Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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13 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$26M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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12 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, SNS, Internet | $690k–$33M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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11 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $455k–$30M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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10 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, Internet, Apps | $700k–$213M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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9 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Content, Software | $320k–$43M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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8 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$43M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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7 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $420k–$354M |
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel
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7 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources | $968k–$71M |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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6 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $2.5M–$41M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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6 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $661k–$17M |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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6 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources | $455k–$73M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series C | Internet, Consulting, Financial Services | $3.3M–$33M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $272k–$17M |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Local, Content | $3.3M–$9M |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Software | $1.3M–$74M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Marketing | $764k–$16M |
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Web Design | $6M–$18M |
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Virtual Reality, Content, Internet | $320k–$26M |
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Shogo Kawada
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Apps | $360k–$14M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, SNS, Sales | $4.3M–$33M |
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps | $278k–$30M |
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Travel, Tourism, Recruiting | $549k–$11M |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Internet, Task Management, Apps | $453k–$14M |
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Suzuki Tatsuya
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | AgTech, Agriculture, Internet | $367k–$4.7M |
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Noboru Miyata
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $933k–$6.8M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, E-Commerce | $480k–$11M |
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Art, Software, Reservations | $2.8M–$28M |
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Minoru Moriya
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet | $378k–$14M |
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Akinori Harada
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Apps, Gaming, Web3 | $769k–$1.2M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$47M |
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Content, Social Media | |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | SNS, Internet, Software | |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Oki Matsumoto
Angel
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2 | Japan, Taiwan, Australia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $2.1M–$20M |
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Masaru Tange
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet | |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $228k–$25M |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | |
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Koki Yabu
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Finance, Data Mining | |
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Satoshi Nakajima
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Series A | Apps, Internet, Security | |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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2 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Social Media, SNS | |
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel
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2 | Japan, Germany | Seed, Angel | Shopping, Apps, Travel | |
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Kevin Chou
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Gaming, Video Games, eSports | $625k–$14M |
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Kentaro Uryu
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Sports, Internet | $765k–$68M |
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Seiji Kurokoshi
Angel
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2 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel | Sports, Travel, Fashion | $11M–$68M |
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Takao Ozawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$71M |
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Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel
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2 | Japan, France, United States | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Finance, Internet | $1.3M–$14M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series B, Angel | Apps, Sports, Content | $735k–$221M |
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2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$24M; Angel $425k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $690k–$33M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; 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 Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$41M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1M–$43M; 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 is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $628k–$43M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grafto — Grafto operates “Mylo Magazine,” a platform dedicated to sharing and promoting trend culture, where readers can explore the latest developments in lifestyle, fashion, art, and emerging cultural movements through engaging and curated content.
- FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $968k–$70M; Angel $2.8M–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
- Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$41M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
- Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
- Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $661k–$17M; Series A $12M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $455k–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
- Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $510k–$4.9M
- 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.
Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.
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- Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$7.1M; Series C $20M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UPWARDS — UPWARDS develop and operate the “cloud loan” loan platform for individuals.
- CrowdLoan — CrowdLoan is a platform that connects financial institutions and individuals with smooth loans.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $457k–$17M; Pre-Seed $272k–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $764k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shiftus — Shiftus is a communication application that can be used in various part-time job sites such as cafes, izakayas, hotels, supermarkets
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
- Giver Take All — Gibber Take All is a Planning, development and management of business sharing platform
He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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 .
- STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
- STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$11M; Angel $320k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Gatari — Gatari specializes in the planning, development, and operation of XR services. Auris, a futuristic audio guide, and Vismuth, a camera app that transforms reality into a story, are two of Gatari's services.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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.
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Spider Labs — Spider AF is an ad fraud detection tool that detects, blocks, and protects web advertisements from fraudulent clicks and conversions. Advertisers can easily detect fraudulent activity across published ads using centralized fraud management and advanced automation. Spider AF provides complete transparency in digital advertising, allowing advertisersto track ad placement, identify fraudulent behaviors, and analyze clean - fraud-free data.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore
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- Industry: Health Care, SNS, Sales
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$33M; Angel $7.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Saurus Japan — SAURUS JAPAN is an online store that sells sports supplements. They provide athletes with protein and amino acids. They provide quality raw materials and formulations with a focus on safety and security. Their nutrients serve the purpose that professionals need.
Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $278k–$30M
- 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 is an IT services firm that operates web content and matching platforms for global talents. It operates JPort Match, which is involved in direct recruiting services. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus
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- Industry: Travel, Tourism, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $549k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
- HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
- Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Industry: Internet, Task Management, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $453k–$14M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
- Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
- CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
1985. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. In 2008, he engaged in new business support and venture support for large companies at Inspire Co., Ltd. In 2011, he was appointed director of UXConsulting company wacul. In 2012, he was appointed director of giftee.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $367k–$4.7M; Series A $1.5M–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
- Terrafarm — Terrafarm is a Tokyo-based agritech and aerospace start-up that develops fully automated, space-ready plant factory modules designed to operate in extreme environments.
- Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.
Noboru Miyata is the Founder at SmartHR .
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $933k–$1M; Series A $2.7M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
- PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
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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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$28M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- On the Trip — On The Trip is an iOS app that turns your iPhone into an GPS-enabled audio travel guide. It was launched last week and is now available on the iTunes AppStore.
- Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
- 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.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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- Industry: Art, Software, Reservations
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$14M; Series A $15M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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- Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $378k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
- Smooth — Smooth is a smart parking service that enables unmanned parking lots.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
He is the vice president of mixi, Inc which is social media network in Japan since June 2009. He’s managed “mixi application” and “mixi new year card”. He’s also directed “mixi alum” and “mixi voice” to make it to be more social but community based. He joined mixi, Inc in 2007. He managed mobile development, “mixi mobile” which became a mixi’sdevelopment driver.Before he started his career at mixi, he was managing mainly portal sites such as searching engine section of “i-mode” at NTT Docomo Inc.
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- Industry: Apps, Gaming, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $769k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan
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- Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
- HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
- rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Oki Matsumoto began his career at Salomon Brothers Asia Limited in April 1987. He then joined Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd. in April 1990 and was appointed General Partner of The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. in November 1994. As a General Partner, he was Co-Head of its Tokyo Branch’s FX & Fixed Income Business and was in charge of FX and fixedincome products and the related risk management. It was in April 1999 that Matsumoto jointly established (the former) Monex, Inc. with Sony Corporation. In August 2004, Matsumoto become the Representative Director and CEO of the Company (former name: Monex Beans Holdings, Inc.) upon its formation through management integration of Monex, Inc. and Nikko Beans Inc. He was named the Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of the Company in February 2011 and then assumed his current position in June 2013.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Angel $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
- WATASHIHA — WATASHIHA is a communication company.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
- S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- Launchable — Shorter test runs, smarter test triaging, test health insights, and test failure analysis. Remove friction from the dev-test loop to iterate & ship faster.
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
Satoshi Nakajima - Investor and software engineer @ mmhmm
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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Security
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- mmhmm — Look your best on video. Present with impact. Virtual backgrounds, screen recorder, present with a friend. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex.
- Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
- Wellness — Wellness is a provider of personal doctor service.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Tsunezawa Kahoko
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- Industry: Shopping, Apps, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Menew — Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
- Valise — Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.
- Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
Kevin Chou is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SuperLayer. He previously worked at Kabam as a Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Chou attended UC Berkeley, Haas Business School.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $625k–$14M; Series A $12M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
- Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
- YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
Kentaro Uryu - Legal advisor @ Adot
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- Industry: Beauty, Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $14M–$68M; Angel $765k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adot — Adot specializes in product development, service growth, branding, and PR. Its services include Branding business and sales promotion business. It also supports the challenges and reforms of companies. It is not only in the field of advertising but also in a professional team in business development and development. It aims to promote"Aesthetic-conscious management" and focus on "social significance," such as "whether the whole society will be enriched," rather than the conventional business of "just do it."It was founded on July 26, 2012, and is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- SISI — SISI company provides beauty products made from natural ingredients. They also offer a skin analysis program led by a skin expert, allowing customers to take care of their body and skin after a thorough examination. They also sell beauty products online and provide delivery.
Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Sports, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $11M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ezay — Ezay provides a mobile platform that connects rural 'mom-and-pop' shops with B2B market place and provide financial and logistics services.
- CURBON — CURBON is a Japan's largest photo learning site for C2C,Provides learning content such as video lectures and photography classes, Lightroom presets, etc.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Takao is the former CEO of YJ Capital. He is also the President of Shopping Company at Yahoo Japan. Prior to Yahoo, he founded Bizseek, Inc. in 1999 which was acquired by Rakuten, Inc. in 2001. He joined Rakuten after the acquisition and was the Corporate Officer in charge of auctions. During his career in Rakuten, he was engaged in projects suchas formation of Rakuten Eagles. He left Rakuten in 2006 and founded Ozawa Research Institute where he enhanced business in areas such as investments to start-up companies and consulting. In 2011, he founded Crocos, Inc. which was sold to Yahoo Japan in 2012. As an angel investor, he invested/founded companies like nanapi, Appgrooves, STARFESTIVAL, Crocos, Netage and many others.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $41k–$17M; Series A $20k–$19M; Series B $8.1M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango, Inc.
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- Industry: Marketing, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skimlinks — Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform. Its technology automatically monetizes product links in commerce-related content
- MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
- HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, Sports, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $735k–$2.1M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
- Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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