Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$397M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | $5.5M–$425M |
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical | $2M–$241M |
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Miyako Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $5.6M–$3B |
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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $7.1M–$142M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$77M |
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1.5M–$213M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$298M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Internet | $679k–$142M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $746k–$170M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $4.8M–$283M |
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Senshu Ikeda Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Internet | $1.5M–$142M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $2.7M–$850M |
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Medical | $3M–$425M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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WASEDA University Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Information Technology, Medical, Commercial | $1.2M–$75M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$624M |
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Japan Science and Technology Agency
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Medical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $1.7M–$255M |
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Series A, Seed | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical | $5M–$241M |
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Sosei CVC
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical | |
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QB Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology | $641k–$400M |
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Innovation Engine
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Spain | Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $664k–$85M |
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Kaga Electronics
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan | Series A, Seed | Education, Internet, E-Learning | $38M–$105M |
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Fuyo General Lease
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Corporate Round | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Sales | $4.3M–$241M |
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Miraidoa
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $933k–$125M |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3.1M–$85M |
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ReBoost
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Content, Medical, Hospital | |
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NCB Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series B, Seed, Series C | Recycling, Manufacturing, Management Consulting | $90k–$198M |
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Essential Pharma
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics | $38M–$78M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.9M–$142M |
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CareNet
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Life Science, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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Mitsui Mining & Smelting
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Series B | Medical, Water, AgTech | $8M–$50M |
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Tokyo Gas
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Energy, Robotics, Renewable Energy | $8M–$850M |
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Sompo Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Corporate Round, Seed | Health Care, Software, Analytics | $3.8M–$1.7B |
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Kyogin Lease & Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Medical, Manufacturing, Task Management | $6.1M–$340M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $429k–$500M |
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Media Future
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics | $38M–$78M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$369M |
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Fast Track Initiative, Inc.
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $1.1M–$184M |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Sweden | Series A, Series B | Energy, Internet of Things, Software | $2.4M–$553M |
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1.1M–$89M |
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Medical | |
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Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Medical, Health Care, Software | $403k–$50M |
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FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Chushin Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Retail, Travel, Home Decor | |
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Fujifilm
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Corporate Round | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $1.3M–$1.7B |
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SPARX Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $17M–$425M |
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Ohara Pharmaceutical
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Kenya, Nigeria | Series A, Series B | Medical, Biotechnology, Software | $10M–$184M |
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MedVenture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Medical Device, Health Care, Medical | $11M–$27M |
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Mitsubishi Gas Chemical
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed | Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Medical | $50M–$60M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 479
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
- Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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 andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 497
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$170M; Series B $6.4M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- PLUGO — PLUGO provides ever-evolving "hospitality services" suitable for the future EV era, combining products & digital technology unique to IoT.
- Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
- M&A Bazaar — M&A Bazaar provides the M&A Bazaar Method, a revolutionary M&A process that systematically solves the challenges encountered by traditional M&A procedures.
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $2M–$43M; Series A $2.1M–$241M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CastBio — Castbio specializes in antibody-drug conjugate-based drug discovery research and development. Along with medications, it also creates research reagents, medical equipment, in vitro diagnostic items, and offers drug discovery consulting.
- Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
- Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF). The company was founded in 2013 and based in Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan. Investment fields are: 1) Life Science, Biotechnology: Drug creation, regenerative medicine, medical beauty equipment, medical services.2) Agri-Food: Industrialization,agricultural and fishery products growth-promoting technology, specified health food, health food.3) Environment, Energy: Alternative energy, and related technologies.4) IT, Electronics: Web, mobile related devices and application, telecommunication technology, security, consumer and business oriented application, mechatronic, robot.5) New services utilizing state-of-art technology.Investment stages: Primary investment stages are initial-growth stages of seed and early. However, we aim at all growth stages and make investment in post-IPO portfolio companies as well as public companies that are related with Kyoto University.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $5.6M–$118M; Series A $6.1M–$70M; Series B $99M–$3B
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
- VLP Therapeutics — VLP Therapeutics, LLC (VLP) was established in 2012 by seasoned biopharmaceutical veterans with mission to develop innovative medical treatment which transforms traditional vaccine and targeted antibody therapies to address global unmet medical needs. Its vision is to combat the 21st century global public health problems through revolutionary nextgeneration i-αVLP (inserted alpha VLP) Technology. The company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland
- XFOREST Therapeutics — xFOREST Therapeutics develops a drug discovery platform that targets RNA structures.
Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$99M; Series A $16M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QunaSys — Quantum physics is a relatively new field built since the beginning of the 20th century, but we have used MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance equipment) and lasers used for close examinations in hospitals, and semiconductors mounted on computers. Supports the technology that supports the daily life of people.QunaSys was established to bring out thequantum physics that has been active behind the scenes to the front stage, and to make use of quantum properties to realize technologies that could not be achieved with existing technologies.
- Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.
- Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
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, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
- ZIRITZ — StockFormer is a real estate investment platform that connects investors with property opportunities. Users can calculate their asset score and gain a better understanding of their position and status as an investor, as well as their creditworthiness to financial institutions, among other things. Investors can exchange information on purchased andsold properties, as well as loan terms. The log provides investors with an understanding of the current real estate market conditions, investment conditions, and loan conditions that correspond to their asset formation level, allowing them to make appropriate investment decisions.
- CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$213M; Series A $7.4M–$155M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
- Optieum Biotechnologies — Optieum Biotechnologies Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing innovative scFv antibody-based therapies for the treatment of patients with cancers. Their proprietary platform technology, Eumbody System™, enables to develop and detect a scFv-based product candidates that specifically bind to, and modulate tooptimize the immune-cell function for oncology targets.We are committed to helping patients with severe diseases by bringing life-changing therapies to the patients in need.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
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 thecreations 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
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 265
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $8.3M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
- Secondz Digital — Secondz Digital is a company that helps businesses transform using generative AI agents.
DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $679k–$26M; Series A $4M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
- MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
- Acompany — Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$170M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
- Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
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Browse database — It's Free!SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 336
- Round size: Series A $4.8M–$170M; Series B $5.9M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
- Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
Senshu Ikeda Capital offers financial consultancy services.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$61M; Series A $1.9M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $177M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- TSK Corporation —
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- New Innovations — New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack oftalent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin.
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 thefifth-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, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 426
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $3.8M–$850M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
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- Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
- Enerbank Japan — Enerbank is a development and operation of electric power auction system.
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 newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Series A $3M–$85M; Series B $8.2M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
- Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 273
- Round size: Seed $362k–$46M; Series A $5.2M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
- 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.
WASEDA University Ventures (WUV) is a venture capital firm specialising in founding investments by creating new start-up companies that make use of academia and are based on "the practical application of scholarship". Our mission is to be a capitalist that implements academic knowledge and
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- Industry: Information Technology, Medical, Commercial
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$38M; Series A $1.3M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tres Alchemix — Tres Alchemix is an AI-driven biotechnology company focused on accelerating drug discovery, predicting drug efficacy, and developing novel therapeutic compounds using advanced machine learning and data-driven approaches.
- Pestalozzi Technology — Pestalozzi Technology is a development and provision of educational products in the fields of physical education and club activities.
- Gel-Coat Biomaterials — Gel-Coat Biomaterials is a biotechnology company that develops innovative bio-based materials and new medical technologies.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Round size: Seed $1M–$94M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization of science and technology that implements science and technology policy in Japan. It handles many projects, including the government’s Science and Technology Basic Plan and knowledge creation. The European Sustainability School ESSSR is the owner of Japan Science and TechnologyAgency.Japan Science and Technology Agency undertakes its task in a comprehensive manner. It also works to provide a sound infrastructure of science and technology information and raise awareness and understanding of science and technology-related issues in Japan.Japan Science and Technology Agency is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$50M; Series A $3.1M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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- OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
- Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
- Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $5M–$43M; Series A $6M–$241M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
- Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
- MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Sosei CVC is support the creation and growth of life science companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Junten Bio — JUNTEN BIO is a company is to develop new technologies in the field of regenerative medicine.
