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Top 35 Impact Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Impact startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Impact startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech $1M–$4.5M
Daisaku Harada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Tourism, Automotive
Shintaro Tabata
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources $553k–$31M
Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
1 Japan Angel SNS, Content, Fashion
Matsuoka Tsuyoshi
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed Water, Banking, Analytics
Tetsuya Nagashima
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Toyokazu Ichise
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Yoshihiro Yamauchi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Suzuki Yuto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
Shinji Senba
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Takuma Iwasa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Water, Beauty, IT Management
Kei Tanaka
Angel
1 Japan Angel, Series A, Series D Beauty, Energy, Cosmetics
Mr Maru
Angel
1 Japan Seed Organic, Residential, Waste Management
Yusaku Maezawa
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series C Gaming, Social, Big Data $500k–$198M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Marketing $2.5M–$1B
Shunsuke Masaki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Seio Nagami
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Task Management, SaaS, Legal $14M–$14M
Shoji Kodama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series B Internet, Real Estate, Fashion $14M–$14M
Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
1 Japan Angel SNS, Content, Fashion
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Shunsuke Ikegami
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social, Cooking, Big Data
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Blockchain, Art $1.7M–$18M
Taizo Son
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, Information Technology, Apps $737k–$100M
Tomoya Hirota
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Rental, Sharing Economy
Aso Kaname
Angel
1 Japan Seed Organic, Residential, Waste Management
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
1 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel Information Technology, SNS, Internet $2.8M–$5.7M
Ogawa Ryo
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Social, Finance $420k–$6.8M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
1 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
Katsunori Sago
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Series C Sustainability, Robotics, Aerospace
Hiromi Watase
Angel
1 Japan Seed Apps, Rental, E-Commerce
Taiga Matsuyama
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Analytics $250k–$9.2M
Shoji Miyata
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Travel, Organic, Software $7.5M–$12M
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Naruhisa Nakagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Impact startups

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Manufacturing, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
  • RootWave — RootWave is an electronics company that develops tools that kill weeds it enables farmers to control weeds on their farm. Its technology is an alternative substitute for herbicides and other weed control chemicals. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Warwickshire, United Kingdom.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
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Daisaku Harada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Impact startups

Daisaku Harada is the Director of Management Strategy at Mercari. Daisaku attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Tourism, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
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Shintaro Tabata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Impact startups

Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sharing Economy, Audio, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
  • Telework — Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • SPeak — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Graduated from Keio University, Department of Political Science and Law. 1998 Registered as an attorney. 2004: Mitsui & Co., Ltd. was established. Participated as a partner. 2006 Lecturer, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. In 2011, Inoki Law Office was established. Currently Director, Creative CommonsJapan, Outside Director of SAKURA Internet, Representative Director of Cyberbond, Mercari External AuditorHe assumed the position of.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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Matsuoka Tsuyoshi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Matsuoka Tsuyoshi - Executive Officer @ Goodpatch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Water, Banking, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Umitron — Umitron is a data company for aquaculture. We support fish farmers to increase productivity through data analytics. One of the biggest challenges in aquaculture is increasing feeding cost. We optimize feed amount and timing by using fish behavior analytics and water quality data. Our goal is to "install Sustainable Aquaculture on Earth".
  • nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
  • Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.
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Tetsuya Nagashima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Tetsuya Nagashima - Director COO @ Gunosy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Toyokazu Ichise
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Toyokazu Ichise is a Director of Peace Communication Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Yoshihiro Yamauchi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Yoshihiro Yamauchi is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Suzuki Yuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Shinji Senba
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Shinji Senba is a Director of Green Innovations Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Takuma Iwasa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Takuma Iwasa is a Founder & CEO at Cerevo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Water, Beauty, IT Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.
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Kei Tanaka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Kei Tanaka is the Individual investor/Former Co-Head of Asset Management at Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Energy, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • THE RICH — THE RICH is a hair care brand that contains silk regenerating and repairing ingredients.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
  • One World Technology
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Mr Maru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Mr. Maru

