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Top 50 Health Care Startup Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Health Care startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Health Care startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
56 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$38M
ANRI
VC Fund
49 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $268k–$41M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
41 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$51M
Fast Track Initiative, Inc.
VC Fund
36 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $345k–$117M
UntroD Capital
VC Fund
34 Japan, Singapore, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care $316k–$15M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
32 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $457k–$21M
JAFCO
VC Fund
27 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$71M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
26 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $661k–$47M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
24 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$45M
Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
23 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $480k–$17M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
23 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $900k–$20M
Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
21 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $826k–$41M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
21 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$20M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
20 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$48M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
17 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $482k–$42M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
16 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $1.9M–$60M
DBJ Capital
VC Fund
16 Japan, United States, Australia Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$57M
Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
15 Japan, Singapore, Austria Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics $316k–$21M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
14 Japan, United States, Myanmar Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology $96k–$11M
FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund
14 Japan, Indonesia, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $547k–$50M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
14 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
East Ventures
VC Fund
13 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$30M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
13 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $480k–$11M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
12 Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $212k–$13M
Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund
11 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Medical, Software $91k–$51M
Japan Science and Technology Agency
VC Fund
11 Japan Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing $1.4M–$18M
Miyako Capital
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology $395k–$150M
MIRAI SOUZOU
VC Fund
10 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Manufacturing, Robotics, Software $300k–$11M
Antler
VC Fund
10 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
10 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $356k–$47M
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $482k–$17M
Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Mobile $793k–$50M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $468k–$184M
KSP
VC Fund
9 Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Medical
Tohoku University Venture Partners
VC Fund
9 Japan, China Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology $271k–$8.8M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $310k–$9.2M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
8 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Consulting $648k–$47M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $351k–$52M
JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund
8 Japan, Singapore, United States Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, Medical $4.3M–$77M
Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical $389k–$20M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $275k–$5M
ASICS Ventures Corporation
VC Fund
7 Japan, India, Canada Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence $918k–$15M
UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing $367k–$33M
D4V
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $292k–$14M
Central Japan Seed Fund
VC Fund
7 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $868k–$6.6M
REVIC
VC Fund
7 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series C Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical $15k–$27M
Tsukuba Institute of Research
VC Fund
7 Japan Series A, Seed Medical, Manufacturing, Health Care $953k–$7.1M
Glocalink
VC Fund
7 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Robotics, Biotechnology $43k–$3.3M
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 56 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 668
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M 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.
  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • 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.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 49 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$9.9M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $616k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
  • Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 41 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 652
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$51M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • 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.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
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Fast Track Initiative, Inc.
VC Fund · Hongo, Tokyo, Japan · 36 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Fast Track Initiative is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences and healthcare services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $345k–$117M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $4.7M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $124M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • Storm Therapeutics — Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 34 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 14 in the past 12 months

UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$6M; Series A $2.1M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $451k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Teragen Energy — Teragen Energy develops an energy technology platform based on advanced regenerative solid oxide fuel cells that provide both power generation and energy storage in a single system. The company’s systems generate electricity from external fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen without combustion and can operate in reverse to store power as hydrogen.Teragen designs modular systems that can be scaled from megawatt-scale installations for data centers to deployments for microgrids, renewable projects, and utilities. Its technology is intended to help operators manage variable renewable output, ride through outages, and address daily capacity needs using one device. Teragen focuses on applications including AI and cloud data centers, manufacturing and cold storage facilities, remote communities, and electric grid infrastructure. The platform is positioned to replace separate diesel generators and battery systems by combining fuel-flexible generation and low-cost storage in a compact footprint.
  • IGrid Solutions — IGrid Solutions will promote “eDCM” to optimize power energy demand.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 32 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 306
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum 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.
  • Global Trust Networks — GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 27 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 337
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$71M; Series B $5M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M 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.
  • 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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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 537
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$41M; Series B $2.4M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M 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.
  • Paytner — Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
  • AOI Biosciences — AOI Biosciences is a biotechnology company that creates testing and drug discovery businesses.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 23 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $685k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Toregem BioPharma — Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia. Toregem BioPharma is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in Japan Health Care startups

