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Top 50 Medical Device VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 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 November 2024

Investor	Medical Device Japan investments
UntroD Capital	6
Nippon Venture Capital	6
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	5
Nissay Capital	5
UTokyo Innovation Platform	4
CEJ Capital	3
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	3
Keio Innovation Initiative	3
SBI Investment	3
KSP	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
DBJ Capital	2
FFG Venture Business Partners	2
Cyberdyne	2
Osaka University Venture Capital	2
2020 Ventures	2
Daiwa Corporate Investment	2
Foxconn Technology Group	2
MedVenture Partners	2
Glocalink	2
Mizuho Capital	2
Higin Capital	2
Media Future	1
Nomura Holdings	1
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital	1
Miyagin Venture Capital	1
Toray Engineering	1
Macnica	1
QB Capital	1
Development Bank of Japan	1
Kiraboshi Capital	1
Toyota Tsusho	1
Findex	1
IT-Farm	1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	1
Universal Materials Incubator	1
Olympus	1
Shinsei Corporate Investment	1
Scrum Ventures	1
Diamond Medino Capital	1
Fast Track Initiative, Inc.	1
Miraca Holdings	1
Rohto Pharmaceutical	1
Dogan	1
Konica Minolta	1
NEDO	1
Revamp	1
Globis Capital Partners	1
Leave a Nest	1
NVentures	1

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UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

A-Wave — A-Wave is a manufacturing company that develops and markets medical devices, pharmaceuticals, computer software, and hardware.
Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OOYOO — OOYOO Co., Ltd. is a DeepTech venture that combines international entrepreneurial spirit, and a 'Made In Japan' excellence, to bring the latest innovations in clean technology to society for a smarter, cleaner, and more mobile world.
Visban — Visban is a technology company that specializes in utilizing mmWave signals for connectivity both indoors and outdoors. Their primary focus is on providing reliable and fast network solutions that eliminate dead spots and offer uninterrupted connections. By utilizing mmWave signals, Visban can achieve this with fewer base stations, leading to moreenergy-efficient operations and extended battery life for mobile devices on their network.
Trans-N — Trans-N aims to introduce advanced AI technologies, accelerating digital transformation and promoting its AI transformation. Trans-N offers management consulting, AI system development, and sales of AI-related products, including meeting minutes and contract analysis tools, serving major trading companies.

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.

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).

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Estie — Estie is a Development of AI / machine learning algorithm and new business in real estate company.
Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
SUN METALON — Next Generation Sustainable Metal Manufacturing

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

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.
NIHON AGRI — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

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.

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.

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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 — VIRUTUOUS CYCLE OF ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY
Gojo & Company — Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

KAKEAI — KAKEAI, an AIcloud system that improves the status of member management in the middle management layer as its main business.
DoctorMate — DoctorMate is a service that allows you to consult with your doctor about problems at your nursing home.They will reduce the risks and burdens related to medical care from the field of nursing care, and support the creation of a system that allows nursing care providers to concentrate on daily care with peace of mind.
Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.

FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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.

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.
Rehab — Rehab for Japan is developing a special rehabilitation SaaS for day service .

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.

venture capital and angel investment fund

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Task Management, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Nippon Hydropowtech — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Machine Learning
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.

MedVenture Partners invests in seed to early stage projects and start-ups in the life science field focusing mainly on medical devices.

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.

Glocalink provides seed funding and comprehensive support for emerging science & technology entrepreneurs. Members of Glocalink have extensive experiences of bringing laboratory technologies to the market. On top of seed funding, we will provide comprehensive supports for overcoming all the hurdles that science / technology entrepreneursface.

Investment focus

Health Care, Robotics, Task Management
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
ExtraBold — ExtraBold specializes in the development of 3D printers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
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.
Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.

Higegin Capital is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
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.
Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.

Media Future is a group of communication technology professionals that works on connecting feelings and thoughts. The Tokyo, Tokyo-based company was established in 2013.

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).

