Top 50 Local Startup Investors in Asia (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $253k–$34M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $516k–$48M |
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $689k–$32M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $289k–$20M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $30k–$20M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $25k–$5M |
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HSG
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $4.4M–$200M |
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Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center
VC Fund
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2 | China | Angel, Series A | Education, Art, Local | $458k–$486k |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Local, Content | $610k–$4.3M |
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion | $5M–$200M |
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Neoteny Labs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, China | Series A, Angel | TV, Local, Music | $1.5M–$11M |
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Smilegate Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $694k–$47M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $665k–$30M |
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Bank of Yokohama
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Finance, Energy, Banking | $6.3M–$389M |
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Senyan Ziben
VC Fund
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1 | China | Angel | Local, Automotive, Customer Service | |
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58.com
VC Fund
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1 | China, India, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Real Estate, Retail, Internet | $1.5M–$300M |
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Trupti Nanavati
Angel
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1 | China | Angel | Local, Messaging, Navigation | |
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China Rundong Auto Group
VC Fund
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1 | China | Seed | Local, Automotive, Service Industry | |
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Honest Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Medical | $1.8k–$20M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.3M–$62M |
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AVentures Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ukraine, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $400k–$28M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $1M–$19B |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $556k–$19M |
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Suning Finance
VC Fund
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1 | China | Angel | Local, Automotive, Customer Service | |
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Decent Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $425k–$25M |
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Mitsui Global Investment
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, Canada | Series C, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.5M–$45M |
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Yokohama National University
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Local, Service Industry | |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$269M |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Canada | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Energy, Software, Internet of Things | $915k–$60M |
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Amit Nanavati
Angel
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1 | China, India | Seed, Angel, Series A | Local, Banking, Messaging | |
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POSCO Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $45k–$44M |
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Dongbu Ziben
VC Fund
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1 | China | Angel, Series A | Local, Retail, Big Data | $435k–$469k |
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JC Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, Vietnam, Philippines | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $704k–$15M |
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Swiss Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $210k–$5.5M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$36M |
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Lighthouse Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Czech Republic | Series A, Seed, Angel | Hardware, Software, Manufacturing | $436k–$50M |
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Jimoty
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Local, Real Estate, Service Industry | |
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Hana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $273k–$13M |
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $100k–$33M |
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NetAge
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed, Series A | News, Local, Big Data | |
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Enlight Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $94k–$20M |
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ORIX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan | Series A, Series C | Software, Internet, Analytics | |
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Content | $253k–$89M |
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Triplestar Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed | Food and Beverage, B2B, Local | $800k–$16M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Heyi Ziben
VC Fund
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1 | China | Angel, Series B, Series A | Gaming, Automotive, Virtual Reality | $449k–$10M |
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F Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Service Industry | |
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $266k–$27M |
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Xiaomi
VC Fund
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1 | China, India, United States | Series A, Series B, Angel | Manufacturing, Software, Electronics | $435k–$70M |
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Nextrans
VC Fund
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1 | Vietnam, South Korea, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $865k–$15M |
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Round size: Seed $253k–$9.4M; Series A $967k–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $619k–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
- Green Growth Co. — Green Growth Co. is a startup company engaged in next-generation infrastructure projects centered on renewable energy. The company develops grid-scale battery storage facilities and solar power plants, as well as revitalizes and trades secondary solar assets, thereby creating power sources for both local communities and corporations. It also supports the enhancement of power source value through initiatives such as the digitalization of existing generation facilities, repowering, conversion to the Feed-in Premium scheme, and the co-location of battery storage systems. Furthermore, by aggregating distributed renewable energy resources—via services such as aggregation, Power Purchase Agreements and retail supply—the company implements mechanisms to optimize supply and demand while fostering a circular flow of electricity within local regions. Green Growth also provides hands-on support to companies, assisting them with their Green Transformation initiatives as well as the formulation of power business strategies and the design of operational schemes.
- Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain has managed a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 858
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $516k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
- Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $689k–$20M; Series A $1.9M–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients.
- Prossel Holdings — Prossel Holdings are a holding company based in Niigata, building the future of manufacturing and technology.
