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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Japan in January 2025

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

Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Japan in January 2025

Investor Food and Beverage Japan investments
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 10
ANOBAKA 9
ANRI 8
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) 7
Kemuri Ventures 6
Future Food Fund 6
Yu Akasaka 6
East Ventures 6
Mizuho Capital 5
Nissay Capital 5
iSGS Investment Works 5
SMBC Venture Capital 5
PE&HR 5
Monex Ventures 4
Kajitsudo 4
Spiral Ventures 4
Coral Capital 4
Future Venture Capital 4
Ryosuke Matsumoto 4
Yusuke Sato 4
NOW Japan 4
W ventures 4
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 4
Agribusiness Investment Development 4
YJ Capital 4
Ceres 4
Vector 3
UntroD Capital 3
MTG Ventures 3
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 3
Beenos Partners 3
Hidetoshi Takano 3
Fundinno 3
Naruhisa Nakagawa 3
Genesia Ventures 3
Jun Nishikawa 3
Incubate Fund 3
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 3
Apricot Ventures 3
Real Tech Japan 3
VOYAGE VENTURES 3
BASE Partners 2
Coconala Skill Partners 2
JAFCO Group 2
Angel Bridge 2
Sansei Capital Investment 2
Yusuke Tanaka 2
Kazuma Ieiri 2
XTech Ventures 2
AgFunder 2
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 65 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, China
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • greenase — greenase is a manufacturer and seller of processed agricultural products.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 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
  • Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
  • Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 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
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
  • Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
Kemuri Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Future Food Fund VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Future Food Fund is a corporate venture capital company that specializes in the field of food.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Agriculture
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MeliBio — Discover MeliBio's innovative bee-free honey, promoting a sustainable future for humans and bees. Explore our mission, vision, and impact.
  • greenase — greenase is a manufacturer and seller of processed agricultural products.
  • LacuS — LacuS is a food technology company, develops and sells complete nutrition ice cream, provides nutritious food option for people of all ages.
Yu Akasaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
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.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 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
  • Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
  • Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
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
iSGS Investment Works VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter — 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.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 50 investments in the past 12 months
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Striemo — Striemo manufactures and develops electric personal mobility. Striemo was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Orbital Lasers — Orbital is a space tech company that provides space debris business to remove debris and a satellite LiDAR business to provide surface data.
  • RadioNano Therapeutics — RadioNano Therapeutics is developing innovative drugs for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), a type of radiation therapy that utilizes the nuclear reaction between thermal neutrons and boron-10 (¹⁰B) to destroy cancer cells by releasing alpha particles and lithium nuclei.
PE&HR VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Fashion, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
  • BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
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
  • Software, Financial Services, 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
  • MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision
Kajitsudo VC Fund · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Kajitsudo is a production and sales of large-scale baby leaf.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Spiral Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!
  • Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.
Coral Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
  • HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
  • Second Heart — Second Heart is a medical center that offers preventive diabetic care and awareness programs to avoid foot amputations.
Ryosuke Matsumoto Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Reservations, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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.
Yusuke Sato Angel
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • 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.
NOW Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Next One for the World.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
  • GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
  • HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
W ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.
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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.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Agribusiness Investment Development VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Agribusiness Investment Development is a venture capital firm that offers agriculture investment for agricultural corporations. It was established in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, B2B
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
YJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
Ceres VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
  • Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
UntroD Capital VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
  • Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.
MTG Ventures VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • knowuit — knowuit is a company that provides supply chain efficiency solutions to shippers. It develops and provides "Newit," a supply chain DX tool for shippers.
  • Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
  • Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • 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.
  • Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.
Beenos Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • 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.
Fundinno VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, Health Care
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding, Funding Round
  • Japan, France
Portfolio highlights
  • EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
  • Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
  • Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.
Naruhisa Nakagawa Angel
Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 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
  • 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.
  • Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
  • Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.
Jun Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, United States
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.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 29 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Kaguoku — Kaguoku develops and provides the AI-based home staging services. It offers a service that uses AI to process interior photos of real estate properties to increase the property's ability to attract customers.
  • Time Prediction — Time Prediction focuses on development of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical devices for the treatment of neurological diseases.
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Estie — Estie is a Development of AI / machine learning algorithm and new business in real estate company.
  • Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
  • Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
Apricot Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Apricot Ventures is a seed venture capital that mainly supports those who start businesses independently from large companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Real Tech Japan VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
VOYAGE VENTURES VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Content
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, China, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
BASE Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
BASE Partners is an independent venture capital organization organized by members who are professionals in each field such as managers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and accountants, and who are also entrepreneurs at the same time.Early and middle, mainly in the seed stage before and after the establishment. Up to the stage, we invest inall entrepreneurs and their challenges, and we also provide hands-on management support to startups that lack resources, experience and networks as well as funding.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Task Management, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Coconala Skill Partners VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 6 investments in the past 12 months
coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
JAFCO Group VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
  • Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
Angel Bridge VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
  • Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
Sansei Capital Investment VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, China, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
Yusuke Tanaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"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
  • Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Kazuma Ieiri Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Content, Fashion, Recruiting
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 19 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
  • &Jam — &Jam &Jam is a real social production that provides creative consultation services.
  • Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
  • Creator's X — Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation production assistance tools using AI.
AgFunder VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
  • Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
  • Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil
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