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Top 50 Medical Device VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical device startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical device companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Medical Device VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025

Investor Medical Device Japan investments
UntroD Capital 6
Nippon Venture Capital 6
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 5
Nissay Capital 5
Fast Track Initiative, Inc. 4
Keio Innovation Initiative 4
UTokyo Innovation Platform 4
JAFCO 4
Mizuho Capital 3
Fujifilm 3
SBI Investment 3
FFG Venture Business Partners 3
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 3
CEJ Capital 3
Higin Capital 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
2020 Ventures 2
Glocalink 2
iSGS Investment Works 2
Osaka University Venture Capital 2
JMTC Capital 2
Foxconn Technology Group 2
KSP 2
Cyberdyne 2
DBJ Capital 2
IT-Farm 2
MedVenture Partners 2
Bank of the Ryukyus 1
Rohto Pharmaceutical 1
Dogan 1
NVentures 1
Dai-ichi Life 1
Miraca Holdings 1
Revamp 1
Chiba Dojo 1
Mediva 1
Real Tech Japan 1
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company 1
Ohara Pharmaceutical 1
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital 1
Miyagin Venture Capital 1
Development Bank of Japan 1
Essential Pharma 1
QB Capital 1
Techmatrix 1
FreakOut Shinsei Fund 1
MIRAI SOUZOU 1
Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund 1
Sea Forest Circulation 1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
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UntroD Capital VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Alternō — Alternō was founded with a vision to create Asia's first low-cost thermal energy storage solution for renewable energy, to be deployed widely across the region by 2050. Alternō received early stage funding from Antler VC in Jan 2023 to kick off the research & development.
  • Q5D Technology — Additive manufacturing with conductors. Eliminate traditional wiring, saving space and weight. Unique 5-axis robots add power and data functions to products. Simplify supply chains and manufacturing. Transform productivity with our hardware, software, and support.
  • Optieum Biotechnologies — Optieum Biotechnologies Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing innovative scFv antibody-based therapies for the treatment of patients with cancers. Their proprietary platform technology, Eumbody System™, enables to develop and detect a scFv-based product candidates that specifically bind to, and modulate tooptimize the immune-cell function for oncology targets.We are committed to helping patients with severe diseases by bringing life-changing therapies to the patients in need.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 70 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • CloudLegal — CloudLegal provides AI-powered legal services, combining generative AI with legal expertise to streamline corporate operations.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
Fast Track Initiative, Inc. VC Fund · Hongo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fast Track Initiative is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences and healthcare services.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Medii — Medii provides a physician sharing service for hospitals.
  • RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Keio Innovation Initiative VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
  • Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
UTokyo Innovation Platform VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
JAFCO VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 45 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Quemix — Quemix is an IT company specialized in providing quantum computing solutions.
  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Fujifilm VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fujifilm develops and sells consumer products and business products related to photography. Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is a Japanese multinational photography and imaging company. The company serves various industries, including medical, graphic arts, optics, enterprise storage, motion picture, and photography.The company’s consumer productsare categorized as digital cameras and accessories, film photography, Instax photography, and binoculars. Its business products are categorized as medical systems, Fujinon endoscopy, microfilm, data storage, graphic arts and printing, professional video, optical devices, specialty chemicals, printing imaging colorants, and more. Color films, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color papers, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging equipment, graphic arts equipment and materials, flat panel displays, and photocopiers and printers are some products developed by Fujifilm USA.Fujifilm USA is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Ripcord — Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering. Its focus is on smart robotics digitization, smart content management with AI, and helping enable RPA and business processes.Ripcord is based in Hayward, California, and is backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,Google Ventures, Lux Ventures, Legend Star, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.
  • 24M Technologies — 24M Technologies develops energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. builds energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Tome Biosciences — Tome Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops programmable gene insertion technology. Using CRISPR, its technologies allow them to insert any genetic sequence of any size at any location into any genome.
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 17 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
  • TOKYO GameFi — TOKYO GameFi is a Web3 firm formed by a management team of developers and engineers with previous experience at CyberAgent.