- Chromocenter — Chromocenter is a next generation biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing company. It uses technologies such as artificial chromosome vectors, mainly for drug discovery such as medical pharmaceuticals
- Noile-Immune Biotech — Neurymune Biotech Co., Ltd. is a national cancer research center specializing in the development of cancer immunotherapies based on CAR-T cell therapy and a venture company from Yamaguchi University. They aim to be a leading company responsible for the next generation in the field of cancer immunotherapy.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $641k–$43M; Series A $5.2M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $429M in 2015
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- Equmenopolis — Equmenopolis is an information services company that specializes in conversational AI agent platforms and application developments.
- Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
- Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series A $664k–$71M; Series C $44M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $191M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- Openverse Global — Openverse operates as a Layer 0 hub, providing a foundational framework for decentralized applications and services.
Kaga Electronics is a Japan based company engages in the sales of electronic components, electronic devices and other. It operates through following segments: Electronic Components, Information Equipment, Software and Other. The firm generates majority revenue from the Electronic Components.
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- Industry: Education, Internet, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $38M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- 17LIVE — Flip action technology, connect the world together; integrate instant audio and video into life, and create a new generation of action audio and video. No matter where you are, in any corner of the world, you can connect with the world anytime, anywhere through the 17LIVE platform, show your talent and enthusiasm, realize your dreams, and createyour own wonderful life.
- DriveX — DriveX is a consulting firm that helps in creating new businesses using AI solutionst.
- Linkage — Linkage is a Online health support business and Online specific health guidance.
Fuyo General Lease focuses in the leasing and installment sales trading of equipment and fixtures, and financial transaction. The company provides leasing services of information-related equipment, office equipment, and industrial equipment, installment sales of commercial facilities, production facilities, and hospital facilities. It also providessecurities management services and anonymous association composition.Fuyo General Lease was founded on 1969 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $21M–$241M; Corporate Round $4.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Quants — Quants uses AI qualitative credit technology to provide financing services. The company creates Type 21, an artificial intelligence with a credit screening circuit that runs automatically. HIF aims to provide appropriate funds to corporations and individuals.
- avatarin — avatarin develops next-generation mobility and human augmentation platforms.
- 3D Printing Corporation — 3D Printing Corporation provides 3D printing technology solutions.
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: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $933k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Flights — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
- Tear Exo — Tear Exo is a biotechnology research company that produces and sells liquid biopsy using materials for molecular recognition.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
- OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
- Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
ReBoost specializes in recruiting and training business.
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- Industry: Content, Medical, Hospital
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Medii — Medii provides a physician sharing service for hospitals.
- digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
- viviane — viviane is running Japan's best video streaming guide, 1Screen.
NCB Venture Capital provides investment to companies.
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- Industry: Recycling, Manufacturing, Management Consulting
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $90k–$115M; Series B $4.7M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.
- Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Essential Pharma provided on this site is created for the purpose of providing information on our ethical drugs to medical professionals
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $38M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
- HekaBio — HekaBio connects world-leading healthcare innovations to unmet medical needs in the Asia Pacific, with broad category development expertise in pharma, medical device, in-vitro diagnostics, digital health, and cell & gene therapies.
- Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.9M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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Browse database — It's Free!CareNet is a marketing company providing various solutions to pharma companies through the management of media specialized in medical/pharmaceutical education for HCPs. For more than 20 years and since its foundation in 1996, CareNet has continually provided places for exchanging therapeutic information, as well as valuable solutions to HCPsand pharmaceutical companies from the position of the No. 1 media in clinical medical education.
