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Top 50 Medical Device VC Funds in Japan

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC 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 Funds in Japan

Investor	Medical Device Japan investments
Nippon Venture Capital	6
Nissay Capital	5
UTokyo Innovation Platform	4
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	4
Keio Innovation Initiative	3
SBI Investment	3
Cyberdyne	2
CEJ Capital	2
2020 Ventures	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
Foxconn Technology Group	2
MedVenture Partners	2
Glocalink	2
DBJ Capital	2
Osaka University Venture Capital	2
Ohara Pharmaceutical	1
Japan Science and Technology Agency	1
Macnica	1
Shinsei Corporate Investment	1
IT-Farm	1
Kiraboshi Capital	1
Miyazaki Taiyo Capital	1
Mizuho Capital	1
Fujifilm	1
KSP	1
Mistletoe	1
Revamp	1
Rohto Pharmaceutical	1
Chugai Pharmaceutical	1
Toho Holdings	1
Konica Minolta	1
Real Tech Japan	1
Essential Pharma	1
Daiwa Corporate Investment	1
Scrum Ventures	1
Toray Engineering	1
Findex	1
FFG Venture Business Partners	1
NEDO	1
Media Future	1
QB Capital	1
Chibagin Capital	1
Industrial Growth Platform	1
Miyagin Venture Capital	1
Olympus	1
Development Bank of Japan	1
Globis Capital Partners	1
Leave a Nest	1
Hack Ventures	1
Axil Capital	1

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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

Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.

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

Portfolio highlights

Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
Yap — Yap helps pharmaceutical businesses enter the market in a multitude of methods.
Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.

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, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
Yoii Fuel — Yoii Fuel is a software company which analyzes a company's KPIs and enables them to obtain a means of financing based on this data.
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.

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 B, Series A
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Axelspace — Axelspace is a startup company developing businesses in the microsatellite field. Axelspace plans to construct a monitoring platform to cover the entire globe on a daily basis at extremely low cost.
Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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 — Metcela Inc. is a pioneer biotechnology company founded in Japan. Metcela aims to be the first to commercialize biological products that heal damaged heart muscle to treat heart failure.
Rehab — Rehab for Japan is developing a special rehabilitation SaaS for day service .

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).

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.

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

BABY JOB — BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.

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.

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, Internet, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cellusion — Cellular technology breakthrough for clear vision of the future.
Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.
Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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

Portfolio highlights

EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.
Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.

Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.

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.

Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization of science and technology that implements science and technology policy in Japan. It handles many projects, including the government’s Science and Technology Basic Plan and knowledge creation. The European Sustainability School ESSSR is the owner of Japan Science and TechnologyAgency.Japan Science and Technology Agency undertakes its task in a comprehensive manner. It also works to provide a sound infrastructure of science and technology information and raise awareness and understanding of science and technology-related issues in Japan.Japan Science and Technology Agency is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.

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.
Save Medical Corp. — Digital Therapeutic company for Japan market. First product is for Type 2 Diabetes patients.
Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development — The Japan Medical Device Development Organization aims to activate Japan's medical innovation and medical device industry, centering on the medical device incubation business, and aim for Japan to become a world leader in this field.Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development is a country of craftsmanship, possesses high technicaland quality control skills, and should be good at producing medical equipment. However, in the medical device field, imports exceed 600 billion yen every year. Japan's “manufacturing” technology has not been fully utilized.

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.
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.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
Tupu — Tupu engages in the manufacture and supply of mushroom-based foods.
German Bionic — German Bionic is backed by renowned international technology investors such as Samsung Catalyst Fund, Storm Ventures and MIG, which is also invested in Covid-19 vaccine developer BioNTech. The company and its products are regularly featured in top-tier publications and are the recipients of numerous awards including the German Entrepreneur Award,the Land of Ideas Award, the Automatica Award as well as a nomination for Hannover Messe’s coveted Hermes Award.The German Bionic Cray X is the world’s first connected exoskeleton. Linked to the Smart Factory, it self-learns to reinforce lifting movements and prevent incorrect posture, thus becoming an intelligent link between humans and machines. In doing so, it delivers data that underscores its ability to protect the health of workers, measurably reduce the risk of accidents, and thereby make quantifiable improvements to work processes.

