Top 50 Gaming VC Funds & Investors in Japan (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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22 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$198M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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18 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $473k–$35M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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17 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $330k–$75M |
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
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13 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $505k–$85M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $691k–$29M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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11 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Medical, Health Care | $413k–$41M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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11 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.5M–$184M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$269M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $317k–$57M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.4M–$109M |
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Future Food Fund
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, Denmark | Series A, Series B | Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing | $1.2M–$26M |
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $895k–$369M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.1M–$184M |
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | $1.4M–$7M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $565k–$71M |
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NOW Japan
VC Fund
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6 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Content, Software, Marketing | $771k–$30M |
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Agribusiness Investment Development
VC Fund
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6 | Japan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing | $1.4M–$31M |
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YJ Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $150k–$101M |
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Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
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5 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B | $621k–$4.4M |
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage | $730k–$57M |
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care | $772k–$50M |
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Coral Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $551k–$184M |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain | $1.4M–$120M |
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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, B2C | $544k–$3.6M |
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Miraidoa
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology | $186k–$16M |
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PE&HR
VC Fund
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5 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Fashion, Education | $474k–$31M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $458k–$30M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$213M |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $800k–$142M |
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Kajitsudo
VC Fund
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4 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food Processing, Food and Beverage | $33M–$43M |
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W ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Internet | $382k–$37M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $577k–$283M |
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Vector
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Corporate Round | Software, Internet, Marketing | $730k–$33M |
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Content | $613k–$52M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2.3M–$142M |
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Spiral Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet | $500k–$103M |
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Giftee
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Debt Financing | Internet, Marketing, CRM | $2.2M–$61M |
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Fundinno
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, France | Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding | Information Technology, Content, Health Care | $277k–$7.1M |
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AG Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Finance, Software, Internet | $1M–$71M |
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Kortschak Investments L.P.
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $50k–$14M |
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Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, India, United States | Seed, Corporate Round | Media and Entertainment, Content, Gaming | $1.5M–$255M |
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Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Taiwan | Seed, Series A | Video, Gaming, Content | $810k–$142M |
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F Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Service Industry | |
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Venture United
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Travel, Content | $39k–$30M |
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Marketing, Manufacturing | $2.6M–$142M |
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DIMENSION
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, India, Romania | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Content, Manufacturing | $895k–$1.1B |
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Saison Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Switzerland | Seed, Series B | Software, Finance, Internet | $113k–$425M |
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Colopl Next
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce | $900k–$30M |
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile | $535k–$51M |
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D4V
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $876k–$89M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 576
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
- 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.
- WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
- Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 523
- Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
- Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
- Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $505k–$33M; Series B $1.8M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- FullDepth — FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers towitness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers to witness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.
- Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
- Smart Craft —
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $691k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- 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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 269
- Round size: Seed $413k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
- Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
- Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 584
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 477
- Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 313
- Round size: Seed $317k–$17M; Series A $2.4M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — 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.
- Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 678
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$57M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
- Wonderplanet — Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.
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Browse database — It's Free!Future Food Fund is a corporate venture capital company that specializes in the field of food.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Food Processing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$26M; Series B $1.5M–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
- Mycoverse — Mycoverse is a agri-biotech startup specializes in developing fungal-based biological crop protection solutions to replace chemical pesticides, targeting row crops with an initial focus on potato late blight.
- GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $1M–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$32M; 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
- AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
- Solafune — Solafune integrates multi-domain intelligence across space, cyber, and physical layers to create actionable, sovereign decision systems.
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.9M; 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.
- HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
- Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
- Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
- Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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- Industry: Content, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $771k–$14M; Series A $1.8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
- 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.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
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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- 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.
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- 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 $1.4M–$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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Browse database — It's Free!UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $772k–$28M; Series A $2.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CastBio — Castbio specializes in antibody-drug conjugate-based drug discovery research and development. Along with medications, it also creates research reagents, medical equipment, in vitro diagnostic items, and offers drug discovery consulting.
- 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.
- IGrid Solutions — IGrid Solutions will promote “eDCM” to optimize power energy demand.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $551k–$27M; Series A $3.5M–$99M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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 a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$120M
- 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 — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- 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.
- GramEye — GramEye is a developer of medical equipment that uses robotics and deep learning to automate gram staining. The company operates under the assumption that the growth of germs that are resistant to antibiotics is a natural occurrence brought on by the usage of these medications. It aspires to a world in which antibiotics are correctly prescribed inall medical contexts. GramEye analyzes medical data, create web services, and create mobile applications as a health sciences company.
- Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $338k–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $186k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $474k–$4.5M; 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $458k–$30M; Series A $1.5M–$30M
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Series A $4M–$101M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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!
Kajitsudo is a production and sales of large-scale baby leaf.
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- 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 and development of raw materials, and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $382k–$17M; Series A $1.3M–$37M
- 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.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $577k–$26M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $3.1M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $730k–$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.
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $613k–$16M; Series A $2M–$45M; Series B $3.1M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Techtaka — SaaS, Logistics
- Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
- Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
- 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 — The foundational layer for institutional-grade tokenization, bridging multichain ecosystems with DeFi-ready assets.
giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.
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- Industry: Internet, Marketing, CRM
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$61M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
- KINCHAKU — KINCHAKU is a technology company that conducts research and development to increase the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises.
- PostCoffee — PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services.
Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Health Care
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
- Geography: Japan, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $277k–$7.1M; Product Crowdfunding $1.9M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atto — Atto operates in the healthcare and preventive medicine field as a technology venture. Its main business is the development, manufacturing, and sale of health inspection equipment. The core product is a capillary blood flow observation device called Kekkan Bijin. This device allows users to observe capillary blood flow simply by placing a finger onit, without any blood sampling.
- FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
- Novius Company — Official account. we develop glassless 3D tech using generative-AI From 2D To 3D Image conversion in real-time. and R&D Project #DWEN #CIC
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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- Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $1.9M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
- Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.5M; Angel $50k–$285k; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eeva — Revolutionizing laundry by reinventing the traditional machines we use
- Liferaft — Liferaft turns waste biomass into durable biochar for large-scale carbon capture and soil restoration.
- Cannae Holdings — The Investor Relations website contains information about Cannae Holdings, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$23M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $824M in 2017
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.
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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- Industry: Video, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $810k–$38M; Series A $5.7M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $294M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Breaker — Breaker is Japan's global digital studio.
- Mechu — ZIG operates VTuber fan club called “MeChu and debuts and produces 100 virtual YouTubers.
- New standard — NEW STANDARD Co., Ltd. moves society through three STUDIO businesses, and provides ideas that the millennials are enthusiastic and solutions for business issues for companies and brands.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$47M; Series A $2.6M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
- Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.
- Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Content, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Romania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$928M; Series B $895k–$1.1B
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $113k–$20M; Series B $1.2M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- 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.
Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- BitStar — BitStar is the EnterTech company that accelerates the growth of video creators and content with our proprietary data and technology.
- VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
- Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $535k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $10M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2015
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.
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $876k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- Free Standard — Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry.
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