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- Industry: Life Science, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Modalis Therapeutics — Modalis Therapeutics Corporation is an biotech company focusing on developing transformative therapeutics for unmet medical needs using its proprietary technologies on CRISPR and protein engineering platforms. The company has a strong foundation on intellectual property licensed from the University of Tokyo.
- DiscGenics — DiscGenics is focused on developing regenerative therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine.
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company, Ltd. mainly produces non-ferrous metal such as lead and copper alloys.
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- Industry: Medical, Water, AgTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Alpha Fusion — Alpha Fusion Inc. is a clinical-stage startup committed to transforming cancer treatment through the design and development of powerful and precise radiopharmaceuticals.
- Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
- WaHa — WaHa's innovative atmospheric water generator creates sustainable water solutions from air. Experience pure water generation with the WaHa Vaporator system.
Tokyo Gas provides energy solutions and engages in the production and supply of city gas. Tokyo Gas is a provider of city gas, serving more than 11 million customers for over 130 years, primarily in the Tokyo metropolitan area and surrounding Kanto region. The company was established in 1885 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Energy, Robotics, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series B $8M–$850M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
- Ugo — UGO is creating future avatar robots and a platform that connects the administration of multiple robots to achieve the ''fusion of humans and robots,'' or ''collaboration with robots to perform employment that used to be performed only by humans.
- MeetsMore — MeetsMore is a service that matches professionals and users who mainly provide face-to-face services
Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services. In addition to the core businesses of domestic non-life insurance business, overseas insurance business, domestic life insurance business, and long-term care/senior business, they will develop new business strategies in the fields of digitaland healthcare.It was established in 2010 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Series B, Corporate Round, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$8.5M; Series B $6M–$1.7B; Corporate Round $28M–$960M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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- Wejo — We unlock limitless possibilities with connected vehicle data
- Tier IV — Tier IV is a federated academic startup embracing research and development of intelligent vehicles.Founded in December 2015, Tier IV has led the development of open-source software for self-driving technology, also known as Autoware, and applied it for the proof of concept of last-mile driverless mobility and logistics. Tier IV aspires to achieve“Democratization of Intelligent Vehicles”, where any individuals and organizations can contribute to a grander vision of future intelligent vehicles, leading to a better society in which all the people receive new spatio-temporal values.
- Zego — Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problemwith traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.
Kyogin Lease & Capital is an investment firm that specializes in the leasing, stock and bond investment and public offering consulting.
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- Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series A $6.1M–$57M; Series B $38M–$340M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
- 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.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
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- Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.
- Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
Media Future is a group of communication technology professionals that works on connecting feelings and thoughts. The Tokyo, Tokyo-based company was established in 2013.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $38M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
- HekaBio — HekaBio connects world-leading healthcare innovations to unmet medical needs in the Asia Pacific, with broad category development expertise in pharma, medical device, in-vitro diagnostics, digital health, and cell & gene therapies.
- Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
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- Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
- CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Fast Track Initiative is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences and healthcare services.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$117M; Series A $1.1M–$142M; Series B $7.7M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2021
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- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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- Industry: Energy, Internet of Things, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$105M; Series B $8M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
- Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$47M; Series A $3M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
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- AViC — AViC is providing digital marketing and advertising services.
- StartPass —
- SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
- Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on startups in the healthcare industry.Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital that operates a venture fund specializing in the healthcare field. It is the only healthcare-specialized VC in Japan that can provide 30 medical institutions as a business trialfield.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $403k–$17M; Series A $15M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- A-SEEDS — A-SEEDS, an innovative biotech company sprouted from Shinshu University, is dedicated to pioneering advanced treatments for life-threatening cancers. Harnessing the potential of non-viral genetic engineering, our cutting-edge immune cell therapy opens up new horizons of hope for patients seeking effective and transformative solutions.
- AMI — AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.
- Do. Sukasu — Do. Sukasu is a software company that specializes in the development of visual space perception ability for brain science approaches.
