Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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13 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$48M |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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11 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $900k–$20M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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11 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $268k–$41M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$38M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $482k–$42M |
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $667k–$32M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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9 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $317k–$20M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $661k–$47M |
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Drone Fund
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, Canada | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Drones, Robotics, Aerospace | $319k–$15M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $263k–$30M |
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $826k–$41M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$51M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $404k–$11M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.9M–$60M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $212k–$13M |
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Fast Track Initiative, Inc.
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $345k–$117M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$71M |
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $482k–$17M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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4 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Deep30
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software | $136k–$11M |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $480k–$11M |
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D4V
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $292k–$14M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $356k–$47M |
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Darwin Venture Management
VC Fund
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3 | Taiwan, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $350k–$14M |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $318k–$17M |
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $310k–$9.2M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1.7M–$73M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$1B |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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3 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $134k–$14M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $556k–$19M |
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Miyako Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Medical, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $395k–$150M |
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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–$45M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $457k–$21M |
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NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Tanzania | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology | $452k–$184M |
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, China, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Internet | $497k–$41M |
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JIC Venture Growth Investments
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Series B, Series C | Information Technology, Software, Medical | $4.3M–$77M |
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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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Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | Hardware, Software, Manufacturing | $465k–$16M |
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Shoko Chukin Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Canada | Debt Financing, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $678k–$156M |
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UTokyo Innovation Platform
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing | |
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$553M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $679k–$122M |
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Sagin Capital & Consulting
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $92k–$14M |
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IDATEN Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Sales, Medical | $1M–$31M |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Events, Apparel | $453k–$28M |
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Hakuhodo DY Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Australia, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.8M–$109M |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $953k–$553M |
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $1.3M–$8B |
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Joyo Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Series B, Series D | Medical, Aerospace, Machine Learning | $1.7M–$16M |
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Fukuoka Financial Group
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Content, Recruiting, Financial Services | $63k–$340M |
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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 hasmanaged 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 795
- Round size: Series A $2M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
- Valt Japan — VALT JAPAN is a social business compan that continues to pursue solutions to social issues.
- 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.
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, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $900k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$18M; Series B $2.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $326M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
- Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
- X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
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: 311
- Round size: Seed $268k–$9.9M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $616k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
- Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
- 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.
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: 668
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 392
- Round size: Seed $482k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
- trippiece — Trippiece is a service that allows you to share your travel plans on the web.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $667k–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$32M; Series B $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Nocall — Nocall develops an automated calling system utilizing AI voice technology.
- RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
- Bulwark Dynamics — Bulwark Dynamics develops autonomous maritime systems for contested logistics and distributed military operations. Its CARAVEL platform is an autonomous beach-landing resupply vessel that delivers cargo from ship to shore without requiring port infrastructure. The vessel supports JMIC and ISO containers, autonomous cargo handling, GPS-deniednavigation, and operations in shallow or degraded maritime conditions. The company also develops vessel autonomy, command-and-control, hull production, payload integration, and sustainment capabilities for defense and maritime logistics applications.
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: 376
- Round size: Seed $317k–$10M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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 — 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 537
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$41M; Series B $2.4M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
- Paytner — Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.
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- Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $448k–$7.1M; Series A $319k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $947k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Triorb — The corporate website of TriOrb Inc., revolutionizing production lines with our ball-driven omnidirectional mobility platform.
- FullDepth — FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers towitness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.FullDepth is a company that creates marine drones to aid with underwater monitoring. The company's drones work in tandem with marine navigation technology, which monitors and captures aquatic life, communicates data to connected devices, and provides infiltration information that can be freely used with a cloud service, allowing customers to witness and study marine life for educational and recreational purposes.
- Sunflower Labs — Fully autonomous AI-powered drone security with thermal imaging and real-time threat detection for commercial, industrial, and residential properties.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 661
- Round size: Seed $263k–$6.2M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
- Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
- BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $826k–$14M; Series A $2.2M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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: 652
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$51M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
- 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.
- Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
- AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
- Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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: 452
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$29M; Series B $4.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 380
- Round size: Seed $282k–$1.6M; Debt Financing $212k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
- Xperisus — Xperisus provides solutions to government agencies and local governments, such as support for the development of value-added experiences.
- SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
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, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $345k–$117M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $4.7M–$83M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $124M 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.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 337
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$71M; Series B $5M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019
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- 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.
- EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 323
- Round size: Seed $482k–$12M; Series B $2.2M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- GAAAT — GAAAT created unique artwork in partnership with a major Japanese IP content provider and hosted an art event in New York.
- Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
- Smart Craft —
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2377
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$590k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
- Neighbourhood — Neighbourhood transform unused spaces in restaurants, hotels and residences, into local hubs for co-working, creating and collaborating.
Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $136k–$7M; Series B $5.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
- Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
- Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!
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Browse database — It's Free!XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $480k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $549k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
- Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer, and enterprise technology startups. Partnering with the global design company IDEO, D4V provides both hands-on assistance and coaching to help startups create value via human-centered customer experiences and interactions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $443k–$7M; Series A $1.2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $292k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $356k–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
- Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Taiwan, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3M; Series A $2.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- BitBiome — BitBiome is a biotechnology company focused on analyzing microbial genomes and discovering enzymes and proteins that can be applied across industries such as pharmaceuticals, food production, and sustainable manufacturing. The company uses single-cell microbial sequencing technology to study microbes that are difficult to culture throughconventional laboratory methods, enabling the creation of a large microbial genome database called bit-GEM. Its platform supports enzyme discovery, genome analysis, and bioengineering efforts aimed at developing bio-based alternatives for industrial processes. bitBiome also works with academic institutions and commercial partners on research projects involving areas such as biodegradable materials, biomass conversion, and pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis. The company positions microbes as a resource for advancing the bioeconomy by providing tools and data that support biotechnology research and industrial applications.
- PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $318k–$5.7M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $310k–$1.3M; Series A $1.1M–$6.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $910k–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M 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 Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 200
- Round size: Series A $2M–$43M; Series B $4.4M–$73M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $51M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
- Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
We have the largest domestic and global customer base of any Japanese bank, consisting of a network of 500 offices in Japan and 40 other countries. We apply our values of integrity and responsibility by contributing to the improvement of the economic and social infrastructure wherever we do business.Our portfolio includes 40 million retailbanking accounts and 500,000 corporate customers. The extensive network that this represents is itself a valuable component of our financial role as part of the global social infrastructure.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $1.3M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tryeting — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
- HelloWorld — EdTech, International Exchange between Schools
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $134k–$14M; Angel $137k–$1.3M; Series A $1.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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: 89
- Round size: Seed $556k–$4.3M; Series A $1.9M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
- CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Browse database — It's Free!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 $395k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$28M; Series B $3.7M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $91M in 2019
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- 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.
- 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.
- XFOREST Therapeutics — xFOREST Therapeutics develops a drug discovery platform that targets RNA structures.
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: 194
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$45M; Series B $3.3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
- AOI Biosciences — AOI Biosciences is a biotechnology company that creates testing and drug discovery businesses.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
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: 306
- Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019
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- OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
- Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
- Global Trust Networks — GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost.
NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $452k–$184M; Venture - Series Unknown $543k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
- Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $497k–$10M; Series A $2M–$41M; Series B $2.2M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $145M in 2025
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- Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
- Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
- AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Series B $4.7M–$52M; Series C $4.3M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B 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.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
- Strand Therapeutics — Clinical-stage biotech developing breakthrough mRNA therapeutics with targeted delivery systems for solid tumors, autoimmune diseases, and blood cancers.
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: 67
- 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
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- 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.
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $465k–$3.8M; Series A $949k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
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- REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
- Rutilea — RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency.
- LENZO — They are system architects and builders, committed to engineering high-performance, energy-efficient hardware for a new generation of workloads. They hold great expectations that Japan-based LENZO will drive a game-changing breakthrough with its innovative semiconductors and establish a strong presence on the global stage. Their proprietary CGLAarchitecture delivers breakthrough performance per watt in a compact, cost-effective form.
Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Series B $5.8M–$156M; Debt Financing $678k–$97M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trifa — Trifa is a telecommunications service provider that provides eSIM internet access when traveling internationally.
- Serendip Consulting — Serendip Consulting refers to business portfolio optimization and provision of effective solutions.The Serendip Group operates not only strategic and financial consulting, but also a business company with a focus on manufacturing. Aiming for further growth of the entire group by restructuring the "business portfolio" based on the know-howof nurturing small and medium-sized businesses cultivated over 10 years since its foundation and investment experience, and "modernizing management" by dispatching professional managers You.
- Monozukuri Business Succession Holdings (JMS) — Monozukuri Business Succession Holdings is a specialized corporate investment subsidiary. The platform modernizes mid-sized manufacturing firms facing generational leadership transitions. Strategic institutional banking partnerships protect public shareholder equity from dilution. After acquisition, the firm installs professional management andautomated factory systems. All operational yields consolidate into the parent organization to drive long-term growth.