The Nomura Group, one of the largest global investment banking and securities firms, is represented in The Americas by Nomura Holding America Inc. (NHA), operating from four strategically positioned offices in North and South America.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Fedrigoni — Fedrigoni is an Italian producer of specialty papers and self-adhesive labels. Fedrigoni focuses its daily efforts on collaboration with clients – an approach instilled in all Group divisions and companies – so that a significant part of its production is made-to-measure for customers, thereby flanking the collection of more than 3,000 articlesalways new and always available in stock thanks to logistics integrating 8 branches in Italy, 6 in Europe and 3 in Asia.Still today a family-run business, Fedrigoni has overcome many recessions and two world wars, managing to consolidate and expand its operations in many production spheres and all over the world.
Sapphire Foods — Sapphire Foods’ value system is firmed based on simple understanding that We WORK together, GROW together and WIN together as a TEAM. We firmly believe in being open and honest in our business and value openness in all our transactions and dealing. Integrity is treasured and upheld in our organization. We believe in continuous improvement andinnovation to progress towards a better tomorrow. Our motto is to "Get better than yesterday".
EaseMyTrip.com — Easy Trip Planners Pvt. Ltd. (EaseMyTrip.com) is an online travel company of India that is based in Patparganj Industrial Area, New Delhi. This travel company is having its branch offices in various cities of India and overseas. The brainchild of Pitti brothers (Mr. Nishant Pitti and Mr. Rikant Pitti), EaseMyTrip was founded by them in year 2008.It deals in flight tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, bus booking and holiday packages. The travel agency uses Computer Reservation System like Galileo or sometimes it also books tickets directly from the airlines. For hotels and cars, it provides offline as well as online booking. The company has its overseas branches at places like Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai and Maldives. It is currently having a B2B network of 50,000 Travel agents, 1200 Franchise Outlets, 1800 Corporate Clients, 1600 Distributors, and 640 Whitelabel solutions.

Miyazaki Taiyo Capital is a venture capital company that specializes in seed investments, early stage venture investments and late stage venture investments.

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 is a venture capital firm.

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.

Toray Engineering utilizes its features that combine the engineering business and mechatro-finetech business. The Toray Engineering Group promises to leverage its Technology, Engineering, and know-how in order to provide the most advanced and even higher quality solutions to its customers. They provide new value to their customers throughhigh-quality products and superior services.

Investment focus

Content, Robotics, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

LPIXEL — Just another site
Riverfield — Riverfield is a Japanese start-up that develops robotic technology for use in the healthcare sector. Jafco has invested in robotics before. Earlier this year, portfolio company Cyberdyne, a robot suit maker, raised $8

Macnica is a global leader in supplying semiconductor, electronic components, network equipment, software products, and various services. Its semiconductor equipment and electronic devices include integrated circuits, network equipment, programmable logic device, memory devices, and related accessories that enable electronics and enterprise ITmarkets to avail electronics equipment to manufacture commercial and consumer electronic products.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Taiwan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Team T5 Inc. — TeamT5 is a professional cyber security solution provider. Compared with other cyber threat intelligence (CTI) vendors, TeamT5 has the deepest understanding of cyber espionage in the Asia-Pacific region. Our world-class research team has dedicated to malware research and security incident response for more than 10 years. With solid technicalbackground and frontline expertise, our portal ThreatVision delivers the best CTI, and ThreatSonar offers the most effective APT hunting solutions. With TeamT5, you are able to being ahead of your threats.
NEXTAGE — Nextage is an Agri-tech company that offers wasabi cultivation in a container.
Save Medical Corp. — Digital Therapeutic company for Japan market. First product is for Type 2 Diabetes patients.

QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Robotics, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Tanzania

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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.

Kiraboshi Capital contributes to the development of Tokyo metropolitan by demonstrating equity functions and customers' management needs. The firm was established in September 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Laser, Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

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BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.

Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan, United States, Kenya

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Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.

Findex is a medical system that manages images and documents of all departments. The company was founded in January 1985 and is based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

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EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

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KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
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.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

Universal Materials Incubator Co., Ltd. is venture capital firm specializing in materials and chemical industry investments. The firm was established on October, 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, New Zealand

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CellFiber — Cell fiber technology was developed as a basic technology for handling cells in the engineering field.
IPEACE223 — IPEACE223 is a chemical company that produces green propylene from raw biomass materials using zeolite catalyst technology.
EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

Olympus Corporation manufactures and sells precision machineries and instruments worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Medical, Scientific, Imaging, and Others. The medical business segment provides endoscopy systems comprising videoscopes, video processors, light sources, and liquid crystal display panels; peripheral equipment such asimage recording devices, endoscope cleaning systems, and sterilization systems; surgical video endoscopy systems and peripheral devices for endoscopic surgery, electrosurgical knives and more.; and endoscopic devices for various diagnostic and treatment procedures, including biopsy forceps, high-frequency polypectomy snares, grasping forceps, stone retrieval and lithotriptor baskets, and hemostasis accessories.The scientific solutions business segment offers upright and polarizing microscopes, inverted microscopes, laser confocal microscopes, box-type fluorescence imaging devices, stereo microscopes, fluorescence macro microscopes, microscope digital cameras, imaging software, bio-imaging systems, and virtual slide systems; and metallurgical microscopes, semiconductor inspection microscopes, laser and measuring microscopes, microscopic 3D measurement systems, industrial videoscopes and fiberscopes, industrial rigid scopes, ultrasonic flaw detectors, eddy current flaw detectors, phased array flaw detectors, X-ray diffraction analyzers, and peripheral equipment. The imaging business segment offers digital single-lens cameras, compact digital cameras and related products, digital camera lens barrels, and optical components as well as IC recorders and binoculars. The Others Business segment manufactures biomedical materials as well as conducts system development and other business activities.Olympus Corporation was founded by Takeshi Yamashita in October 1919 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Content, Software, Medical Device
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

