Top 10 Infrastructure Startup Investors in Japan

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Infrastructure startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Infrastructure companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Infrastructure Startup Investors in Japan

Investor	Infrastructure Japan investments
Samsung Venture Investment	1
LINE Ventures	1
Nomura	1
Dentsu Innovation Partners	1
DNX Ventures	1
Genesia Ventures	1
Yusuke Sato	1
Narimatsu Jun	1
STRIVE	1
DK Gate	1

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Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Modapl — Modapl's objective is to make all mobility data available to everyone. It is developing a platform for exchanging mobility data. The platform will contain data generated by autos, IoT devices, and smartphones, as well as mobility data owned by businesses.
BrickBio — BrickBio: Bioconjugation platform for site-specific, site-selective modification of antibodies and other proteins
HMC Networks — Hmcnetworks leads service innovation, resolving the imbalance of information in the medical industry by using big data.

Z Venture Capital (ZVC) serves as the corporate venture capital arm of LY Corporation. Established in 2021 through the merger of YJ Capital and LINE Ventures, ZVC is strategically positioned with offices in Tokyo, Seoul, and San Francisco. We actively invest across Japan, Korea, the United States, and Southeast Asia. Our vision is to empower humanity through innovation. At ZVC, we invest in and support innovative startups driving transformative societal changes, leveraging proprietary resources, expertise and assets from the LY Corporation Group.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, Indonesia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Mellia — Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements.
Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
Sunday — Founded in Thailand in 2017, Sunday is the first full-stack InsurTech group adopting data models and technology to offer multiple insurance products and services across the entire customer journey. The company provides auto insurance, health insurance, and travel insurance.Sunday reinvents the entire insurance offering and experience to ensurethat customers' needs are met anytime, anywhere.

Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through fivebusiness divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management.Nomura with a nationwide network of branch offices, call centers and Internet services, the company continues to provide world-class products and services centered on consulting-based sales, and implement a series of strategic initiatives to ensure we remain a trusted partner to its clients.Asset Management achieves stable and sustainable growth as an asset management company that is trusted by investors around the world and will contribute to an increase in earnings by expanding the client franchise of the Nomura Group.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Corporate Round
India, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Omakase — Omakase provides reservation management services for customers and restaurants.
Tevaera — Tevaera is a ZK Stack powered gaming ecosystem for effortlessly launching and playing web3 games.
Omakase — Omakase Co., Ltd, a provider of infrastructure engineering in the Web3 running validators/nodes.

Dentsu Innovation Partners manages corporate venture capital funds for Dentsu Group. It is specialized in the digital domain with the objectives of creating a worldwide digital business market and expanding the Dentsu Group's digital businesses.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan

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.
Monstar Lab — Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.
Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Immedio — Instanto is a consulting firm providing an automated service for acquiring business negotiations that completes negotiations with clients.
Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaymak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.

Narimatsu Jun - Outside Director @ FiNC Technologies

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pulit — Pulit innovates the brand new Content Distribution Infra.
Play Life — PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information thatcoordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.
State of Mind — State of Mind is the development and operation of the cloud sourcing.

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