The University of Tokyo IPC is a company responsible for expanding the innovation ecosystem of the University of Tokyo. Accelerate global innovation from the University of Tokyo through three activities: start-up support, investment business, and corporate innovation support.It was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University ofTokyo in 2016 with the enforcement of the revised law of the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Law, which is the basis law. The investment targets of the Todai IPC are venture companies that utilize the research results and human resources of the University of Tokyo, but they also make FOF (fund of funds) investments in funds managed by some private venture capital companies. In 2019, it started a consortium-type incubation program (University of Tokyo IPC 1stRound) to support the establishment and financing of Tokyo University-related ventures.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
- RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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Browse database — It's Free!KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $8M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RevComm — RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management.
- Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
- 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.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $679k–$7M; Series A $3M–$103M; Series B $6.5M–$122M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Listie — Listie is an industrial engineering company that develops, supplies, and maintains lithium separation equipment and membranes. It is an important infrastructure resource that supports modern life, including electric vehicles, smartphones, and renewable energy storage.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series A $2M–$5.7M; Series B $2.4M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $92k–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
- EUV Photon — EUV Photon is an irradiation services company that conducts processing, evaluation, and measurement of materials for EUV lights.
- KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
IDATEN Ventures is a VC fund specializing in seed-stage and early-stage startups developing technologies and/or services which will support the following industries: manufacturing, construction, and logistics.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Sales, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$9.9M; Series A $1M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- QuantumCore — QuantumCore develops reservoir computing solutions, including a multivariate time-series processing solution exceeding the performance of deep learning by diversion of technology in the field of quantum computing.
- Prediction — Prediction is an advertising company that provides video advertising media and AI-powered potential customer estimation services.
- Aero Development Japan — Aero Development Japan develops drone engine for the transportation industry. It was established to develop only one hybrid engine for large and long-distance drones in the world. Vision aims to contribute to the development of the world by developing a hybrid engine suitable for drones with less electrical control and providing it as a powersource for weight and long-distance drones. The company's distinctive feature is that it does not embrace all of its technological processes, and integration of these excellent technologies to develop hybrid engines for large and long-distance drones from Japan.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Industry: Beauty, Events, Apparel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $453k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$43M; Series B $3.3M–$109M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Creator's X — Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation production assistance tools using AI.
- Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
- Third Intelligence — Third Intelligence is an AI research and development firm dedicated to producing a new type of intelligence and achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Through cutting-edge research, advanced algorithm development, and large-scale computing capabilities, the company aims to push the boundaries of machine cognition, enabling systems thatcan reason, learn, and adapt across diverse domains.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $953k–$47M; Series B $7.1M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
- Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
- SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 302
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $44M–$8B; Debt Financing $1.3M–$964M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- SolaNika — SolaNika mission is to shackle energy with laser wireless power transfer and accelerate human progress.
- Vena Energy — Vena Group delivers renewable energy, battery, and hydrogen solutions across Asia-Pacific. Explore our green innovations driving the low-carbon transition today
- Mercuria — A world leading independent energy and commodity group
Venture capital 100% owned by Joyo Bank
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- Industry: Medical, Aerospace, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series D
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$12M; Series B $3.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SAKANA Dream — Japanese fish and its cuisine are a treasure of Japan, On the other hand, the variety of fish consumed on a daily basis accounts for less than 1% of all fish living in Japanese waters. Although there are many underutilized fish that surpass the well-known fish, they are even discarded due to unstable catches and lack of name recognition. Aquaculture can provide a stable supply, however, it is not easy to keep fish in a small water cage and only a limited number of fish are delivered to the market. We, SAKANA Dream, select the most delicious fish from over 4,000 species in Japan, and make it possible to farm and produce them using the cutting edge technology. Our goal is to create the "world's most delicious fish" that no one has ever tasted before and deliver it to our customers.
- Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
- Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
Fukuoka Financial Group provides banking and financial services that contributes to the development of the regional economy.It operates through the Banking and Others divisions. The Banking division offers deposits, loans, and domestic and foreign exchange services. The Others division provides guarantees, business revitalization support,receivable management, and collection services. The company was founded on April 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan.
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- Industry: Content, Recruiting, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$71M; Series A $63k–$340M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waak — Waak is a manufacturer and designer of home and office furniture. Their products include tables, chairs, desks, and other furniture, including waakdesks, waakables, and desk types A and B.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
- Sonire Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
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