- Kaminashi — Kaminashi is a developer of workplace digitization software designed to keep track of on-site work records. Their functions are to do work on a smartphone or tablet with a simple screen that can be used by anyone and display check criteria in a manual with images.
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 414
- Round size: Seed $289k–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $368k–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Tell us about anything development-related. Our founder, who launched Niconico Live, SUGAR and GANMA! from scratch, helps with planning, design, development and operations.
- Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: China, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 577
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Convertible Note $30k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3821
- Round size: Seed $125k–$5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
- Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women.
We help founders build enduring companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 751
- Round size: Series A $4.4M–$100M; Series B $12M–$200M; Series C $28M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
- Yunzhou Zhiwei — Yunzhou Zhiwei is a high-tech startup focused on serving large-scale equipment maintenance industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, and rail transit. It leverages smart maintenance concepts and advanced digital technologies to make complex equipment maintenance more efficient and lean. The company drives industrial transformationtoward intelligent maintenance, helping enterprises enhance growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.
Beijing Yiming Education Investment Center provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.
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- Industry: Education, Art, Local
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $458k–$486k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nbugs.com — nbugs.com is a bureau school integrated management platform that connects the education bureau and the schools in the jurisdiction. They offer notification management, administrative approval, meeting management, on site supervision, developmental evaluation, and a satisfaction survey.
- Zhuomuniao — Zhuomuniao is an appliance repair service platform.
- Wonder Painter — Wonder Painter offers human-computer interaction and augmented reality services. It provides playful technologies and experiences. Their patents are in natural user interaction, computer vision, computer graphics, and augmented reality.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $610k–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $6.2M–$200M; Series C $16M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
- welevel — Building games with attitude
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Browse database — It's Free!Neoteny Labs is an early stage fund focused on consumer Internet startups in Asia and the Middle East.
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- Industry: TV, Local, Music
- Stage:Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.6M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- TripVillas — Tripvillas partners with developers, landowners and homeowner associations to turn residential resort communities into professionally managed, revenue-generating holiday home destinations. Singapore, Bengaluru and Toronto.
- Twine Health — Fitbit Health Solutions' wellness and health solutions can help keep your population healthy and drive meaningful employee engagement. Learn more.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companies with promising growth potential.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $694k–$6.6M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $3.6M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RX — RX is a startup that provides an on-site analysis solution for material properties, mainly serving environment, energy, inspection, and testing needs. It also develops technology related to next-generation nuclear power plants and agentic AI, supported by national R&D activity.This company helps industries assess materials and engineeringconditions more efficiently and accurately.
- Vectorial AI — Vectorial is a human behavior simulation platform that helps teams understand how their target audience thinks, reacts, and responds before building a product, launching a campaign, or making a strategic decision. The platform allows users to simulate distinct audiences to predict their reactions to product ideas, designs, messaging, content, and experiences.
- AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $665k–$9.4M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $2.7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
- Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
- Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
Bank of Yokohama regional bank in Japan, operating mainly in Kanagawa Prefecture and southwestern Tokyo. The bank was founded in 1920 as a regional bank to serve customers in Kanagawa Prefecture and southwestern Tokyo. It was formed in the wake of the collapse of several existing banks in the region, one of which (Dai-Ni Bank) began operations in 1869 as Yokohama Bank (横浜為替会社), the first modern financial institution in Japan; consequentially, Bank of Yokohama claims to have the longest history of any Japanese bank.[
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- Industry: Finance, Energy, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $30M–$167M; Debt Financing $6.3M–$389M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
- 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.
- Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
Senyan Ziben offers asset management, investment management and investment consulting.
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- Industry: Local, Automotive, Customer Service
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xiaoyi Aiche — Xiaoyi Aiche application-oriented technology company. They provides research and development of core technologies such as systems, equipment, and chips, and has conducted in-depth cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions to introduce new technological achievements and relevant industries. They provides services in thefields of car service and community convenience service.