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
  • aiESG — aiESG offers an AI platform that conducts ESG assessments of supply chains and facilitates an in-depth sustainability evaluation.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
  • Aerem — Make the switch to rooftop solar effortlessly with Aerem solution's innovative solar finance and technology solutions. Discover how we're making solar adoption easier than ever before and start saving on your energy costs.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
CEJ Capital VC Fund · Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
CEJ Capital is a venture capital arm of CYBERDYNE. It engages in the creation of cybernics industry, management, and management of growth promotion investment business association property.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, Medical Device
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ANSeen — X-ray COLOR Imaging
  • GAIA BioMedicine — GAIA BioMedicine Inc., a spin-out venture from Kyushu University founded on 2015, is a technology-driven biopharmaceutical company focusing on cellular therapies and immunotherapies mainly for intractable malignancies.
  • Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Higin Capital VC Fund · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Higegin Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • AMI — AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
2020 Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
venture capital and angel investment fund
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Investment focus
  • Consumer Electronics, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Unocoin — Unocoin a cryptocurrency exchange in India, offers seamless trading of Bitcoin & other cryptos. With 2M users Since 2013. Join India's trusted crypto platform.
  • Kava Labs — Kava is a lightning-fast Layer-1 blockchain that combines the two most used permissionless execution environments into a single, scalable, developer-optimized network.
  • Triple W Japan — Triple W develops DFree, the first wearable device for incontinence that can track the progression of bladder movements using a non-invasive ultrasonic sensor. The device will help elderly and disabled people who suffer from incontinence by notifying when they will need to go to the bathroom. DFree is now widely marketed in Asia and Europe and usedin over 500 senior care facilities. Triple W has offices in Japan, France, and the US.
iSGS Investment Works VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
Osaka University Venture Capital VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ayumo — Ayumo is a research and development company that provides deep learning services with medical insights and AI technology.
  • QunaSys — Quantum physics is a relatively new field built since the beginning of the 20th century, but we have used MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance equipment) and lasers used for close examinations in hospitals, and semiconductors mounted on computers. Supports the technology that supports the daily life of people.QunaSys was established to bring out thequantum physics that has been active behind the scenes to the front stage, and to make use of quantum properties to realize technologies that could not be achieved with existing technologies.
  • RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
JMTC Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
JMTC Capital (JMTCキャピタル) is the venture capital arm of Japan Material Technologies Corporation. It focuses on investments in R&D-oriented hardware startups in areas such as robotics, drones, personal mobility, wearables, AR/VR, and sensing.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Environmental Consulting, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • BioPhenoMA — BioPhenoMA develops an AI-powered platform for detecting ultra-trace proteins that helps accelerate new drug discovery phases.
  • Spiral — Spiral is a game changer in providing autonomous drone solutions for indoor environments, most notably during non-GPS situations.
Foxconn Technology Group VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Foxconn Technology Group, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, and the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue.The companymanufactures connectors for use in PCs in Taiwan and also manufactures connectors and cable assemblies worldwide. The company also manufactures enclosures, primarily for desktop PCs and PC servers. Foxconn is the registered trade name for the Company. Connectors & Cable Assemblies Connectors have applications in various industries - computers, automobiles, communications, consumer products, medical, and defense. Foxconn focuses on offering a range of connectors and cable assemblies for desktop and notebook PCs and PC peripherals. Approximately 500 types of connectors are produced and sold under the Company's own Foxconn brand name. Foxconn has branched into manufacturing connectors for communications and consumer products. PC Enclosures Foxconn manufactures PC enclosures for desktop computers. Depending on its client's specifications, the casings can be sold together with floppy disk drives, switching power supplies, connectors, cable assemblies, and riser cards. Foxconn provides integrated mechanical solutions for clients to deal with thermal, acoustic, environmental, mechanical, functional, and design problems.The Company primarily serves in Taiwan. In addition, it has distribution centers in various key cities in Asia, Europe, and America. Foxconn's principal manufacturing operations are based in Taiwan and mainland China. It has also set up production facilities in Europe and the United States. Foxconn is in the process of setting up new production facilities in Ireland and is also considering Central America as a production center. Significant Events Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. has established a unit to enter the business of assembling liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions. The company and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. have formed a joint venture, Ampower Holding Ltd, that makes inverters meant for television sets fitted with TFT-LCD screens. The company has formed a strategic partnership with United Keys, Inc. As part of this partnership, Foxconn would build display-key input devices using United Keys technology. Display keys are regular key switches with small OLED displays embedded in their tops. This allows interactive and image-based communication between software and users. On September 5, 2009, Sony Corporation announced that it had agreed to form a partnership with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. for the production of LCD TVs for the Americas region.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hardware, Robotics
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Kneron — Kneron, a leading provider of edge AI solutions, was founded in 2015 at San Diego, US. It is dedicated to design and development of integrated software and hardware edge AI solutions.
