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Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Food and Beverage startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Food and Beverage startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yu Akasaka
Angel
6 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
4 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $2.8M–$28M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
4 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content $968k–$326M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $482k–$30M
Ken Soga
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D Music, Content, E-Commerce $457k–$9.9M
Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech $1M–$4.5M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Content, Information Technology, Travel $700k–$75M
Toru Shimada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Task Management, Content $553k–$68M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$47M
Chikako Morimoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed Employment, Human Resources, Marketing $9.1M–$26M
Dai Tamesue
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Sports, Health Care
Koji Yamada
Angel
2 Japan Seed Software, Logistics, E-Commerce $457k–$2.1M
Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
2 Japan Seed Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce $16M–$18M
Masaru Tange
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Food Delivery $3.2M–$43M
Goshi Yamaguchi
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round Digital Media, Food and Beverage, Apps
Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Health Care, Fitness, Medical $3.3M–$43M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Yoshifumi Nakatani
Angel
1 Japan Seed Software, Logistics, Food Delivery
Kino Nobukuni
Angel
1 Japan Seed Food and Beverage
Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Content, Fashion
Kohei Matsumoto
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Food Processing, AgTech, Farming
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
Hiroaki Watatani
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, Software, Logistics
Takashi Nagao
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SNS, Video, Brewing
Takuya Noguchi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet $2.6M–$4.3M
Naoki Yamada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Sports
Tsuyoshi Ide
Angel
1 Japan Pre-Seed Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Noboru Hachimine
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sales, Wholesale, Consulting
Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan Angel Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Hayama Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Beauty, Medical
Yuri Ueda
Angel
1 Japan Seed Nutrition, Health Care, Food Processing
Tomohito Ebine
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
Seio Nagami
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Task Management, SaaS, Legal $14M–$14M
Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology $804k–$73M
Sota Horiuchi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, Food and Beverage
Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
1 Japan, India Seed Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS $800k–$7.6M
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources $553k–$30M
Takashi Mitachi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A SNS, Brewing, Employment
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion $2.8M–$28M
Mr Maru
Angel
1 Japan Seed Organic, Residential, Waste Management
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$18M
Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel SNS, Video, Beauty $7.1M–$68M
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps $2.1M–$14M
Shota Horii
Angel
1 Japan Seed Internet, Information Technology, Art $786k–$14M
Yoshiki Ishikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Marketing, Health Care, Video Editing $16M–$18M
Jun Ogawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Software, Education, Information Technology $2.1M–$20M
Yusuke Umeda
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Communities, Food Processing
Yosuke Iwai
Angel
1 Japan Angel Cooking
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$68M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $15M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$326M; Angel $2.8M–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • 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.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
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Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
  • RootWave — RootWave is an electronics company that develops tools that kill weeds it enables farmers to control weeds on their farm. Its technology is an alternative substitute for herbicides and other weed control chemicals. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • CAN EAT
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Employment, Human Resources, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $9.1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Dai Tamesue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • SAMURAI Security
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Koji Yamada
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Participated in the management of a student venture company while attending Keio University's Faculty of Policy Management. After graduation, he worked at Accenture Co., Ltd. for consulting services for companies in different industries such as media, apparel, finance and entertainment. In 2012, founded boundary spanner Co., Ltd. He alsoserved as a project manager for JAPAN CON-TECH FUND and a director of the Japan Home Party Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$28M; Series A $21M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • EMET Creation — Vimet is a video app that allows you to instantly watch your favorite topic videos.ViMET offers high-quality video content that is currently talked about, Realizing a world where everyone can see, by providing new services, Restructure the power relationships of all players involved in existing video
  • S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
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Goshi Yamaguchi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Goshi Yamaguchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ReadHub — ReadHub is a Information technology , Planning, development and management of Internet media and applications company.
  • 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.
  • ZAZA — ZAZA is focus to make the world where people can respect each other even thought they have a different culture and belief.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
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Yoshifumi Nakatani
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yoshifumi Nakatani is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Kino Nobukuni
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Kino Nobukuni