58.com is a Chinese classified advertisements website enabling local merchants and consumers to publish information and advertise their service offerings in local communities. 58.com’s package includes target consumer group identification, services and products advertising, online marketing service, and customer relations management. Its aim is to provide a forum for the low income and jobless group. As the biggest online classifieds publisher, 58.com provides free, localized and credible information for voluntary users. Founded on December 12, 2005, and headquartered in Beijing, 58.com is China's for-profit version of Craigslist in the United States. It received $25 million in funding as investments from Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) partners and DCM. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 31, 2013. As of November 2010, 58.com has set up branches in 32 cities, with 6,500 full-time staff serving over 50 million registered users. The site’s user base continues to grow, with more than 50,000 new users added per day. The average number of page views per unique visitor per day is 10, with 1 million posts per day. Due to its increasing website traffic volume and number of unique visitors and page views, 58.com is ranked the first among local life service websites. Its main competitors include Ganji.com and Baixing.com.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: China, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$16M; Series B $20M–$300M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plum — Plum is an e-commerce platform for second-hand fashion products. It works as a one-stop consignment service platform that provides filming, sales, customer service, sale, and a full set of consignment services. Plum was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
- Yidianling — Yidianling is a psychological counselling platform that provides free mental health services such as free questions and answers, psychological tests, expert services, and training lectures.
- Interhouse.cn — Don Quixote is a commercial digital platform that provides digital integration of design, construction, and operation delivery service. It uses BIM, cloud computing, big data, IoT, AI, and other information technologies to build a platform for chain commercial spaces.
China Rundong Auto Group Limited is an investment holding company which through its subsidiaries operates luxury automobile dealership stores and showrooms in the People’s Republic of China. It also provides after-sales services such as repair and maintenance services; sale of spare parts, and accessories and other automobile-related products. Inaddition, the company offers automobile-related value-added services such as consulting services for automobile purchase financing, automobile insurance agency services, facilitating the trading of pre-owned automobiles, and automobile financial lease and related consulting services. China Rundong Auto Group Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Shanghai, China.
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- Industry: Local, Automotive, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: China
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Che Dada — Che Dada is a community-based aftermarket car service brand.
Honest Ventures invests in biotechnology, healthcare, manufacturing, software, and information and communications technology. They support the growth of businesses and believe investing is a collaboration.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $547k–$4.9M; Series A $1.8k–$3.1M; Series B $7.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
- ST.RETAIL — ST.RETAIL provides an all-in-one solution, from development to distribution of low-sugar products utilizing local agricultural products and stevia.
- Livit — Livit is a SaaS based platform that offers carbon emission management solutions for the manufacturing and construction industries.
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". SBI Investment 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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 457
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $4.5M–$62M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
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- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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Browse database — It's Free!AVentures Capital invests at early stage and looks to team up with amazing entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, who build global businesses. The Fund's investment focus will be across software tech space, including cloud, storage, enterprise solutions, web, mobile, IoT and other software tech related.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ukraine, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.4M; Series A $7.5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2015
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- Dexalot — A revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel through a decentralized on-chain application
- Fintech Farm — Creating successful neobanks in emerging markets
- Ledger Works — Blockchain consumers face significant and increasing cyber-crime. And Web3 security efforts focus on DeFi providers, not retail users. A crypto account holder should be able to receive the same fraud alerts and protection they have come to expect from their bank or credit card accounts. Our service provides account notification and cyber-crimeprotection to Crypto account holders.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business. The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operating environment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Post-IPO Debt $150M–$19B; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qupital — Qupital helps e-commerce sellers with our Fintech, bringing them a financing solution that is easier to apply, more efficient and at a lower cost.
- Bird — Deliver transactional notifications, run marketing broadcasts, and handle two-way customer replies across Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, and Voice with Bird's REST API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server.
- DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform that deploys, manages, and scales applications of any size. Its infrastructure and platform-as-a-service solutions provide a no DevOps required experience, allowing developers to focus their energy on creating innovative software. By combining the power of simplicity, love for the developer community, anobsession for customer service, and the advantages of open source, DigitalOcean brings software development within the technical and economic reach of anyone around the world.DigitialOcean was formed in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $556k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
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- 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
- Ocean — Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike.
- Voxela, Inc. — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
The financial services unit of Chinese electronics retailer Suning Commerce Group Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Local, Automotive, Customer Service
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Xiaoyi Aiche — Xiaoyi Aiche application-oriented technology company. They provides research and development of core technologies such as systems, equipment, and chips, and has conducted in-depth cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions to introduce new technological achievements and relevant industries. They provides services in thefields of car service and community convenience service.
Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited. Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to Series A, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: China, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $425k–$14M; Angel $425k–$2.9M; Series A $1.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SigmaZ AI — SigmaZ AI Lab is a visual intelligence lab for the AGI era, redefining the interface between humans and information.
- Apex Intelligence — Apex Intelligence is an artificial intelligence research laboratory that develops self-evolving foundation models designed to autonomously advance open-ended scientific discovery.
- Qingyu Technology — Qingyu Technology is a software development service company specializing in the research, development, and sales of intelligent robots.
Guiding entrepreneurs onto the global stage.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series C, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $4.5M–$45M; Series C $9.3M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waypoint Bio — Waypoint's proprietary spatial multi-omics platform enables us to solve critical issues around understanding how cell therapies navigate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment and allow the measurement of cell-to-cell interactions.
- Tacit Therapeutics — Tacit Therapeutics created RNA-targeting treatments for devastating diseases. By repurposing pre-existing components of human cells, we have created the first broadly applicable and inherently non-immunogenic means to repair mutated genes. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in South San Francisco, California.
- Rhino Federated Computing — Activate sensitive data for AI, analytics, and agents with privacy-preserving Rhino Federated Computing.
Investment focus
- Industry: Local, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- EggSmart — EggSmart solves various problems in the egg and poultry industry.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 477
- Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
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- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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, Software, Internet of Things
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$14M; Series B $3.7M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $915k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.1M in 2019
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- Esa — Esa offers plastic waste recycling, and also the development and distribution of plastic products
- ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
- Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
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Browse database — It's Free!POSTECH Venture Capital Corporation(POSTECH VC) was founded and financed by POSCO to participate in SME(small and medium enterprise) Revitalization Policy in 1997 for the National Economy Restoration. We seek investment opportunities in diverse markets including Information Technologies, Advanced Materials, Bio Technologies, Renewable Energy, and Life Sciences. And we are to accelerate the commercialization of the valuable technologies from POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology), RIST(Research institute of Industrial Science and Technology), and other institutes in Korea. More than 200 professors in POSTECH help POSTECH VC evaluate the technologies POSTECH VC is comprised of a team consisted of experienced venture capitalists who has previous experiences in successful startups, consulting firms, and executive management. We are currently investing from our several funds and manage over 60 billion Won. Our recent primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in renewable energy such as bio-diesel and photovoltaic technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Series A $344k–$7.2M; Series B $3.2M–$44M; Venture - Series Unknown $45k–$24M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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- TESOLLO — Explore Tesollo multi-finger robotic grippers and dexterous robotic hands for precise manipulation, industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and Physical AI.
- Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.
- NaraSpace Technology — NaraSpace Technology specializes in the design, development, integration, and testing of CubeSats and small space systems.
Dongbu Ziben offer investment management service.
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- Industry: Local, Retail, Big Data
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $435k–$469k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Fanhaoyue — Fanhaoyue provides local catering life and new retail services.
- Weitianshi — Hangzhou Touzhule Network Technology provides venture capital data and tool applications for financial advisors, investment managers, investors, and entrepreneurial service agencies. They also provide data services for investors and investment institutions.
- maidiyun.com — maidiyun.com is an online platform that displays comprehensive information for manufacturing equipment and peripheral products as component 3D model samples, helping industrial designers find the products and resources they need.
JC Capital is a venture capital institution specialized in early and mid-term technology investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, Vietnam, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $704k–$5.9M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.9M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
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- Ruishi Technology — Ruishi Technology develops Myopia prevention and control medical devices.
- Giant Microbiology — Giant Microbiology is a company that produces synthetic biological raw materials in an environmentally friendly manner for the fields of beauty and daily chemicals, functional foods, and medical beauty.. The business focuses on creating "high-gross-profit innovative products" that satisfy consumer demand and offer useful, cutting-edge rawmaterial solutions, with bioactive sugars serving as its starting point. Hyaluronic acid, oligosaccharides, and functional oligosaccharides are among the goods it primarily develops and produces.
- Guangna Development — Guangna Siwei is an optoelectronic device seller.