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Organic, Residential, Waste Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
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Yusaku Maezawa
Angel · Mihama, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Yusaku Maezawa is a Founder of Zozotown.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Social, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
  • Space Aviation — Space Aviation is an aerospace company that offers air taxi services, flight training, aircraft sales, and heliport development solutions.
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$225M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
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Shunsuke Masaki
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Mr. Masaki joined Mitsui Ventures in May 2008 as Venture Partner, and since has been focused on investments in retail and service sector. Previously, he worked at Fujita Corporation, a large operator of restaurants and retail chain, where he was responsible for store development and merchandising in Tokyo area. After several successfulyears at Fujita, he took a position with Service Business Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., in charge of developing new business utilizing the franchise method.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, E-Commerce, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
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Seio Nagami
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Seio Nagami

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, SaaS, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Stock — Stock develops products that relieve the stress of sharing information from teams around the world.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Shoji Kodama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Shunsuke Ikegami
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Shunsuke Ikegami is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Cooking, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
  • Datasection — Datasection is a social big data company that provides various big data analysis tools for its clients. It specializes in marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, overseas SNS, and data utilization and optimization. Datasection was founded in 2000.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elaly — Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
  • Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
  • OPERA TECH
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Taizo Son
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Taizo Son is the Co-Founder of VIVITA. Taizo Son attended the University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $737k–$2.2M; Series A $1.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Favolist5 — Favolist5 is a software company that develops an abbreviated voice SNS based on web3 for personal media.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Tomoya Hirota
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Tomoya Hirota - Director @ CLASS, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Rental, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
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Aso Kaname
Angel · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Aso Kaname

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Organic, Residential, Waste Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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Ogawa Ryo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Ogawa Ryo - CEO @ Timee

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Social, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LivCo — LivCo is a support service company that offers HR, life support, real estate rental brokerage, and media platform solutions for foreigners.
  • Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Katsunori Sago
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Katsunori Sago

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sustainability, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kollektion — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
  • Sustech — Sustech is a technology company that develops platforms for decarbonization support and distributed power generation services.
  • Ispace Technologies — ispace is a private lunar robotic exploration company that is developing micro-robotic technology to provide a low-cost and frequent transportation service to and on the Moon, conduct lunar surface exploration to map, process and deliver resources to our customers in cislunar space.
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Hiromi Watase
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Hiromi Watase

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Rental, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • TASKAJI — TASKAJI is an online housekeeping service that matches people looking for someone to do their housekeeping with those who want to work as housekeepers.The companies motto is of “from the nuclear family to the extended family” and it aims to provide people with more leisure time through its concept of “housekeeping sharing.
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Taiga Matsuyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Taiga Matsuyama graduated form Waseda University, Matsuyama has been engaged in venture company support for more than ten years in Tokyo, after experience as a consultant at Accenture.Matsuyama became one of the board member of NetAge, Inc (IPO 2006), start-up incubator known by having invested in MIXI – Japanese top SNS and support severalstart-up companies.He also has contributed to the activity for create the start-up eco-system in Tokyo through the NPO Organization BVA (Bit Valley Association). Currently he has established Kronos Fund with angel investors, venture capital fund for investment in emerging early-stage companies.Kronos Fund has invested in more than 20 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9.2M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippo — Shippo is the best multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce businesses. Find the best shipping rates, integrate with e-commerce platforms, print shipping labels, track package delivery, and verify addresses with either our shipping API or web app.
  • CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
  • Spectra Japan — Spectra is a Provision of services for artists and fans company.
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Shoji Miyata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Impact startups

Shoji Miyata is the CEO of SmartHR.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $7.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Impact Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 42 deals from 57 investors.

57
investors
in Japan Impact startups
42
deals
in Japan Impact startups
$13M
median round
in Japan Impact startups
4%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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