Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)

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• Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
• Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
• Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.

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

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• Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
• SPACER — SPACER is a 24-hour handover IoT locker that can open and close doors with a smartphone.
• Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.

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

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• Sabu — Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry.
• Lanturn — Register your business in Singapore globally. From incorporation services Singapore to business registration for foreigners & locals, we handle it all.
• Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.

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

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• Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
• Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
• Okuma Diamond Device — Ookuma Diamond Device Co., Ltd. | Creating a next-generation semiconductor industry from Japan, driven by the mission to support the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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• Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
• Mycoverse — Mycoverse is a agri-biotech startup specializes in developing fungal-based biological crop protection solutions to replace chemical pesticides, targeting row crops with an initial focus on potato late blight.
• GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

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• AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
• HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
• Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.

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

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• 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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• Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
• KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
• Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.

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

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• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
• Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
• Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

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• STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
• SmartHR — SmartHR helps Japanese companies bring HR activities into the digital age. SmartHR makes HR simpler for Japanese companies by replacing spreadsheets and paperwork with a user-friendly online solution. When SmartHR was founded in Japan in 2013, on-boarding and off-boarding employees was a tedious process, especially since employers had to apply forsocial insurance and healthcare on behalf of employees using a process that had not yet been digitized. Today, SmartHR delivers massive savings for companies across diverse segments from high tech to retail by decreasing the time to complete HR processes like employment contracts down from one month to just 1-2 days. After catering to its initial offering to startups and small businesses, SmartHR is expanding its business to serve more enterprise customers.
• PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.

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• Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
• Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
• Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.

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• Near Intelligence — Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products is the global leader in Data Intelligence empowering organizations of all sizes to make smart, strategic decisions delivering optimal business performance. We unite Marketers and Operational data leaders by providing the most accurate, reliable source of data thatdelivers actionable insights on People, Places, and Products in both the physical and digital space.Near is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan Private Equity Group, Cisco Investments and Telstra Ventures. Visit www.near.com to find out more.
• Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
• Supercritical — We partner with industry to move and think beyond fossil fuels with innovative clean technology solutions.

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• Tear Exo — Tear Exo is a biotechnology research company that produces and sells liquid biopsy using materials for molecular recognition.
• TelaAxon — TelaAxon develops artificial intelligence technology for sustainable operations, enhancing human-AI coexistence, safety, and wellness.
• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.

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• Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
• Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.

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

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• Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
• Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
• Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.

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• Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
• pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.

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• 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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• Fragaria — Discover innovative farming practices and high-quality, year-round fruits in India with Fragaria's advanced agricultural technology.
• VeXeRe.Com — Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, banktransfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience.
• Instapay Technologies — Instapay is the only e-wallet in Malaysia to offer a corporate portal. It enables you to self-manage the salary payment process with greater visibility. It serves to streamline payroll processing within organizations while promoting finances.

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• Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
• 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.

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• Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
• AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

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• Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
• Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
• Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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• 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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• Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
• Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
• ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

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• Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
• Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.

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• Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
• Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
• GenerativeX — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

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• SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
• KINCHAKU — KINCHAKU is a technology company that conducts research and development to increase the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises.
• PostCoffee — PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services.

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• Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
• Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
• MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.

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• Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
• Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
• Delivered Korea — Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country.

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• CastBio — Castbio specializes in antibody-drug conjugate-based drug discovery research and development. Along with medications, it also creates research reagents, medical equipment, in vitro diagnostic items, and offers drug discovery consulting.
• Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
• Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.

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• Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
• 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.
• Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.

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• 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.
• Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
• ForestFolks — ForestFolks Provider of forest management and conservation services aimed at protecting forestry and the environment.The company exploits and successfully employs the forest's CO2 absorption potential and conserves and recovers forest resources and biodiversity, allowing for regulatory compliance and supporting environmental protection.

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• Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
• Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
• Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.

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• 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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• Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
• Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
• CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

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• YAGO — YAGO operates in the IT field and provides internet and software services.
• Nudge — Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.
• Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

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• Atto — Atto operates in the healthcare and preventive medicine field as a technology venture. Its main business is the development, manufacturing, and sale of health inspection equipment. The core product is a capillary blood flow observation device called Kekkan Bijin. This device allows users to observe capillary blood flow simply by placing a finger onit, without any blood sampling.
• FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
• Asian Bridge — ASIAN BRIDGE is a one-stop-shop for Japanese merchandise such as beauty care products, health foods, and clothing. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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• Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
• Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
• Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

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• ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
• SUN METALON — SUN METALON aims to create a world where metal products can be produced from local ores. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redondo Beach, California.
• BUGWORKS Research — Bugworks, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Harnessing the power of science to develop affordable, accessible, novel therapies against infectious disea

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• Univrs — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
• Monoun — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.
• SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.

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• Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
• Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
• Foodies Prime — Foods Prime provides restaurant reservations using a mobile app that includes tools for foodies to browse and invite dinner parties exclusively to members.

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• pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
• ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.

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

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• Sabu — Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry.
• Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
• Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.