Swiss Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Switzerland. We invest CHF 100k-300k in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4M; Pre-Seed $210k–$3.3M; Series A $2.1M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- Reno Home — Reno is your ultimate destination for all your home or office renovation needs. Whether you're revamping your living space, workspace, or any other area, we've got you covered. Our mission is to link you with top-notch interior designers perfectly tailored to your style preferences. Moreover, we facilitate connections with skilledrenovators who can execute your envisioned design flawlessly. Count on us to ensure punctuality and uphold superior quality throughout the renovation process. Additionally, we offer financing options with 12 months to pay later, making it even easier to transform your space according to your vision
- Coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.
- WolfPak — WolfPak is an AI based e-learning platform that offers training, guidance, and assessments for corporate professionals.
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to the creations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 391
- Round size: Series A $2M–$33M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
Lighthouse Capital Management is an early venture capital fund focusing on the Chinese and US markets. It has been focusing on angel/VC equity investment in excellent content and products and currently manages two RMB Fund and a dollar fund. The firm has invested in more than 40 growth projects in mainland China and overseas, focusing on hardware equipment and "Internet +" method empowerment and enterprise data services. It is managing billions of dollars in total assets, investing in the total market value of domestic and foreign companies over 100 Billion dollars. Lighthouse Capital was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: China, United States, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Angel $436k–$899k; Series A $451k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2015
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- Skysys — Skysys is a company that focuses on data acquisition and analysis services for drones. It provides customers with complete solutions for automatic charging, automatic scheduling, automatic acquisition and automatic analysis. It is committed to becoming the leading enterprise in data collection and analysis of Chinese civil rotary aircraft. From thedata and services to gold mining, the development of mature rotorcraft drone automatic driving artificial intelligence.
- Boshang — Boshang focuses on vertical industries, building low-cost and high-quality private LTE/5G private networks for enterprise customers, and providing slicing and in-depth customized services for different business needs.
- Foxdeli — Foxdeli helps online stores stay connected with customers from purchase to unboxing through transactional emails and easy shipment tracking.
Jimothy is a free advertisement bulletin board for 9 million people a month! You can post information such as buying and selling second-hand goods, announcement of the event, recruitment information, recruitment of members, real estate information etc.
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- Industry: Local, Real Estate, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- COSOJI — COSOJI develops a service that connects local real estate-related work and local people.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $273k–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $882k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
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- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
- Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.
Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5.3M; Series A $3M–$12M; Series B $1.7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019
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- Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
netage, inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and incubation investments. They invests in internet business. netage is located in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: News, Local, Big Data
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- JX Press — The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters
- Oceans — Oceans Inc. was incorporated on September 16th, 2010 as an internet service company with the expressed goal of making the Internet more useful, more local, more here and now. Specialists from the fields of user interface, user experience, creative, programming and monetization gathered to make this possible. Currently, these development and serviceoperations professionals operate Eyeland(http://eyeland.in), a popular local communications platform.
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Browse database — It's Free!Enlight Ventures, one of the fastest growing VCs in the world, invests in early-stage startups with unique and sustainable business models.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $94k–$3.3M; Series A $1.8M–$14M; Series B $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- TESOLLO — Explore Tesollo multi-finger robotic grippers and dexterous robotic hands for precise manipulation, industrial automation, humanoid robotics, and Physical AI.
- Aigencore — Aigencore is a specialized, advanced technology company focused on tritium solutions, nuclear fusion fuel cycles, and tritium-applied industrial products.
- Stress Solution — Based on unique medical and scientific information and ECG waveforms, Stress Solution creates sound that regulates and initiates the equilibrium of the autonomic nervous system. Currently, Healing Bit is utilizing wearable technology to detect stress in real time. Through this, an autonomous feedback system that uses artificial intelligence topredict individual stress level situations and take preventative measures is being developed.
Growth Capital and Venture Debt team providing highly customized equity and debt solutions to help take leading technology companies to the next level.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan
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- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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- NetBase Solutions — Empower your business with Quid's Generative AI platform to gain a holistic view of customer context. See data through the lens of the future. AI-powered consumer and market intelligence.