  • Indigo Technologies — Indigo Technologies is transforming the way the transportation industry moves people and things.As the world becomes more crowded and resources are in greater demand, we’re faced with never-before-seen challenges. Indigo turns those challenges into opportunities. Our experienced team is driving the world forward in automotive technology andenergy.
  • Neteera — Neteera's FDA-clear contactless RPM platform transforms patient care by accurately monitoring heart rate, respiratory rate, and behavioral parameters.
KSP VC Fund · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
KSP, Inc. is the core business entity responsible for operating the Kanagawa Science Park (KSP) and has accepted the challenge of creating new industries through the support, development, and incubation of venture businesses. We provide a variety of business support services that best meet the needs of venture businesses in each stage of theirbusiness growth, ranging from the processes of startup and growth to public offerings. Several hundreds of new startup companies have been created and nurtured since its foundation. An incubation manager (IM) acts as a coordinator and provides a variety of support services to a venture company to help them successfully launch and develop their new business, such as offering individual consultations and a variety of information or advice. KSP, Inc. is well poised to cope with the varying needs of new ventures for highly sophisticated, specialized tasks by offering a business school, business support center, business matching services, and investment funds.The public sector, such as the Kanagawa prefectural government, Kawasaki city government, and the Development Bank of Japan, Inc., has an equity participation in KSP, thus playing a vital role in the deployment of local industrial development policy.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • Mira Robotics — Mira Robotics is a software based company provide services that can robots in various fields.
Cyberdyne VC Fund · Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm which is established by Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in order to materialize his idea to utilize Robot Suit HAL® for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, heavy works, entertainment and so on. Robot Suit HAL® was developed with the technologies createdin Sankai Laboratory of Tsukuba University as an application of “Cybernics*” advocated by Prof. Sankai.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
  • Series B, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
  • Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
  • Hirosaki Lifescience Innovation — Hirosaki Lifescience Innovation is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of regenerative medicine products.
DBJ Capital VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
IT-Farm VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CROSS SYNC — The company was founded in October 2019 by Dr. Takaki, a Japanese intensivist with more than 20-year experience in critical care medicine, from his strong desire of wanting to decrease preventable death and sudden changes in patient conditions while in the ICU. CROSS SYNC’s vision is to provide ICU-level medical treatment anywhere. The mission isto help and assist medical professionals utilizing the power of technology so that they can provide high-quality medical care even in an environment where there is a shortage of specialist physicians, and to ensure the best patient outcomes. As a Yokohama University certified startup, CROSS SYNC develops a variety of AI clinical assistant tools in collaboration with affiliated hospitals, the school of medicine, and the department of health data science. By delivering our AI-based platform to acute care settings all over the world, we aim to create a world without avoidable deaths and preventable acute changes for in-patients.
  • EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
MedVenture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
MedVenture Partners invests in seed to early stage projects and start-ups in the life science field focusing mainly on medical devices.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Alivas — Alivas is a medical company that develops new therapeutic medical devices for refractory constipation. It is a joint venture between Stanford University and the University of Tokyo with the Japan Biodesign program for innovative medical device creation. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hongo, Tokyo in Japan.
  • PaMeLa — PaMeLa is a company that measures pain with science.PaMeLa will establish a method of objectively assessing pain and contribute to medical care.
  • SentiAR — SentiAR is digital health, software device company adding a new dimension to clinical practice in interventional procedures. Spun out of Washington University, we are developing the first 3D visualization platform using real-time holography of the patient's anatomy and catheter location, "floating" over the patients, with a goal toprovide the clinician and patient a faster, safer delivery of care.SentiAR’s mission is to transform the experience for both patient and clinician in interventional procedures with a 3D augmented reality platform featuring real-time holographic visualization of the patient’s actual anatomy, “floating” over the patient.The visualization is fully controllable “hands-free” by the clinician, providing an ergonomic breakthrough for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias within an interventional catheter lab environment. SentiAR is developing the platform for eventual FDA submission.
