Top 45 Legal Startup Investors in Japan (October 2026)
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $800k–$34M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$41M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Medical | $455k–$12M |
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Bengo4.com
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Series C | Consulting, Legal, Information Technology | $455k–$1.6M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $283k–$10M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $288k–$20M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $372k–$17M |
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, Task Management | $91k–$30M |
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First Light Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Advertising | $50k–$18M |
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Shinsuke Mori
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence | $756k–$11M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $661k–$47M |
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Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Malaysia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Consulting, Health Care, Information Technology | $300k–$2M |
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Mint
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $283k–$52M |
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OPT
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Advertising, Apps | $1.3M–$21M |
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Adways
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Media and Entertainment, Content | $944k–$30M |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $440k–$85M |
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Ricoh
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $5.1M–$38M |
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NAC
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Corporate Round, Series C | Legal, SaaS, Medical | $3.8M–$6.1M |
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $351k–$52M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Software, Medical | $457k–$45M |
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Yazawa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Legal, Advice, Family | $258k–$432k |
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Takato Hiroshi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Legal, Beauty | |
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Paul Kuo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Reservations, Travel, SaaS | $2.6M–$2.6M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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1 | India, Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $456k–$50M |
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SSS Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Legal, Legal Tech, AI Infrastructure | |
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Taki Toshio
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Legal, Finance, Education | |
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Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical | $389k–$20M |
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Digital Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, B2B | $1.9M–$21M |
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Content | $190k–$7.1M |
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, Belgium | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Content, Marketing, Medical | $166k–$6.9M |
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Fundinno
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, France | Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding | Information Technology, Content, Health Care | $123k–$582k |
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Boost Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate | $316k–$32M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $177k–$40M |
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Chihiro Asano
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, FinTech, Financial Services | $216k–$14M |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Fashion, Software | $252k–$9.2M |
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SPARX Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.5M–$142M |
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Salesforce Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $3.8M–$300M |
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Seio Nagami
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Task Management, Information Technology, SaaS | $934k–$4.6M |
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Miyamoto Kunihisa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Legal, EdTech | $457k–$881k |
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The Johnan Shinkin Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Debt Financing | B2B, Legal, Internet | |
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MUFG Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing | $3.7M–$2B |
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Miraidoa
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology | $96k–$11M |
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Suzuyo
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $747k–$34M |
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Tetsuro Yoshimatsu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Legal, Sales, Biofuel | |
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Deep30
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software | $136k–$11M |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries and affiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 673
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $800k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to the creations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 371
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$41M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Seed $455k–$9.6M; Series A $1.2M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $899k–$7M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
- Spectronix — Spectronics is a development of new technologies and new applications to bring about innovation, focusing on the future of laser technology.
- Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
Bengo 4.com is a legal consulting web that offers free legal counseling services.
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- Industry: Consulting, Legal, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $455k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CloudLegal — CloudLegal provides AI-powered legal services, combining generative AI with legal expertise to streamline corporate operations.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Hubble — Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. In addition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $283k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $389k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
- GEMBA — GEMBA develops on-site improvement DX services specialising in the manufacturing industry.
- NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 395
- Round size: Seed $288k–$7.1M; Series A $1.8M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $368k–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Tell us about anything development-related. Our founder, who launched Niconico Live, SUGAR and GANMA! from scratch, helps with planning, design, development and operations.
- Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $372k–$2.9M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Task Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $275k–$4.3M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $91k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
- GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
- Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
First Light Capital is venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Series A $2M–$16M; Series B $3.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
- Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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- Industry: Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $756k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LegalForce — LegalForce is an AI that reduces the workload while improving the accuracy of contract review .
- LegalOn Technologies — LegalOn is a legal AI platform built for contracting. It combines AI, legal content, and team knowledge to streamline contract review. The platform identifies potential risks, suggests redlines, and structures contract data to reduce manual work and improve efficiency in legal processes.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo. The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is the fifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan. Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 550
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$32M; Series B $2.4M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- HEARTBEATS — HEARTBEATS builds fan engagement platforms and digital experiences for sports teams, artists, and entertainment brands.
Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.
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- Industry: Consulting, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $300k–$1M; Series A $961k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.3M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
- CareMaker — CareMaker is a technology company that develops and operates visit schedule management and regional collaboration cloud services.
- Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $283k–$16M; Series A $1.4M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Smolt — Smolt is a startup that performs its own recycling type aquaculture of Sakura Mouth.
- Subliminal — Subliminal is an enterprise software company that develops and operates an AI-driven Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform named "unito". The organization specializes in automating the traditionally complex setup and configuration phase of ERP systems by utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze a client company's internal regulations, such as employment and salary rules. Its system integrates core corporate business functions—including human resources, payroll, attendance tracking, sales management, and expense tracking—into a centralized database. Additionally, the company provides IT consulting, custom software development services, and assistance with artificial intelligence implementation for mid-sized businesses.
- Bridgesmile Corporation — Bridgesmile operates an on-site installation and replacement service platform for consumers and businesses. Its service, The Butler Next Door, enables customers to arrange technician visits for products purchased through e-commerce sites and manufacturers. Supported categories include dash cameras, security cameras, smart locks, and air conditioners. The platform coordinates online reservations with offline installation work and provides pricing and service coverage information. Bridgesmile also develops and operates the service for business partners, including e-commerce companies and manufacturers.
OPT, Inc. is Japanese e-marketing company, which supports customer's Internet marketing holding the concept 'e-marketing that would directly into sales'.OPT, Inc. aims to create new market by realizing maximizing customer's ROI and finding the best way of solutions to the customer's problem. It is the OPT'stask to propose collectively the way how to use the Internet as a marketing tool for customers and support them.In order to maximize customer's ROI, it is necessary to make ads, develop sites, develop marketing strategies, and support communication and IT strategies.At OPT. Inc: it has wide business lines, customers would be supported by the 4 business fields making ads, technology, solution, and contents.The important thing for the e-marketing company is always standing the idea "market in" not "product out". And so OPT, Inc instantaneously developed its own tool to objectively effect measurement and has tried to improve customer's marketing by using the objective data.
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- Industry: Mobile, Advertising, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$21M; Series A $1.8M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raksul — Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.
- OPT China — OPT China is a company that provides marketing and distribution support for Chinese consumers.
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
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- Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $944k–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Rentio — Rentio is a site that can be used anytime without buying 1,000 kinds of cameras and the latest home appliances.
- MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $953k–$7.1M; Series B $3.5M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $440k–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
- Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
- SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
[Ricoh Global Official Website] At Ricoh, we empower individuals to find Fulfillment through Work by understanding and transforming how people work so we can unleash their potential and creativity to realize a sustainable future
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series B $5.1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
- United Immunity — Just another WordPress site
NAC engages in delivery-related businesses such as home delivery and Duskin, and residential-related businesses.Since the company's founding, it has been engaged in various businesses. Starting with Duskin, NAC entered the environmental hygiene business for restaurants, architectural consulting utilizing the customer base, and in 2002, andthen home sales and home water distribution business. Furthermore, in 2013, JIMOS Co., Ltd., which handles the mail-order business, was grouped, and NAC's business is developing as a "useful company for living" centered on the two axes of living and living.
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- Industry: Legal, SaaS, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WAKUWAKU — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
- Yell Lpi — Yell Lpi is a provider of compensation for legal fees.
- Robot Consulting Co., Ltd — [Metaverse, Intellectual Property, Legal Tech, SaaS] Robot Consulting Introduction Video>>> https://youtu.be/URCrcZ45lbY , Youtube Channel>>> https://www.youtube.com/@robotconsulting , Press Releases>>> https://robotconsulting.net/en-news/
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $351k–$3.1M; Series A $1.3M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
- Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
- Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various new businesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $457k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
- United Immunity — Just another WordPress site
- AOI Biosciences — AOI Biosciences is a biotechnology company that creates testing and drug discovery businesses.
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- Industry: Legal, Advice, Family
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $258k–$432k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- xCura — xCura alleviating pain and anxiety of people with the help of technology and product therapy VR.