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Kohei Matsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Kohei Matsumoto - Operating Officer @ Oisix ra daichi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food Processing, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Honestfood — Honestfood is a Planning,manufacturing and sales of pet food.They sell domestic, additive-free, grain-free pet food. While meeting the three points of “no additives suspected” “do not use suspicious ingredients” “proper nutrition balance for cats”, “the cost also want to keep it” products that fulfill the condition, the company's pet foodIt is“Regalie”
  • Impact Food — Say hello to reimagined seafood specially crafted for your taste buds and made completely with plants.
  • RT Corporation — RT Corporation specializes in providing service robots in variety of domestic and international fields. Along with the arrival of AI and the rise in robot popularity, they strive to respond to the domestic and international needs of service robots. The company is known as manufacturer of RIC90, RT-ADK/RT-ADS, GAINER mini and micromouse kit.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Hiroaki Watatani
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Hiroaki Watatani is the president of ASAKASHINKAN GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TunaGate — TunaGate is a circle community site that boasts the largest number of registrations in Japan.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Takashi Nagao
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Takashi Nagao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Video, Brewing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FromTo — FromTo offers construction services.
  • Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
  • FLATBOYS — FLATBOYS specializes in planning, development and operation of internet business.
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Takuya Noguchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Takuya Noguchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Food and Beverage, Pet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tricot — Tricot is a food and beverage company.
  • FLATBOYS — FLATBOYS specializes in planning, development and operation of internet business.
  • Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Naoki Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Naoki Yamada

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
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Tsuyoshi Ide
Angel · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Tsuyoshi Ide is the Chairman, President, and CEO of Daiz Energy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DAIZ — DAIZ produces and sells plant-based meat, 'Miracle Meat' which uses germinated soybeans by the proprietary 'Ochiai Germination Method.' Also, DAIZ engages in research & development of raw materials and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
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Noboru Hachimine
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Noboru Hachimine - President & Founder @ OPT

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sales, Wholesale, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • For Crafts — 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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Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
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Hayama Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Beauty, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
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Yuri Ueda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yuri Ueda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nutrition, Health Care, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LacuS — LacuS is a food technology company, develops and sells complete nutrition ice cream, provides nutritious food option for people of all ages.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Seio Nagami
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Seio Nagami

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, SaaS, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Stock — Stock develops products that relieve the stress of sharing information from teams around the world.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $804k–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
  • Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
  • 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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Sota Horiuchi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Sota Horiuchi (Tokyo) joined KKR in 2008. He has been involved with the investments in Intelligence, Panasonic Healthcare and Pioneer DJ. Prior to joining KKR, he was an associate at McKinsey & Company, based in Germany and Japan. He was involved in supporting a number of companies in developing their business strategy, including new marketentry and management improvement projects. He holds a B.A. with High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$7.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
  • Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
  • 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.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • SPeak — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Takashi Mitachi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Takashi Mitachi joined BCG in 1993 and is the head of BCG’s Japan operations. He leads the Strategy practice in Japan and is also a core member of the Financial Institutions, Marketing and Sales, and Organization practice areas.Takashi has led projects for Japanese and multinational clients in a wide range of financial and consumer industries.He has also written a book, The BCG Way – the Art of Strategic Insight, which focuses on how to develop capabilities to generate strategic insight.Before joining BCG, Takashi worked for 14 years at Japan Airlines, where his positions included manager of the corporate planning department at the head office in Tokyo. He holds an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School and a BA in American literature from the University of Kyoto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Brewing, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POL — Make academia open & cool.
  • Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $7.1M–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Mr Maru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Mr. Maru

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Organic, Residential, Waste Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • 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.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Video, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $33M–$68M; Angel $7.1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Saurus Japan
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
  • Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
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Shota Horii
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Shota Horii

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Art
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $786k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GMO Flatt Security — Flatt Security is a cyber security company for all developers.
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • UNDEFINED Japan — UNDEFINED is a very young team with an average age of about 20 years.We develop products for teenagers who make the most of their youth by working closely with users.
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Yoshiki Ishikawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Preventive medicine researcher, doctor (medicine). While specializing in behavioral science and data science, he has also worked as a director at several operating companies, in charge of founding and managing. In January 2019, he became an outside director of Sansan Corporation. In addition to knowledge in the field of data analysis andutilization, make recommendations based on the perspective of management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Video Editing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Jun Ogawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qurate Inc. (Japan) — Plan, create and manage all your content, across all your channels with all your teams. Try for free now.
  • Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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Yusuke Umeda
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yusuke Umeda is the Chief Executive Officer of Monochrome Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Communities, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • Break Sports — We are on a mission to empower anyone to become an athlete. We are doing this by building and online destination for players to discover and connect with competitive and recreational sport activities through one platform.
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Yosuke Iwai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Food and Beverage startups

Yosuke Iwai is Founder & CEO at repica.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cooking
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
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Food and Beverage Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 52 deals from 67 investors.

67
investors
in Japan Food and Beverage startups
52
deals
in Japan Food and Beverage startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Food and Beverage startups
4%
lead investors
lead at least one round
48%
Seed
most common funding stage

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