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- FELIQS — FELIQS is a preclinical-stage start-up company established based on the robust science from molecular pathobiology, department of pharmaceutical science, Kyushu university.
- ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
- OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
Chushin Venture Capital is a venture capital fund established by Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank.
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- Industry: Retail, Travel, Home Decor
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Cizucu — Cizucu is a stock photo community that helps creators and brands to create photos.
- HOLO BIO — HOLO BIO is a research and technology firm that employs biological breeding techniques to address the food challenges faced by humanity.
- RadioNano Therapeutics — RadioNano Therapeutics is developing innovative drugs for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), a type of radiation therapy that utilizes the nuclear reaction between thermal neutrons and boron-10 (¹⁰B) to destroy cancer cells by releasing alpha particles and lithium nuclei.
Fujifilm develops and sells consumer products and business products related to photography. Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is a Japanese multinational photography and imaging company. The company serves various industries, including medical, graphic arts, optics, enterprise storage, motion picture, and photography.The company’s consumer productsare categorized as digital cameras and accessories, film photography, Instax photography, and binoculars. Its business products are categorized as medical systems, Fujinon endoscopy, microfilm, data storage, graphic arts and printing, professional video, optical devices, specialty chemicals, printing imaging colorants, and more. Color films, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color papers, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging equipment, graphic arts equipment and materials, flat panel displays, and photocopiers and printers are some products developed by Fujifilm USA.Fujifilm USA is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $15M–$425M; Corporate Round $1.3M–$1.7B
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ripcord — Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering. Its focus is on smart robotics digitization, smart content management with AI, and helping enable RPA and business processes.Ripcord is based in Hayward, California, and is backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,Google Ventures, Lux Ventures, Legend Star, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.
- Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
- VALANX Biotech — VALANX Biotech is a site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable fast and cost efficient protein-drug-conjugates development.
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:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Series A $17M–$241M; Series B $25M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.1B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
- Alloyed — Alloyed delivers cutting-edge innovation in materials science, additive manufacturing, and advanced metallurgy. Explore our technologies and career opportunities.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $10M–$78M; Series B $30M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
- Revital Healthcare — Revital Healthcare is a manufacturer of medical devices and disposables for hospitals and other medical laboratories. It offers single-use syringes, needles, re-use prevention syringes and auto-disable syringes which helps in reducing the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases along with infusion sets, blood transfusion sets and bloodcollection tubesThe company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Kilifi, Kenya.
MedVenture Partners invests in seed to early stage projects and start-ups in the life science field focusing mainly on medical devices.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $11M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alivas — Alivas is a medical company that develops new therapeutic medical devices for refractory constipation. It is a joint venture between Stanford University and the University of Tokyo with the Japan Biodesign program for innovative medical device creation. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hongo, Tokyo in Japan.
- SentiAR — SentiAR is digital health, software device company adding a new dimension to clinical practice in interventional procedures. Spun out of Washington University, we are developing the first 3D visualization platform using real-time holography of the patient's anatomy and catheter location, "floating" over the patients, with a goal toprovide the clinician and patient a faster, safer delivery of care.SentiAR’s mission is to transform the experience for both patient and clinician in interventional procedures with a 3D augmented reality platform featuring real-time holographic visualization of the patient’s actual anatomy, “floating” over the patient.The visualization is fully controllable “hands-free” by the clinician, providing an ergonomic breakthrough for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias within an interventional catheter lab environment. SentiAR is developing the platform for eventual FDA submission.
- Avisi Technologies — Avisi Technologies is developing a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical contributes to societal growth and harmony by creating a wide range of value through chemistry.
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- Industry: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $50M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Resource Chemical — Resource Chemical develops CO2 into high-performance plastics that do not pollute the environment. The company's headquarters are in Berkeley, California.
- Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
- TKG Therapeutics — Tokyo Nucleic Acid Synthesis is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing nucleic acid drugs using new-age medical technology.
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