LPIXEL — Just another site

Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
QibiTech — QibiTech created HATS, a service in which a human operator remotely supplements the operation of a robot. Add-on edge calculator or software for various robots to increase robot flexibility. It also serves as a platform for connecting operation data to the business improvement system.
M&A Bazaar — M&A Bazaar provides the M&A Bazaar Method, a revolutionary M&A process that systematically solves the challenges encountered by traditional M&A procedures.

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Stellar Sleep — Stellar Sleep is a mobile app that helps you get better sleep using psychology. Stellar Sleep uses a combination of behavioral therapy, habit building social accountability, and gamification to create an enjoyable, yet clinically effective way for people to improve their sleep.
Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.

Diamond Medino Capital offers services that revolutionize health care and society.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
StapleBio — StapleBio is a bio-tech company that focuses on the research and development of pharmaceuticals based on staple nucleic acid technology.

Fast Track Initiative is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences and healthcare services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medii — Medii provides a physician sharing service for hospitals.
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.
CellFiber — Cell fiber technology was developed as a basic technology for handling cells in the engineering field.

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

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.

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.

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.

an is a professional group that provides corporate investment and advice to revitalize the local economy.

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.

Konica Minolta Inc. is an Innovative Company and continues to create inspiring products and services in the field of imaging. An innovative corporation that continues to create inspiring products and services in the field of imaging. A global corporation that leads the market by advanced technologies and reliability. The Konica Minolta brandshows intellectual creativity with its challenging, reliable, friendly personality. Four unique characteristics help realize the ideal value of the brand: broad technical expertise covering the entire imaging field; a culture relentlessly committed to creating great products and services; unique product groups developed from integrated technologies; a marketing service network that swiftly copes with customers’ needs.The essence of their brand is Konica Minolta’s comprehensive technological expertise that yields highly original innovations, which are a constant source of surprise to customers. The logo is a representation of their brand value and company name and expresses what Konica Minolta offers to customers. The Konica Minolta Group owns a wide array of specialized technologies and technologies that support the competitiveness and attractiveness of their products. These technologies are defined as our core technologies, totaling twelve – four in materials, two in optics, two in nano-fabrication and four in imaging fields. Throughout their history, they have expanded and advanced these technologies, integrating them at whole new levels so that they are the driving force of our production activities. They continuously strive to integrate these technologies into innovative products with new functions and added value that contribute to the daily lives of people at home and at work. Naturally, this also includes our range of Business Solution products.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

WELMO — WELMO has currently been working on R&D to launch Japan's largest welfare AI service platform called "CPA(Care Plan Assistant)" which supports care coordinator (caregiver), who helps a daily activities of the elderly people, to create a care plan for them, with using ICT and advanced technology, especially NLP(Natural LanguageProcessing), in terms of knowledge support. It has mainly two fundamental technologies; data warehouse includes all fast date and big date about care, explainable AI that describes a reason why the care is provided for the users. It also reduces time and cost to create the care plan, which enables anyone to be able to use easily and get enough information that the users want to know and use.
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.
Ispace Technologies — ispace is a private lunar robotic exploration company that is developing micro-robotic technology to provide a low-cost and frequent transportation service to and on the Moon, conduct lunar surface exploration to map, process and deliver resources to our customers in cislunar space.

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) was established as a governmental organization in 1980 to promote the development and introduction of new energy technologies. Research and development of industrial technology was later added, and today NEDO is active in a wide variety of areas as one of the largest publicresearch and development management organizations in Japan.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ANSeen — X-ray COLOR Imaging
EmbodyMe — Making the unimaginable, imaginable with AI
BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.

Revamp is provides management support and management consulting for support companies.

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.

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique 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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.

Leave a Nest thrives to achieve global happiness by enhancing everyday life through science and education for future generation.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

ARK — ARK is a manufacturer of special wards that designs and delivers a sustainable aquaculture solution.
Robopreneur — Robopreneur brings the future by empowering robotics capabilities for use in human's environment to become human's partner and enhance sustainable lifestyles.
Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.

NVentures is the venture capital arm of NVIDIA.

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.

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