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Top 50 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fitness startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025

Investor Fitness Japan investments
Genesia Ventures 4
Mizuho Capital 3
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
Susquehanna International Group 2
XTech Ventures 2
W ventures 2
Zeroichi Capital 2
ANRI 2
STATION AI 2
Asia Venture Group 1
Accord Ventures 1
GLOBIS 1
WERU Investment 1
Asuka Holding 1
Meinan M&A 1
Optima Ventures 1
Japan startup support Association 1
Dawn Capital 1
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation 1
And Factory 1
Double Sharp Partners 1
Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund 1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
Money Forward Venture Partners 1
Gazelle Capital 1
ANOBAKA 1
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting 1
B Dash Ventures 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank 1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 1
NOBUNAGA Capital Village 1
START POINT 1
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative 1
Nissay Capital 1
Deportare Partners 1
The Seed Capital 1
Chugoku Electric Power Group 1
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company 1
Sea Forest Circulation 1
Shizen Capital 1
Safie Ventures 1
Suzuyo 1
Monex Ventures 1
Leo Sophia 1
Archetype Ventures 1
One Capital 1
Dual Bridge Capital 1
Aichi Capital 1
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Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 45 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Quemix — Quemix is an IT company specialized in providing quantum computing solutions.
  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
  • RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Susquehanna International Group VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • Sporttrade — Sporttrade is a marketplace. We're the only regulated prediction market for betting. We make it easy to place, track, and sell your bet to make a profit.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
W ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
  • Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
Zeroichi Capital VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Apps, Fitness, Wellness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • CrossVision — CrossVision offers solutions and services specific to the VTuber market.
  • WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business
STATION AI VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Sustainability
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
  • Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
Asia Venture Group VC Fund · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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
  • E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Malaysia, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • 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
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.
GLOBIS VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Manufacturing, Pet, Sustainability
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
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.
WERU Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Information Technology, Consulting, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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.
Asuka Holding VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Asuka Holding is a principal investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
  • 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.
Meinan M&A VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Meinan M & A is a M & A company in the Tokai area. It is committed to the local community, and M & A rooted in the region through partnerships with financial institutions in the Tokai area.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, AgTech, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KAERU — KAERU offers financial and payment services to make shopping more convenient.
  • Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
  • Spacewasp — Spacewasp provides plant-derived interior spaces made from all kinds of plants.
Optima Ventures VC Fund · Matsuyama, Tokyo, Japan
Optima Ventures is a company that invests and supports venture companies mainly in Shikoku.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Food Processing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
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
Japan startup support Association VC Fund · Ikeda, Osaka, Japan
Japan startup support Association is a management support association specialized for startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Dawn Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Dawn Capital is a representation of new values being created for a new era, which brightens the globe by supporting and investing in start-up businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
Portfolio highlights
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation VC Fund · Nakamura, Nagano, Japan
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co. Ltd. operates as a venture capital company. The Company provides small businesses investments, medium size businesses investments, and other businesses. Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation serves customers throughout Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Video, Drones
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • GRA&GREEN — GRA&GREEN is a research and development agribio venture based in Japan
  • Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
And Factory VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS
  • Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore
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.
Double Sharp Partners VC Fund · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Food Processing, Rental, Fitness
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan
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.
Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan
The Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund works with startups to bring about innovations greater than what Paramount Bed would be able to create on its own.
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Investment focus
  • CRM, SaaS, Medical
  • Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Wellness, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
  • MagicPod Japan — MagicPod provides an automation cloud service through AI technology. MagicPod was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Gazelle Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Fitness, Software
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
  • DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
  • Codeless Technology — Codeless Technology is a software development company that helps businesses save time, reduce errors, and improve overall efficiency.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting is a commercial broadcasting services provider.
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Investment focus
  • Video Editing, Media and Entertainment
  • Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • FIREBUG — FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, United States
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
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 15 investments 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
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
  • aiESG — aiESG offers an AI platform that conducts ESG assessments of supply chains and facilitates an in-depth sustainability evaluation.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Health Care
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
  • Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
  • Japan Tobacco — Japan Tobacco operates diverse businesses across the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and processed food sectors.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 70 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
NOBUNAGA Capital Village VC Fund · Gifu, Gifu, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
NOBUNAGA Capital Village is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in early-stage and later-stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Fitness, Medical
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
START POINT VC Fund · Minami, 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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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, EdTech, Fitness
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
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.
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative VC Fund
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative is the company research and investing information.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Task Management, E-Learning
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
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.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Deportare Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sports x Technology
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sportip — Sportip provides motion analysis and posture analysis applications for trainers and therapists.
The Seed Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Audio, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Trifa — Trifa is a telecommunications service provider that provides eSIM internet access when traveling internationally.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • Resta — Resta manages an IT-based business that specializes in assisting people with impairments.
Chugoku Electric Power Group VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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
  • Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Apps, Content
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Sea Forest Circulation VC Fund
Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
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.
Shizen Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Fitness
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
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.
  • Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
Safie Ventures VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
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.
Suzuyo VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions. The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Consulting
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan
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.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
  • GROWTH VERSE — GROWTH VERSE is a developer of Aimstar an all-in-one tool that offers data integration, analysis, and policy implementation services.
Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
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
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, China
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
  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Leo Sophia VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Leo Sophia is a business development company that offers business promotion, internet media, real estate sales and promotion services.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Fitness, Marketing
  • Seed, Debt Financing
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • NAKD — NAKD is a fitness company that provides personalized training to help individuals achieve their health and fitness goals.
  • Idea Record — Idea;record specializes in web marketing, cloud services, and ICT solutions. They are creating a SaaS firm that will generate revenue. GATE is a SaaS that solves challenges for restaurant businesses and solutions to multiple problems faced by stores.
Archetype Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • YourTrade — ONE KEY TO GLOBAL TRADE
  • Hubble — Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents
One Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
  • MagicPod Japan — MagicPod provides an automation cloud service through AI technology. MagicPod was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Dual Bridge Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Dual Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • OMO — OMO is a hybrid online and offline used goods buying support service,
  • BRAND PORT — BRAND PORT a company engaged in M&A and development of consumer goods brands.
  • Dr.’s Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
Aichi Capital VC Fund · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
  • 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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