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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Japan

A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor Food and Beverage Japan investments
ANOBAKA 9
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 8
ANRI 8
East Ventures 6
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) 6
Kemuri Ventures 6
Yu Akasaka 6
PE&HR 5
SMBC Venture Capital 5
iSGS Investment Works 5
Monex Ventures 4
Nissay Capital 4
Coral Capital 4
Ryosuke Matsumoto 4
Yusuke Sato 4
YJ Capital 4
NOW Japan 4
W ventures 4
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 4
Mizuho Capital 4
Kajitsudo 4
Ceres 4
Vector 3
Fundinno 3
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 3
Incubate Fund 3
MTG Ventures 3
Spiral Ventures 3
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 3
Apricot Ventures 3
Beenos Partners 3
Hidetoshi Takano 3
VOYAGE VENTURES 3
Future Venture Capital 3
Real Tech Japan 3
Naruhisa Nakagawa 3
Jun Nishikawa 3
Agribusiness Investment Development 3
Genesia Ventures 3
Kazuma Ieiri 2
B Dash Ventures 2
XTech Ventures 2
AgFunder 2
Hiroaki Kitano 2
Chikako Morimoto 2
Komura Fujio 2
Femto Partners 2
NES Venture Capital 2
Akatsuki Games Inc. 2
A-Five 2
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ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 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
  • Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 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
  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
  • Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 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
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
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.
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 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, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.
Kemuri Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Restaurants
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
  • byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
  • Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
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.
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.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 48 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
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
iSGS Investment Works VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 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 — VIRUTUOUS CYCLE OF ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY
  • Gojo & Company — Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.
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
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 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, Medical, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Ethiopia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zpeer — Zpeer provides appropriate medical care to all livestock and companion animals
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Coral Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
  • HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
  • Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
Ryosuke Matsumoto Angel
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the founder and CEO of Community Factory Inc.Ryosuke is born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. He joined launching of the publication venture company, and ran a cafe while he was attending Chuo University in Tokyo. Since he joined launching the social media venture company in 2004, he has been in social media business. In2006, Ryosuke founded Community Factory Inc. which specialized in planning and operating social media and blog services.Community Factory started to specialize in social application for mobile from 2009, and Community Factory draw investments of around 4.5 million US dollars from venture capitals and mixi inc. then the biggest social media in Japan. DECOPIC, Community Factory's one of the apps for smartphone, has been downloaded 6 million times in the 6 months since its release, and it is rapidly gaining users mainly in Asian countries.In Sep 2012, Ryosuke and other stock holders sold Community Factory to Yahoo Japan Corp., and he remains as CEO of Community Factory.
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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
  • Kaymak — 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.
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
NOW Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • Geofra — 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 · 12 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, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Edukita — Belajar Bahasa Inggris jadi menyenangkan, interaktif, dan memberi hasil yang nyata. Diajar oleh guru asing berpengalaman.
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
  • Internet, Content, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 32 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
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
  • Yoriso — Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”.Yoriso was founded in 2009 and isheadquartered in Tokyo.
  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
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.
Ceres VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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 · 5 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
  • Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 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
  • Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
MTG Ventures VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 4 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
  • Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
  • Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
  • Lx Design — Lx Design is an application that connects schools with people who wants to work as a teacher.
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, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • BharatNXT — Make secure business payments with BharatNXT. Our platform offers services from Vendor payments to GST payments. Experience simple credit card payments for businesses. Get started today!
  • 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!
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 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, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
  • Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
  • Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.
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.
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 · 2 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, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 9 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, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
Real Tech Japan VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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.
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 that is built to simplify and accelerate carbon reduction, lighting the path toward 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.
Jun Nishikawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ eureka, Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • 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.
Agribusiness Investment Development VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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.
  • Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 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
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Oyraa Inc. — Oyraa provides online meetings and conference apps. Their interpreters will help you communicate not only in business but also in personal situations, such as in hospitals and real estate agencies.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
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.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
  • Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 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
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
  • RENDEZ-VOUS — RENDEZ-VOUS offers a co-ownership option for vintage cars.
AgFunder VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 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, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Sylvarum — We improve the performance of hydroponic crops by hacking their metabolic system.
  • BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
  • Plantik Biosciences — Plantik develops resilient crops through next-generation plant engineering technologies.
Hiroaki Kitano Angel
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Japan, United States
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.
Chikako Morimoto Angel
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Komura Fujio Angel
Komura Fujio
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Investment focus
  • Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan
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.
Femto Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The fund will invest in early-stage venture companies in the Internet sector, which are engaged in platform businesses and financial services. The amount of per-company equity investment will be in the range of between ¥10 million ($.098 million) and ¥300 million ($2.95 million). The fund is also characterized by the practical support for growingcompanies that will be provided by Mr. Isozaki. Shinsei Bank will dispatch personnel to the fund in order to jointly assist Mr. Isozaki in order to source venture companies and maximize their corporate value.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Communities, Location Based Services
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ivry — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
NES Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Web3
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • YADOKARI — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • SHINSEKAI Technologies — SHINSEKAI Technologies focuses on supporting companies, enabling them to advance their services to Web3 and NFT technologies.
Akatsuki Games Inc. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
  • MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
A-Five VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A-Five is a government fund that creates employment opportunities in rural areas.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, 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.
  • Izumi Holdings — Izumi Holdings create an OS for food distribution and deliver richness to the world with new infrastructure.In other words, Izumi having a trading account for each fishery company, livestock company, and agriculture company for one sales destination can easily lead to business expansion,to rationalization of sales and distribution, reduction of SG& A expenses, etc. Creating a competitive advantage
  • Routrek Networks — Routrek is a manufacturing and sales of ICT next generation hydroponic cultivation system.
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