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$18M; Series B $2.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $326M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $826k–$14M; Series A $2.2M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 376
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$10M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024

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.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 795
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025

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.
  • Valt Japan — VALT JAPAN is a social business compan that continues to pursue solutions to social issues.
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 17 investments in Japan Health Care startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 392
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • trippiece — Trippiece is a service that allows you to share your travel plans on the web.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 16 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 452
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$29M; Series B $4.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M 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.
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 12 in the past 12 months

DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$57M; Series B $4.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Creattura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
  • Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Robotics
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $316k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $438k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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 provides labor-saving solutions that promote productivity improvement and reduce the burden on workers at construction sites. The company contributes to the evolution and development of the construction industry. The objective of Ken Robotec is to create a joyful construction site where robots and humans may collaborate.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
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Miraidoa
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 14 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$5.3M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $96k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.5M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
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FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 14 investments in Japan Health Care startups

FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $706k–$50M; Series A $1.2M–$8.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $547k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • MW — MW is a smart home solution company that develops smart residential physical AI, robotics, and home design services.
  • InsightX — InsightX is a technology platform focused on empowering businesses by simplifying complex processes and enabling smarter, more personalized user experiences.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
  • 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.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 661
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$6.2M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • 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.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in Japan Health Care startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $549k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • 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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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 70 in the past 12 months

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 380
  • Round size: Seed $282k–$1.6M; Debt Financing $212k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
  • Xperisus — Xperisus provides solutions to government agencies and local governments, such as support for the development of value-added experiences.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
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Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on startups in the healthcare industry.Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital that operates a venture fund specializing in the healthcare field. It is the only healthcare-specialized VC in Japan that can provide 30 medical institutions as a business trialfield.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $91k–$1.1M; Series A $1.5M–$51M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • A-SEEDS — A-SEEDS, an innovative biotech company sprouted from Shinshu University, is dedicated to pioneering advanced treatments for life-threatening cancers. Harnessing the potential of non-viral genetic engineering, our cutting-edge immune cell therapy opens up new horizons of hope for patients seeking effective and transformative solutions.
  • Do. Sukasu — Do. Sukasu is a software company that specializes in the development of visual space perception ability for brain science approaches.
  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
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Japan Science and Technology Agency
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization of science and technology that implements science and technology policy in Japan.  It handles many projects, including the government’s Science and Technology Basic Plan and knowledge creation. The European Sustainability School ESSSR is the owner of Japan Science and TechnologyAgency.Japan Science and Technology Agency undertakes its task in a comprehensive manner. It also works to provide a sound infrastructure of science and technology information and raise awareness and understanding of science and technology-related issues in Japan.Japan Science and Technology Agency is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Triorb — The corporate website of TriOrb Inc., revolutionizing production lines with our ball-driven omnidirectional mobility platform.
  • ANRis — ANRis is a hybrid drug discovery venture that develops medicines to provide medical care for patients with cancer and genetic diseases.
  • Solaris — Solaris commercializes, manufactures, and sells soft robotics using pneumatic artificial muscles. Solaris was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Miyako Capital
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF). The company was founded in 2013 and based in Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan. Investment fields are: 1) Life Science, Biotechnology: Drug creation, regenerative medicine, medical beauty equipment, medical services.2) Agri-Food: Industrialization,agricultural and fishery products growth-promoting technology, specified health food, health food.3) Environment, Energy: Alternative energy, and related technologies.4) IT, Electronics: Web, mobile related devices and application, telecommunication technology, security, consumer and business oriented application, mechatronic, robot.5) New services utilizing state-of-art technology.Investment stages: Primary investment stages are initial-growth stages of seed and early. However, we aim at all growth stages and make investment in post-IPO portfolio companies as well as public companies that are related with Kyoto University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $395k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$28M; Series B $3.7M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $91M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Mui Lab — Mui is an aesthetically-pleasing wooden IoT device connected to a cloud service. By accessing information through natural wood, we can rethink a new type of lifestyle.
  • 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.
  • XFOREST Therapeutics — xFOREST Therapeutics develops a drug discovery platform that targets RNA structures.
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MIRAI SOUZOU
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Health Care startups