- Out Loud — Out Loud is an IT company that offers integrated language assistance services with the help of AI and LLM.
- ReLife Technology — ReLife Technology offers online consultation services that help to solve the problems of people who are troubled by marital problems.
Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum
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- Industry: Health Care, Legal, Beauty
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Japan Healthcare — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
- Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
- Legal Technology — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.
Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco
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- Industry: Reservations, Travel, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
- Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
- Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
BEENEXT manages multiple funds targeting diverse sectors, including fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. Its platform offers founders access to a global network for knowledge exchange, mentorship, and business co-creation. The firm utilizes an industry-agnostic approach to identify businesses with potential for long-term growth across various international markets. Additionally, the company facilitates partnerships between entrepreneurs and a community of collaborators to assist with scaling operations.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 397
- Round size: Seed $456k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
- Furnishka — Discover premium sofas, recliners, beds, dining sets and more at Furnishka. Buy furniture online in India with free delivery, easy EMI and warranty.
- Foundry — Foundry is a consumer technology business that specializes in household appliances. Foundry was started by Ankit Jain, a former managing director of Dyson India.
SSS Capital is an independent venture capital firm that invests in start-up companies in their initial stages, serving as the first escort for entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Legal, Legal Tech, AI Infrastructure
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entaar — Entaar operates a digital transformation platform that aids in optimizing investments, decision-making, and promoting dashboards for businesses to enhance efficiency in digitization.
- Legal Node — Legal Node provides AI-native fixed-price M&A legal services and develops legal AI agent systems for transactions and fundraising.
Taki Toshio is the Founder at Money Forward .
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- Industry: Legal, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Crediation — Crediation is a digital finance provider that provides small and medium-sized businesses with complete access to financial services to build their enterprises by providing seamless mobile lending experiences. is a stock finance facility focused on helping business owners receive the capital they need to refill their enterprises through convenient,inexpensive, and sustainable loans.
Animal Spirits is an investment firm that raises funds for seed and early-stage startups and provides relevant advisory services.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $389k–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $973k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kikuvi — Kikuvi is an AI Interview agent that automates everything from question design to execution and structuring, turning overlooked voices into insights. It saves the effort of listening so you can spend time on judgment and creation.
- Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.
- Your Neighboring Company — Kimi no Tonari is a Nagoya-based startup specializing in the development and operation of the AI fortune-telling app "Uracchi"
Digital Holdings is principally engaged in the Internet advertising business. Digital Holdings operates in two business segments. The Marketing segment provides Internet advertising for large companies, digital marketing, related services, and digital marketing solutions for local small and medium enterprises. The Synergy Investment segment isinvolved in the investment in Internet-related venture companies, the information collecting in the United States, the development of AI and AI platforms, the provision of digital shift support education services for companies, and the general trade operated in China.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$21M; Corporate Round $1.9M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- Fuller — Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab.App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active usersof the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more.App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market.Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.
- Raksul — Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.
Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and other growing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Content
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, China, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $200k–$7.1M; Series A $913k–$4.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $190k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- pickupon — Pickupon is a SaaS product that automatically records and inputs calls.
- Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
- HEARTBEATS — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, China, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$6.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $166k–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Asoview — Asoview is an online booking website that provides booking services for tour, activities and attractions/experiences.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Health Care
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding
- Geography: Japan, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $131k–$582k; Product Crowdfunding $123k–$444k
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atto — Atto operates in the healthcare and preventive medicine field as a technology venture. Its main business is the development, manufacturing, and sale of health inspection equipment. The core product is a capillary blood flow observation device called Kekkan Bijin. This device allows users to observe capillary blood flow simply by placing a finger onit, without any blood sampling.
- FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
- Novius Company — Novius, Inc. is a Japan-based medical technology startup developing advanced glass-free 3D endoscopic imaging solutions. Its flagship platform, N-Vision3D, enables real-time 2D-to-3D conversion of endoscopic and microscopic images using proprietary AI-powered depth estimation. By enhancing depth perception without requiring specialized 3Dendoscopes, Novius improves surgical accuracy, supports medical training, and expands accessibility to next-generation imaging worldwide. Developed proprietary real-time 2D-to-3D imaging technology compatible with existing Olympus endoscopy towers and monitors.Completed initial clinical adoption with early users in Japan.Expanding global commercialization in minimally invasive surgery, cancer treatment, and medical education.