Bank of the Ryukyus VC Fund · Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Bank of the Ryukyus provides financial services. They offer information about the insurance products. They provide life insurance and non-life insurance products.
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Investment focus
  • Security, Telecommunications, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • Ana Neo — Ana Neo is a digital lifestyle and mobile gaming platform that provides a virtual entertainment experience.
  • Swivel — Swivel's mission is to create the fishing brand.
Rohto Pharmaceutical VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Rohto Pharmaceutical is a manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals and cosmetics products. The Company's products include eyewash, bath soaps, gastrointestinal medicine, and hand cream. Rohto Pharmaceutical also has a license agreement with its subsidiary, Mentholatum (US) to sell their brand products. The Company also manufactures contactlenses and health foods.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Fitness
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
  • InnoJin — InnoJin is a healthcare technology firm that provides consulting, collecting, analyzing, and giving information on medical services.
  • Neural Port — Neural Port is an information technology company that provides virtual reality, media creation, and virtual reality products.
Dogan VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
an is a professional group that provides corporate investment and advice to revitalize the local economy.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AdipoSeeds — Making Platelets from Fat and Inventing New Blood Supply System.
  • Green Card — Green Card s a company in Fukuoka that runs Junior Soccer NEWS and youth soccer cheering teams.
  • KabuK Style — KabuK Style provides services that combines co -working spaces, accommodation facilities and cafes.Our service will be started from Nagasaki and We aim to expand the services all over the world.
NVentures VC Fund · 11 investments in the past 12 months
NVentures is the venture capital arm of NVIDIA.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Series B, Series C, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.
  • EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.
Dai-ichi Life VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Dai-ichi Life is a private insurance company that provides life insurance and pension products services. It is the second-largest private life insurance company in Japan as measured by total assets as of March 31, 2014.Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-ichi Life was the oldest mutual insurance company in Japan until it was demutualized andlisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010.As of March 31, 2014, total assets were ¥37.7 trillion (USD$366.3 billion) on a consolidated basis. Based in Tokyo, Dai-ichi Life has approximately 67,000 employees and 1,345 sales offices throughout Japan. It also has overseas life insurance businesses in Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and India as well as offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • COMICSMART — Comic Smart is animation production business that develops exclusive manga and anime content.
  • 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.
Miraca Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Miraca Holdings Inc. is a Japan-based holding company engaged in manufacture and sale of clinical test drugs, entrusted clinical examination and healthcare related business
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AGREE — AGREE is an application developer and operator for medical consultation. Its product is the medical consultation application, LEBER. It allows its users to consult with a doctor on their smartphone 24/7. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
  • SmartScan — SmartScan is a Japanese company that manufactures preventive medicines. SmartScan's mission is to create and provide an image screening environment that is easy for anyone to visit.
  • Kringle Pharma — Kringle Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops pharmaceutical products based on its research on hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and NK4. Its HGF has the regenerative healing ability in regard to liver cells, as well as various cells and organs; and NK4 is a bi-functional molecule, which inhibits the invasion and metastasis of tumorcells as an HGF-antagonist, as well as possesses antiangiogenic activity. The company’s pipeline includes recombinant human HGF for the treatment of acute renal failure, skin ulcers, and CNS diseases; and recombinant human NK4 and NK4 gene drugs for cancer therapy. Kringle Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Toyonaka, Japan.
Revamp VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Revamp is provides management support and management consulting for support companies.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Eyewear, Security
  • Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Caulis — Caulis is a cybersecurity company building the open security platform for every single device.
  • Oh My Glasses — Oh My Glasses TOKYO is a lifestyle brand that offer high quality made in Japan eyewear at an affordable price.Oh My Glasses has been providing an eyeglass e-commerce service that offers five sets of eyeglasses at a time upon order, and buy one if you can find any favorite among them. So customers can try them on before buying.
  • Triple W Japan — Triple W develops DFree, the first wearable device for incontinence that can track the progression of bladder movements using a non-invasive ultrasonic sensor. The device will help elderly and disabled people who suffer from incontinence by notifying when they will need to go to the bathroom. DFree is now widely marketed in Asia and Europe and usedin over 500 senior care facilities. Triple W has offices in Japan, France, and the US.