MIRAI SOUZOU operates as a venture capital firm that invests in institutional lookup and supporting projects. The Company invests in institutional research and development supporting projects, medicine, agriculture, ocean field, and other industries. Innovations and Future Creation conducts businesses in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.7M; Series A $1.7M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $887k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Singular Machines — Singular Machines is an engineering automation company that provides solutions to engineering issues.
  • Equitas Medical Co. — Equitas Medical provides management support for clinics, including operational improvement, strategic planning, recruitment, digital transformation, and back-office administration. It supports business succession for clinic owners by providing transition options intended to maintain patient and staff continuity. The company also promotes healthcaredigital transformation through AI, cloud services, remote-care tools, hospital real-world data use, and medical department digitalization. Its services are intended for healthcare professionals, clinic owners, and healthcare organizations.
  • Trash Technologies — Trash Technologies is an AI-powered sustainability company focusing on sourcing recycled materials with cost-offsetting benefits.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 10 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2377
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$590k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
  • Neighbourhood — Neighbourhood transform unused spaces in restaurants, hotels and residences, into local hubs for co-working, creating and collaborating.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Health Care 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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M 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.
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care 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: 323
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$12M; Series B $2.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GAAAT — GAAAT created unique artwork in partnership with a major Japanese IP content provider and hosted an art event in New York.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • Smart Craft —
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $793k–$14M; Series A $893k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $99M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
  • Trash Technologies — Trash Technologies is an AI-powered sustainability company focusing on sourcing recycled materials with cost-offsetting benefits.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 8 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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $468k–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$41M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6M in 2026

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.
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KSP
VC Fund · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care startups

KSP, Inc. is the core business entity responsible for operating the Kanagawa Science Park (KSP) and has accepted the challenge of creating new industries through the support, development, and incubation of venture businesses. We provide a variety of business support services that best meet the needs of venture businesses in each stage of theirbusiness growth, ranging from the processes of startup and growth to public offerings. Several hundreds of new startup companies have been created and nurtured since its foundation. An incubation manager (IM) acts as a coordinator and provides a variety of support services to a venture company to help them successfully launch and develop their new business, such as offering individual consultations and a variety of information or advice. KSP, Inc. is well poised to cope with the varying needs of new ventures for highly sophisticated, specialized tasks by offering a business school, business support center, business matching services, and investment funds.The public sector, such as the Kanagawa prefectural government, Kawasaki city government, and the Development Bank of Japan, Inc., has an equity participation in KSP, thus playing a vital role in the deployment of local industrial development policy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • Mira Robotics — Mira Robotics is a software based company provide services that can robots in various fields.
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Lifetime Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
  • Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
  • Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.
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Tohoku University Venture Partners
VC Fund · Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Health Care startups

THVP is a venture capital corporation for startup innovation. It was established in 2015 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $271k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$7.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $459k–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Koeda — KOEDA is researching and developing medical devices that are safe, painless, and easy to use for acute cholecystitis. KOEDA will transform the management of cholecystitis. So far, endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) has been a notably difficult procedure carried out by skilled doctors at specific advanced centers. Althoughinserting a tube into the gallbladder is less invasive, it is complex, and there may be concerns regarding bile leakage. By combining clinical expertise with precision engineering, KOEDA addresses a clearly defined medical need in a growing global market and is currently moving forward on schedule for regulatory clearance and commercialization.
  • Scohia Pharma — Scohia Pharma is a biotech venture that will have both substantial research and development resources and be nimble enough to make decisions quickly, will strive to improve patient quality of life by providing patients and healthcare professionals with new therapeutic medications for renal, metabolic.
  • SiccaNova Therapeutics — SiccaNova Therapeutics is a Japanese biopharmaceutical company dedicated to treating sicca (dryness) related medical conditions. The company’s lead drug candidate, XF8302, is a novel, small-molecule M3 muscarine receptor Positive Allosteric Modulator (M3 PAM). Developed initially for dry mouth in Sjögren’s syndrome patients, the drug enhancesnatural acetylcholine signaling to stimulate salivation without the systemic side effects common in traditional agonists.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $310k–$1.3M; Series A $1.1M–$6.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $910k–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 17 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, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$19M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
  • Paytner — Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $351k–$3.1M; Series A $1.3M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $625k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups

JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Series B $4.7M–$52M; Series C $4.3M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B 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.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • Strand Therapeutics — Clinical-stage biotech developing breakthrough mRNA therapeutics with targeted delivery systems for solid tumors, autoimmune diseases, and blood cancers.
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Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Animal Spirits is an investment firm that raises funds for seed and early-stage startups and provides relevant advisory services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $389k–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $973k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kikuvi — Kikuvi develops an AI-driven interview agent that automates question design, execution, and analysis. It eliminates the effort of listening, allowing users to focus their time on decision-making and creativity.
  • Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
  • Your Neighboring Company — Kimi no Tonari is a Nagoya-based startup specializing in the development and operation of the AI fortune-telling app "Uracchi"
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 12 in the past 12 months

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $365k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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ASICS Ventures Corporation
VC Fund · Kobe, Kyoto, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.3M; Series A $918k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • RebuilderAI — A new way to bring imagination into the real world
  • Pickleball One — Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world.
  • Digital Entertainment Asset — DEA is an Entertainment Solution Company that continues to propose next-generation solutions to challenges through Web3, gaming mechanisms, and the utilization of DePIN.
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 10 in the past 12 months

The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$1.2M; Series A $1.8M–$9.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dwilar — Dwilar is an AI-powered global credit platform that unifies credit data across borders. We provide instant credit assessments, global score conversion, and compliance-driven onboarding to help people access banking, rentals, and loans worldwide.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.
  • 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.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups, 8 in the past 12 months

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer, and enterprise technology startups. Partnering with the global design company IDEO, D4V provides both hands-on assistance and coaching to help startups create value via human-centered customer experiences and interactions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $443k–$7M; Series A $1.2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $292k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M 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.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
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Central Japan Seed Fund
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Central Japan Seed Fund invest in and support startups nationwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M; Series A $868k–$2.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CELLORB — CELLORB provides player management, sports event planning, and event management services.
  • L&F — L&F is a real estate company that develops rental portals and tools for vacant houses, family trusts, and rental property management.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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REVIC
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups

REVIC is an organization that supports the business revitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises and regional revitalization in order to revitalize Japan's regional economy and contribute to strengthening the foundation of credit order. It was established in March of the year by reorganizing its predecessor, the Enterprise TurnaroundInitiative Corporation. It supports the business feasibility evaluation conducted by regional financial institutions to provide solutions that match the life stages of local companies, based on the current situation and issues of the regional economy and industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$8.1M; Series C $4.2M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $388k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.8M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Provigate — PROVIGATE is a provider of bio-transistor sensor technologies in Japan.The company's technologies are able to measure dynamic changes with the help of perception-broadening sensors, enabling individuals to change their habits for health
  • Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
  • KOALA Tech — Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.
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Tsukuba Institute of Research
VC Fund · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Health Care startups

Tsukuba Institute of Research (筑波総研) is an R&D center owned by housing and wood products group Sumitomo Forestry. The facility develops technologies to make more effective use of wood in a wide range of fields.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$1.8M; Series A $2M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.5M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
  • Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics develops technologies and products based on hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) expansion and gene-augmented therapies. The company operates a platform that enables in-vitro propagation of human HSCs without relying on animal-derived components, facilitating scalability, consistency, and cost control. It applies this platform acrossworkflows, including donor/patient cell collection, HSC expansion, cell processing, and gene editing to deliver cell therapy products. Celaid advances pipelines in areas such as blood cancers, genetic disorders, and rare hematologic diseases. Through partnerships and internal research, it seeks to support both reagent/media supply and therapeutic development around HSC-based regenerative medicine.
  • Veneno Technologies — Veneno Technologies develops drug candidates for pharmaceutical companies. The company provides services that include the treatment of neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases, cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, and immune cell regulation.
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Health Care Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 1.9k deals from 1.6k investors.

1.6k
investors
in Japan Health Care startups
1.9k
deals
in Japan Health Care startups
$2.6M
median round
in Japan Health Care startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Seed
most common funding stage
88/12
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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