Top 50 Fitness Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $788k–$68M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $2.7M–$850M |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, France, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Software, Task Management, Internet | $3.1M–$99M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$142M |
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Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Singapore | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $2.5M–$55M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$213M |
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Zeroichi Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Music, Sales | $4.7M–$18M |
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STATION AI
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Drones | $700k–$47M |
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Health Care, Fitness, Medical | $3.3M–$43M |
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W ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Internet | $1.6M–$413M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$624M |
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NOBUNAGA Capital Village
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Content, Robotics | $885k–$928M |
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Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Content, Task Management, E-Learning | $2.4M–$3.1M |
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$142M |
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Gazelle Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $264k–$71M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$77M |
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START POINT
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Food Processing, EdTech, Fitness | |
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GLOBIS
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Pet, Apps | $16M–$50M |
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Shizen Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $440k–$1M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $1M–$64M |
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps | $2.1M–$14M |
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Chugoku Electric Power Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing | |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$397M |
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $775k–$45M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Consulting, SaaS, Home Services | $4.9M–$35M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$369M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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WERU Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $1.5M–$64M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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1 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Content, Sports, Apps | $1.4M–$221M |
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Optima Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Food Processing, Information Technology | |
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The Seed Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Information Technology, Consulting, Audio | $2.1M–$85M |
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Asia Venture Group
VC Fund
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1 | Malaysia, India, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Internet, Food and Beverage | $500k–$23M |
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Double Sharp Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Seed | Food Processing, Rental, Fitness | $108M–$425M |
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Aichi Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series C | SaaS, Consulting, Environmental Consulting | $1.6M–$92M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $522k–$99M |
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Asuka Holding
VC Fund
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1 | India, Japan | Seed, Series A | Sports, Banking, FinTech | $500k–$2M |
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And Factory
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Corporate Round, Series B, Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS | $28M–$156M |
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Shoji Kodama
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series B | Internet, Real Estate, Fashion | $14M–$14M |
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Minoru Moriya
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet | $5.7M–$14M |
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Kenji Endo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Fitness, Internet | |
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OKB Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech | $1.5M–$85M |
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Fukuoka Financial Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Recruiting, Content, Media and Entertainment | |
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Japan startup support Association
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Task Management | |
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Sea Forest Circulation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | SNS, Apps, Content | |
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FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Safie Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment | |
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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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- 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 .
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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- 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.
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".
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- 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.
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- 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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- 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.
Yasuyuki Kin
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- 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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- 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.
NOBUNAGA Capital Village is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in early-stage and later-stage companies.
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- 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.
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative is the company research and investing information.
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- 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.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- 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.
Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.
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- 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.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.
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- 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- 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
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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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- 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.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Optima Ventures is a company that invests and supports venture companies mainly in Shikoku.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Processing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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
The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- 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.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- 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
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Asuka Holding is a principal investment firm.
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- 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.
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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- 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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- 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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.
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- Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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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- 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
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Recruiting, Content, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Japan startup support Association is a management support association specialized for startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Task Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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- Industry: SNS, Apps, Content
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- 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.
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.
Show more...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
Fitness Investor funding in Japan at a glance
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