular recognition.
  • Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
  • LiveYourDreams — LiveYourDreams offers video media, robotics workshop and AI technology services.
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Sea Forest Circulation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
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Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Apps, Content
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
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FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups, 9 in the past 12 months

FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FELIQS — FELIQS is a preclinical-stage start-up company established based on the robust science from molecular pathobiology, department of pharmaceutical science, Kyushu university.
  • ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
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Safie Ventures
VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

Safie Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that uses video to innovate across industries and aims to impact the world through partnerships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Voxela — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Fitness startups

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
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Fitness Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 49 deals from 139 investors.

139
investors
in Japan Fitness startups
49
deals
in Japan Fitness startups
$12M
median round
in Japan Fitness startups
9%
lead investors
lead at least one round
35%
Seed
most common funding stage
84/16
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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