Boost Capital aids businesses in their growth.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $316k–$13M; Series A $1.9M–$32M; Series C $13M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Solafune — Solafune integrates multi-domain intelligence across space, cyber, and physical layers to create actionable, sovereign decision systems.
- SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
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 $330k–$8.2M; Angel $177k–$626k; Series A $1.4M–$40M
- 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.
Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.
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- Industry: Content, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $3M–$14M; Angel $216k–$733k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- 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.
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: Internet, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $252k–$4.3M; Series A $4.6M–$9.2M
- 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.
SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Series A $3.7M–$142M; Series B $4.6M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $128M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Provigate — PROVIGATE is a provider of bio-transistor sensor technologies in Japan.The company's technologies are able to measure dynamic changes with the help of perception-broadening sensors, enabling individuals to change their habits for health
- Spaceflux — As satellites become increasingly vital, Spaceflux tackles the growing challenges of orbital congestion and debris that put them at risk. Thanks to our proprietary global network of optical sensors, we provide data-driven space situational awareness services from LEO to Cislunar.
- Alloyed — OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and biomedical markets.
100% invested in enterprise cloud companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 992
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$38M; Series B $5M–$96M; Series C $20M–$300M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
- Hubbl Technologies — Hubbl Technologies helps businesses maximize Salesforce performance and uncover hidden efficiencies with advanced process discovery and org audits.
Seio Nagami
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- Industry: Task Management, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $934k–$944k; Series A $1.4M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Stock — Stock develops solutions to eliminate the stress of information sharing for non-IT companies.
- Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Miyamoto Kunihisa - President & CEO @ All Ads
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Legal, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $457k–$881k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prorium — Prorium Co., Ltd. runs an online‑education platform that delivers professional‑skills training through online schools and partner‑school programs. It focuses on wellness and creative‑field courses, creating digital learning environments where learners can study specialized techniques remotely. The company also supports shared‑salon andlearning‑space operations linked to its education ecosystem.
- Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
Jonan Future Fund supports small and medium-sized businesses.
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- Industry: B2B, Legal, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TANAAKK — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
- Civitas — Civitas enables the creation of a set of documents necessary for legal continuation. Civitas allows the user to create legal documents by entering information in a form. Then Civitas will send the user a set of documents necessary for the application, including the documents that must be submitted together with the application form. Currently, thecompany responds to defamatory comments on Twitter and Bakusai but intends to expand its offerings in the future.
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Series A $3.7M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $63M–$2B; Debt Financing $4M–$1.4B
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Tata Motors — About Us Tata Motors Limited, a USD 34 billion organisation, is a leading global automobile manufacturer with a portfolio that covers a wide range of cars, SUVs, buses, trucks, pickups and defence vehicles.
- Nightpeak Energy — Nightpeak Energy develops, owns, and operates power plants that support the growing capacity needs of a decarbonized grid.
- Sperber Landscape Companies — Sperber Landscape Companies is a landscape service provider serving customers.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Seed $338k–$5.3M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $96k–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.5M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
- Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions. The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Series A $747k–$10M; Series B $3.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
- Greenphard Energy — Greenphard Energy is a uniquely-placed startup in the field of intelligent IoT products based on AI and machine learning technologies. We provide SaaS solutions in the cloud for optimized control, remote monitoring, and analysis of industrial equipment, factories, and renewable energy facilities. We are also a demand response aggregator, helping tostabilize the power supply of the entire region.
Tetsuro Yoshimatsu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of istyle.
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- Industry: Legal, Sales, Biofuel
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coconala — Coconala operates a website to buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. It provides a broad range of services for sellers including fortune-telling, relieving mental anguish, illustration, design, consultation for hobbies, and travel destinations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Japan.
- Fermenstation — Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology.
Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $136k–$7M; Series B $5.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
- Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
- Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!
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Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
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