Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 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 | $1.2M–$269M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2.3M–$269M |
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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $3M–$142M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2M–$227M |
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UntroD Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care | $772k–$241M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Internet | $679k–$122M |
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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 | $610k–$71M |
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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 | $750k–$354M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $1.8M–$340M |
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Japan Science and Technology Agency
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Medical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $1.7M–$255M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $792k–$62M |
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $1.5M–$64M |
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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, Information Technology | $1.5M–$269M |
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Senshu Ikeda Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Internet | $1M–$92M |
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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 | $1.9M–$198M |
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IT-Farm
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $1.8M–$20M |
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HERO Impact Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Solar, Energy, Robotics | $386k–$106M |
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WASEDA University Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed, Convertible Note | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Medical | $1.2M–$38M |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, France | Series A, Seed | Software, Task Management, Internet | $4.3M–$71M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $497k–$115M |
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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 | $314k–$91M |
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Real Tech Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Austria | Series A, Seed | Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical | $1.2M–$241M |
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QB Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology | $641k–$213M |
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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$85M |
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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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SPARX Asset Management
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Energy, Medical | |
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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–$78M |
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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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Tokyo Gas
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Robotics, Renewable Energy | $8M–$71M |
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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 | $11M–$425M |
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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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PALTEK
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Medical, Software, Life Science | |
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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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MedVenture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Medical Device, Health Care, Medical | $2.4M–$27M |
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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–$213M |
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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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Chushin Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Retail, Travel, Home Decor | |
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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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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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Kyogin Lease & Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Manufacturing, Task Management, Medical | $515k–$61M |
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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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Capital Medica Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Medical, Health Care, Software | $403k–$50M |
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Ohara Pharmaceutical
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Kenya, Nigeria | Series A, Series B | Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care | $10M–$184M |
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ReBoost
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Content, Medical, Hospital | |
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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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Mitsui Mining & Smelting
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Medical, Water, AgTech | $8M–$50M |
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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 | $1.2M–$184M |
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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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Sosei CVC
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical | |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Energy, Internet of Things, Software | $2M–$553M |
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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: 547
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- 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.
- Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
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, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 551
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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: 82
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$50M; Series A $3M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Orbital Lasers — Orbital is a space tech company that provides space debris business to remove debris and a satellite LiDAR business to provide surface data.
- Toregem BioPharma — Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia. Toregem BioPharma is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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: 374
- Round size: Series A $2M–$156M; Series B $4.9M–$227M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Direava —
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $772k–$43M; Series A $2.1M–$241M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still 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.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- Formas.AI — Formas.AI is a multi-modal, AI-powered design platform specifically built for architects, designers, and educators to generate and visualize creative architectural concepts.
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: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $679k–$8M; Series A $1.1M–$103M; Series B $6.5M–$122M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Imiron — Imiron the process and tools used for modeling mathematical behavior in order to comprehend its fundamentals.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- CULTA —
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: 254
- Round size: Seed $610k–$43M; Series A $2.5M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
- 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.
- Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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 $750k–$43M; Series A $6.1M–$75M; Series B $3.7M–$354M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Mui Lab — Mui is an aesthetically-pleasing wooden IoT device connected to a cloud service. By accessing information through natural wood, we can rethink a new type of lifestyle.
- 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.
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
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, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 459
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$115M; Series B $2.4M–$340M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe —
- FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
- Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
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: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$50M; Series A $2.3M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Solaris — Solaris commercializes, manufactures, and sells soft robotics using pneumatic artificial muscles. Solaris was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $792k–$62M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
- Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
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: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$57M; Series A $2.3M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
- Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
- Orbital Lasers — Orbital is a space tech company that provides space debris business to remove debris and a satellite LiDAR business to provide surface data.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$74M; Series B $3.3M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
- 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.
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: 65
- Round size: Seed $1M–$61M; Series A $1.9M–$92M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $177M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Molmir — Molmir is a biotech company that conducts research and develops treatments for intractable diseases based on sensing technology.
- LEP —
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
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: 294
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$170M; Series B $7M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
- TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
- Global Equipment Services — As a strategic partner to developers of multi-sector products, Averna provides innovative automated testing tool and quality assurance solutions.
HERO Impact Capital is a venture capital firm that co-founds research and development startups.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $386k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$106M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SODEN — SODEN is a technology company that develops and sells electric vehicle chargers and their management software.
- Voicetep —
- Kick Space Technologies —
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: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$38M; Series A $1.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CoreTissue BioEngineering — CoreTissue BioEngineering is a development of an artificial ligament for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in Japan.
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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- Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $4.5M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
- 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.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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: 258
- Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Series A $2.4M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
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- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
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- Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 293
- Round size: Seed $314k–$18M; Series A $2.7M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
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- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- 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.