- Invincea — Invincea is the leader in advanced endpoint threat protection, protecting more than 25,000 customers and 3 million active users.The company provides the most comprehensive solution to contain, identify, and control the advanced attacks that evade legacy security controls. Invincea protects enterprises against targeted threats, includingspear-phishing and Web drive-by attacks that exploit Java, Flash, and other applications. Combining the visibility and control of an endpoint solution with the intelligence of cloud analysis, Invincea offers the only market-deployed solution that defends against 0-day exploits, file-less malware, and previously unknown malware.The company has been in market with its award-winning technology since 2009. In 2011, Invincea was recognized as "Most Innovative Company of the Year" at RSA Conference, and since then the company has won numerous awards for its technology and business.Invincea maintains an OEM agreement with Dell to ship a customized version of Invincea's award-winning endpoint security solution, under the Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace brand. This offering ships on Dell's entire line of commercial PCs and tablets, comprising 20 million devices per year.The company, which was founded by Dr. Anup Ghosh to address the rapidly increasing security threat from nation states, cyber criminals, and rogue actors, has commercialized technology originally built under DARPA funding. The company is venture capital-backed and based in Fairfax, VA. For more information, visit https://www.invincea.com.
- Space Market — Space Market is a service that can easily lend and borrow from conference rooms to uninhabited islands.
OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Content
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$68M; Series A $253k–$89M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
- Receptionist — Receptionist is a media firm that offers consulting and operational services to creates opportunities to update business communication.
- Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.
Triplestar Capital is an investment company established by the 3rd generation of the family behind the Tat Hong Group of businesses.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2B, Local
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $800k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CaterSpot — Caterspot is an online B2B catering marketplace that connects companies with great local catering options. It also offers users the possibility to order 1,000+ catering menus and options from a curated list of caterers and restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong.Caterspot was founded on January 18, 2016, and is headquartered in Singapore withoffices in Hong Kong.
- All G — All G is on a mission to harmonize the perfection of nature with science to deliver ethical and sustainable cultured dairy and plant-based meat alternatives to the world.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Dr.’s Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
Heyi Ziben engaged in asset management, investment management and investment consulting.
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- Industry: Gaming, Automotive, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Angel, Series B, Series A
- Geography: China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Angel $449k–$10M; Series B $2.9M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skywooo — Skywooo manufactures a range of automotive electronic products such as streaming media driving recorder, DVR driving recorder, AVN vehicle, PND handheld navigator, vehicle intelligent display terminal, ceiling monitor, and more.
- Autocruis — Autocruis is an automotive technology company. Autocruis developed the field of programmable gate array based embedded forward advanced driver assistance systems, driver monitoring systems, and 360 automatic vehicle monitoring systems. They offer intelligent vehicle front loading services.
- Yiyuan — Yiyuan provides maintenance of home appliances and electrical equipment, professional cleaning, air treatment, IT operation and maintenance, and other services. They provide services to rental apartment companies, chain stores and hotels, commercial office space providers, and property management firms.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 430
- Round size: Seed $266k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- OQT — OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms.
- Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
- Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Angel
- Geography: China, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 293
- Round size: Angel $435k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$70M; Series B $3M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wonsor — Wonsor focuses on automatic precision detection technology to provide professional detection solutions and chip-based products.
- Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.
- Sudu Technology — sudo AI builds the foundation for general-purpose robots, enabling robotic skills to be learned, transferred, and deployed across the physical world.
Nextrans is a Korean-based venture capital firm invest in early-stage startups in Vietnam, Korea and the US. Our mission is to create a global network of talented and passionate founders pursuing world-changing impact.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Vietnam, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $865k–$4.5M; Series A $1.9M–$14M; Series B $9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
- FuriosaAI — FuriosaAI develops system semiconductors optimized for AI, enabling efficient processing of large amounts of data in a short period of time.
- KaliVir Immunotherapeutics — multiple therapies, one virus.KALIVIR is developing cutting edge, next-generation oncolytic viral immunotherapy programs for treatment of cancer. LEARN MORE NEWS AND EVENTSAugust 19, 2026 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Closing of $14 Million Series A Extension Financing READ MORE November 19, 2025 - KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Clinical Trial Collaboration and Supply Agreement with Roche to Evaluate
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