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Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Internet startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Internet startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
12 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$28M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
11 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Software $497k–$41M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
11 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $4.3M–$30M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
10 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Content, Information Technology, Travel $700k–$75M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
8 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
7 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
7 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
6 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology $6.9M–$73M
Masao Ito
Angel
6 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $1.4M–$18M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
5 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Marketing $2.5M–$1B
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
5 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $1.4M–$26M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Apps $360k–$14M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming $320k–$38M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Web Design $6M–$18M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content $968k–$326M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Software $2.8M–$16M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Local, Sports $9M–$68M
Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series C Internet, Consulting, Financial Services $7.1M–$326M
Toru Shimada
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Task Management, Content $553k–$68M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Suzuki Tatsuya
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Software, Agriculture $964k–$61M
Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel SNS, Video, Beauty $7.1M–$68M
Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Fashion, Internet, Software $1.3M–$74M
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
3 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $320k–$33M
Noboru Miyata
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Apps, SaaS $933k–$142M
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
3 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
Kevin Chou
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Gaming, Video Games, eSports $625k–$14M
Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel
2 Japan, France, United States Seed, Angel Marketing, Finance, Internet $1.3M–$14M
Taiga Matsuyama
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Analytics $250k–$9.2M
Richard Chen
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, Software, Apps $630k–$13M
Koya Arikawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Media and Entertainment, SNS $968k–$1.8M
Seiji Kurokoshi
Angel
2 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel Sports, Travel, Fashion $11M–$68M
Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Health Care, Travel, Content $5.7M–$11M
Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
2 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Social Media, SNS
Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel
2 Japan, Germany Seed, Angel Shopping, Apps, Travel
Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series B Social Media, Content, CRM
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Fashion, Logistics
Masaru Tange
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
Yasumasa Manabe
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics
Narimatsu Jun
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Beauty, Content, Fashion
Sakai Masaru
Angel
2 Japan Seed B2C, Fashion, Internet
Yuki Naito
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Internet, SNS
Koki Yabu
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Finance, Data Mining
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Task Management, Social Media
Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Art, Baby, Gaming
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources $553k–$31M
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 12 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; 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.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; 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.
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Japan Internet startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$48M; Series A $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 8 investments in Japan Internet startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; 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.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Internet startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $973k–$70M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Internet 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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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Internet startups

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $6.9M–$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.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 6 investments in Japan Internet startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; 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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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Internet 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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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Internet 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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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$26M; Pre-Seed $4.3M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
  • 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.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$38M; Angel $320k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$326M; 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 Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • 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
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Local, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Internet startups

Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $7.1M–$48M; Series C $33M–$326M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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 an Internet Company.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • 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 Co., Ltd. — 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.
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Suzuki Tatsuya
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $964k–$5.7M; Series A $2.2M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Video, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $33M–$68M; 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
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Noboru Miyata
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Internet startups

Noboru Miyata is the Founder at SmartHR .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$18M; Series A $57M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in Japan Internet 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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Kevin Chou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ryota Matsuzaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Taiga Matsuyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet 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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Richard Chen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Richard Chen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$3.3M; Series A $3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Farel — Run your airline on one platform. Farel unifies PSS, IBE, DCS, and B2B with a built-in AI assistant to grow direct sales and automate ops. Get a personalized demo and pricing.
  • Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
  • Kinnek — Potential customers are looking for reasons to trust your company, and they want third-party sources to vouch for you. Kinnek helps suppliers like you build a world-class online reputation and easily share it. Because when you win more trust, more prospects become loyal customers.
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Koya Arikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Koya Arikawa is the Representative Director and Founder at Hotspring.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Seiji Kurokoshi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Tsunezawa Kahoko

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Content, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Yasumasa Manabe
Angel · Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Yasumasa Manabe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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Narimatsu Jun
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Narimatsu Jun - Outside Director @ FiNC Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Sakai Masaru
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Sakai Masaru is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
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Yuki Naito
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
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Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Task Management, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet startups

Kunihiro Tanaka is a President/CEO of Sakura Internet Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Baby, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Internet 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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Internet Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 126 deals from 174 investors.

174
investors
in Japan Internet startups
126
deals
in Japan Internet startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Internet startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
37%
Seed
most common funding stage

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