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Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Gaming startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Gaming startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
20 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $952k–$269M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
16 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $382k–$99M
East Ventures
VC Fund
14 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $560k–$38M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
12 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.1M–$198M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
11 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $1.5M–$340M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
11 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
10 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $774k–$50M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$184M
ANRI
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $497k–$78M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $314k–$91M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $610k–$71M
Future Food Fund
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Denmark Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing $1.2M–$26M
JAFCO
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.9M–$198M
Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan Series A, Seed Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$28M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
6 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Software $771k–$30M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
6 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Agribusiness Investment Development
VC Fund
6 Japan Series A, Series B, Seed Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing $1.4M–$31M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $150k–$101M
Ceres
VC Fund
5 Japan, Singapore Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $3.3M–$50M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$184M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $730k–$57M
NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Food and Beverage, B2C $544k–$3.6M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
5 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
5 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $895k–$369M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $933k–$58M
W ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $696k–$64M
PE&HR
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $474k–$31M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$52M
Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B $621k–$4.4M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
4 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Kajitsudo
VC Fund
4 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Food Processing, Food and Beverage $33M–$43M
Vector
VC Fund
4 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $790k–$33M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $482k–$30M
Spiral Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology $500k–$103M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$227M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming $320k–$38M
Ken Soga
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D Music, Content, E-Commerce $457k–$9.9M
STRIVE
VC Fund
4 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$213M
Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Art, Software, Reservations $2.8M–$28M
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
3 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$28M
AG Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet
Venture United
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
3 Japan Series A, Seed Information Technology, Software, Consulting
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
3 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $480k–$18M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content $968k–$326M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore, Austria Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 553
  • Round size: Series A $952k–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is established to contribute to medical treatment for suffering patients, .
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 16 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$14M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
  • Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
  • AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 464
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$17M; Series A $2.2M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
  • FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
  • Bioma — Media Desa Terkini
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$33M; Series B $1.8M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
  • iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
  • Smart Craft
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 460
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$115M; Series B $2.4M–$340M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • NEXT NEW WORLD — NEXT NEW WORLD develops and manufactures natural products with low impact on the environment. It uses sustainable Japanese silk to manufacture apparel and cosmetic products.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 553
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $774k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 593
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$99M; Series B $4.3M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
  • iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
  • Base Food — Base Food produces high-quality, flavorful staple food products that are nutritionally-balanced and convenient.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Gaming startups

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Any Style
  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Seed $314k–$18M; Series A $2.7M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • Global Trust Networks — Global Trust Networks is a company that helps foreigners to live in Japan
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Future Food Fund
VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Future Food Fund is a corporate venture capital company that specializes in the field of food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$26M; Series B $1.5M–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Mycoverse — Mycoverse is a agri-biotech startup specializes in developing fungal-based biological crop protection solutions to replace chemical pesticides, targeting row crops with an initial focus on potato late blight.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
  • GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$170M; Series B $7M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

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  • EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
  • Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
  • Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $771k–$18M; Series A $1.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Agribusiness Investment Development
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$31M; Series B $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.9B in 2018

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 — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$39M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
  • TASIMOVF — TASIMOVF was created by leaders in the blockchain and AI industry to break barriers between the industries that should be symbiotic. After a raise between 20+ companies $TAF has $770,000 to allocate to our first hackathon on Virtuals
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$30M; Series A $2.7M–$99M; Series B $3.3M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $20M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $544k–$1.4M; Series A $1.2M–$1.7M; Series B $1.5M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
  • Varytex — Varytex is an herbal medicine tech company that offers diagnostic support software.
  • Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$26M; Series A $2M–$89M; Series B $895k–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $342M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Yuimedi — Yuimedi acquires, investigate, analyze medical data and provides accurate solutions.
  • Solafune — Solafune is a data science competition platform that leverage satellite and geospatial data.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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Miraidoa
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$30M; Series A $1.2M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $696k–$23M; Series A $1.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$9.9M; Series A $2.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
  • Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
  • Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund · Nishi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Lotte Ventures Japan supports and collaborates with businesses that embrace challenges and strive to build a better society in the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $621k–$1.4M; Series A $2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
  • Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
  • Crisp — CRISP SALAD WORKS offers a focused menu of signature salads and grains made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods on-site.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Kajitsudo
VC Fund · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Kajitsudo is a production and sales of large-scale baby leaf.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $33M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DAIZ — DAIZ produces and sells plant-based meat, 'Miracle Meat' which uses germinated soybeans by the proprietary 'Ochiai Germination Method.' Also, DAIZ engages in research & development of raw materials and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$33M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Spiral Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$62M; Series B $10M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fragaria — Discover innovative farming practices and high-quality, year-round fruits in India with Fragaria's advanced agricultural technology.
  • SPUN — The most reliable online visa platform in Indonesia with 24/7 dedicated assistance and money-back guarantee.
  • Pruv Finance
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 375
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$156M; Series B $4.9M–$227M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$38M; Angel $320k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Pretia Technologies — Pretia is a Internet service planning, development and operation business.
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
  • Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups, 11 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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Goals — Goals specializes in development, sales and operational support for cloud services for food service companies.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Gaming startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Gaming Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 739 deals from 954 investors.

954
investors
in Japan Gaming startups
739
deals
in Japan Gaming startups
$12M
median round
in Japan Gaming startups
23%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
86/14
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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