Chiba Dojo VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Zaimo.ai — Zaimo's AI-driven SaaS budget planning and management software sounds like AI integration can bring significant advantages in automating tasks like tracking expenses, forecasting future spending patterns, and offering personalized budgeting suggestions.
  • MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
Mediva VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Mediva is a consulting and operations company in the fields of medical care, long-term care, and healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TheStory — TheStory is an IT firm that develops a direct recruiting application that helps nurses switch to relevant jobs.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
Real Tech Japan VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
  • ProfilePrint — Helping agribusinesses buy and sell better, ProfilePrint is powered by a patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology. ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality.
  • Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Apps, Content
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Ohara Pharmaceutical VC Fund · Koka, Shiga, Japan
Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
  • Revital Healthcare — Revital Healthcare is a manufacturer of medical devices and disposables for hospitals and other medical laboratories. It offers single-use syringes, needles, re-use prevention syringes and auto-disable syringes which helps in reducing the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases along with infusion sets, blood transfusion sets and bloodcollection tubesThe company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Kilifi, Kenya.
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital VC Fund · Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital is a venture capital company that specializes in seed investments, early stage venture investments and late stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Biotechnology, Management Consulting
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
  • Terrace Mile — Terrace Mile provides farming support and consulting services.
  • SUDx-Biotec — SUDx-Biotec focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of sugar chain technology. The company has developed a diagnostic system for highly sensitive detection of viruses, and is developing an electricity-free diagnosis kit for viruses.
Miyagin Venture Capital VC Fund · Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Miyagin Venture Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, mHealth, Biopharma
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Locus Blue — Locus Blue is a geospatial data analytics company providing an online point cloud processing platform to support industries. Locus Blue creates tools that use 3D data to improve efficiency and address societal issues, making people's lives easier by delivering cutting-edge technology in an easy-to-use format. ScanX, the company's product,is designed for productivity and makes point cloud data analysis easier through automation and the use of machine learning algorithms.
  • Libero Thera — LiberoThera provides drug discovery research and development services. It focuses on making drugs with GPCRs for membrane proteins. LiberoThera was founded in 2018 and is located in Tokyo.
  • Himuka AM Pharma — Himuka AM Pharmais a pharmaceutical company.
Development Bank of Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Development Bank of Japan is an integrated investment and loan service provider to domestic and international clients. They will support sustainability management that balances economic and social value and will help to realize a sustainable society.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Robotics, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • AALTO HAPS — The AALTO Zephyr, the most persistent High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) on the planet, is leading the world into The Stratospheric Age. Flexible, scalable, and adaptable. Zephyr makes this new and exciting age real, not just for some, but for everyone.
  • CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
Essential Pharma VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Essential Pharma provided on this site is created for the purpose of providing information on our ethical drugs to medical professionals
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • HekaBio — HekaBio connects world-leading healthcare innovations to unmet medical needs in the Asia Pacific, with broad category development expertise in pharma, medical device, in-vitro diagnostics, digital health, and cell & gene therapies.
  • Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
QB Capital VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
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.
  • Equmenopolis — Equmenopolis is an information services company that specializes in conversational AI agent platforms and application developments.
  • Power Diamond Systems — Power Diamond Systems is a research and development firm that focuses on diamond semiconductor devices.
Techmatrix VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Techmatrix provides business applications and new technologies. The company also provides network security that protects the user from cyber attacks. Techmatrix was founded on August 30, 1984.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Software, Medical Device
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LPIXEL — Just another site
FreakOut Shinsei Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
FreakOut Shinsei Fund is an investment fund targeting IT venture companies that develop solutions with the potential for global expansion.
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Investment focus
  • Hotel, Retail, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
  • Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
  • Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
MIRAI SOUZOU VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
MIRAI SOUZOU operates as a venture capital firm that invests in institutional lookup and supporting projects. The Company invests in institutional research and development supporting projects, medicine, agriculture, ocean field, and other industries. Innovations and Future Creation conducts businesses in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Striemo — Striemo manufactures and develops electric personal mobility. Striemo was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan
The Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund works with startups to bring about innovations greater than what Paramount Bed would be able to create on its own.
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Investment focus
  • CRM, SaaS, Medical
  • Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Sea Forest Circulation VC Fund
Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
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