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 $1.2M–$43M; Series A $6M–$241M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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- 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.
QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $641k–$43M; Series A $1.3M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $429M in 2015
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- Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
- Equmenopolis — Equmenopolis is an information services company that specializes in conversational AI agent platforms and application developments.
- Surv Biopharma — Surv Biopharma develops a drug discovery platform that facilitates research and development of veterinary drugs and pharmaceutical products.
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: 123
- Round size: Seed $1M–$33M; Series A $2.8M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
- 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.
- NanoFrontier — NanoFrontier continues to market technologies that are widely available and incredibly inexpensive.
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.
SPARX Asset Management engages in investment management, advisory, and first and second-class financial instruments business. It was founded with the aim of becoming "the most trusted and respected investment company in the world". The firm was established in 2006 and is based in Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Energy, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
- 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.
- Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
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: 182
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$48M; Series A $3.6M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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- 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.
- TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
- Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $17M–$71M; Series B $8M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Shizen Connect — Shizen Connect develops energy management systems that coordinate distributed energy resources such as battery storage systems, electric vehicles, solar power equipment, and virtual power plant platforms. The company provides software and control services that support demand response, battery storage operations, microgrid management, remotemonitoring, and energy optimization for utilities, real estate companies, and energy operators. Its platform integrates IoT and cloud-based technologies to manage energy consumption, electricity trading, and grid balancing across residential, commercial, and industrial environments. Shizen Connect also offers edge devices and SaaS-based tools that support remote metering, energy visualization, and device control across multiple energy assets.
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: 78
- Round size: Series A $11M–$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
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- 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 — Alloyed delivers cutting-edge innovation in materials science, additive manufacturing, and advanced metallurgy. Explore our technologies and career opportunities.
- UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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- 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.
PALTEK offers semiconductor products to electronics manufacturers and design consignment services.
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- Industry: Medical, Software, Life Science
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
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
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- 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.
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:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $6.3M–$9.9M; Series A $11M–$27M; Series B $2.4M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- A-Wave — A-Wave is a manufacturing company that develops and markets medical devices, pharmaceuticals, computer software, and hardware.
- Quali — Quali is dedicated to developing innovative products and solutions that support microsurgery, with the goal of addressing critical challenges in the medical field and improving patient outcomes and overall quality of life.
- Avisi Technologies — Avisi Technologies is developing a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma.
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: 144
- Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
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- NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
- Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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: 77
- Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
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- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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
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- 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.
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: 18
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$8.5M; Series B $6M–$1.7B; Corporate Round $28M–$960M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Pulsora — Use Pulsora to centralize and automate ESG metrics collection, measure carbon emissions, prepare reports and disclosures, and track performance.
- 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.
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.
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: Manufacturing, Task Management, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $515k–$61M; Series A $6.1M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- IKOU — IKOU is an inclusive brand for babies and children that creates products valued by all users. The company's featured products include portable seats, bibs, and children's clothing products along with online 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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
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).
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: 13
- Round size: Seed $403k–$17M; Series A $15M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
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- Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $10M–$78M; Series B $30M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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- 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.
- Africa Healthcare Network — Africa Healthcare Network (“AHN”) has established the first dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis at affordable cost. AHN brings world-class technical expertise combined with developing world practical operating experience to a region in dire need of quality dialysis treatment. Dialysis is alife-saving treatment for patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The few hospitals that provide treatment operate centers that are slowly deteriorating while charging prohibitive prices. Additionally, the lack of trained professionals and limited capital investment in care for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, dialysis centers are few and far between, causing patients to endure the high costs for travel to receive care. Those who cannot afford the costs of treatment and travel are resigned to death. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and AKI are on the rise in the region due to strong epidemiologic factors, including increased urbanization leading to lifestyle diseases, other non-communicable diseases, HIV and other infections and toxins. Utilizing our network of executives/partners, we will secure high-quality equipment and train professionals to provide superior care. Our ability to source lowest cost consumables, operational efficiency and scale, will allow us to lower the cost to patients. The net result is increased access, higher quality and lower cost to patients, while maintaining profitability.AHN operates in Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya.
ReBoost specializes in recruiting and training business.
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- Industry: Content, Medical, Hospital
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- 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.
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
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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).
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $8M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $22M–$29M
- 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.
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: 80
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$117M; Series A $1.5M–$113M; Series B $7.7M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
- Storm Therapeutics — Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Series A $2M–$105M; Series B $3.7M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M 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.
- Hacobell — Hacobell is a logistics company that offers services in freight servicing, dispatch, and delivery.
- Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
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