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

Portfolio highlights

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 Inc. — 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.

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.

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

Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
Nanox Imaging — Nanox Vision develops a next-generation medical imaging system based on groundbreaking technology. Our aim is to democratize medical imaging and bring preventive healthcare to communities worldwide, helping create a better standard of care for all.
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.

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

Metcela — Metcela Inc. is a pioneer biotechnology company founded in Japan. Metcela aims to be the first to commercialize biological products that heal damaged heart muscle to treat heart failure.
Mira Robotics — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Melody International Japan — Melody International Japan is a company that supports medical and health with ICT.

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

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 Inc. — 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.

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, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Series B, Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FiNC — FiNC combines data analysis, rich content, and social elements to help users log, understand, manage, and improve their health and wellness.
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.

The mission of Chugai Pharmaceutical is to dedicate itself to adding exceptional value through the creation of innovative medical products and services for the benefit of the medical community and human health around the world.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AdipoSeeds — Making Platelets from Fat and Inventing New Blood Supply System.

Toho Holdings focuses on pharmaceutical wholesale business, dispensing pharmacy business, and pharmaceutical manufacturing business. The firm was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cellusion — Cellular technology breakthrough for clear vision of the future.
Aevice Health — Aevice Health Imagine: A World With Control Over Chronic Respiratory Disease. We develop solutions that empower patients to take charge
United Immunity — Just another WordPress site

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.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
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.

Essential Pharma provided on this site is created for the purpose of providing information on our ethical drugs to medical professionals

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).

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Lisse — Lisse offers legal business innovation through the use of AI.
DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Content, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
Yoii Fuel — Yoii Fuel is a software company which analyzes a company's KPIs and enables them to obtain a means of financing based on this data.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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
Aba — Aba develops products that reduce the burden of nursing care. Aba company has developed a device that can detect and record the excretion status of the care recipient, aiming to solve the mental and physical burden of the carer / care recipient by excretion sensing and pattern analysis.
EmbodyMe — Making the unimaginable, imaginable with AI

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).

QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
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.
Co-LABO MAKER — Co-LABO MAKER is a service that matches research equipment that can be used on an hourly or daily basis and organizations.

Chibagin Capital, part of Chiba Bank, is focused on consulting services, IPOs, and more.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Construction
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
Strobolight — Strobolight provides consistent support such as production, construction and maintenance by staff with expertise to users who have trouble with garden.
Algal Bio — Algal Bio is an food tech startup, was established in 2018 based upon 20 years of research results at the University of Tokyo.

Industrial Growth Platform provides operational and financial services to companies. It also offers management support, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisition advisory services. Industrial Growth Platform was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Medical Device, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

DeepX — DeepX is an AI startup company based in Tokyo that was founded in 2016 by graduates from the University of Tokyo, Japan’s leading institution of higher education. After three strong years of establishing ourselves, we continue to grow and are ready to make an impact on society through our work. Our core mission is to ‘automate any machinery’ andsupported by our successful projects, we believe that Deep Learning and its real-world implementations will bring an unprecedented breakthrough to solve current and future societal problems. A key challenge that Japan is currently facing is a super-aging society and a shrinking labor population leading to shortages. We develop software to automate machines ranging from small industrial robots to big heavy equipment. Our control models can achieve flexible operation for various environments and conditions using cutting-edge technology such as Deep Reinforcement Learning.
beBit, Inc. — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.
ACES — ACES is providing image recognition algorithms such as object recognition and face and expression recognition

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.

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, Series B
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.

Hack Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in the fields of rehabilitation, support business, and advice on initial public.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

BABY JOB — BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses.
BitClout — BitClout is a platform owned by its users. Bitcoin is decentralizing money, BitClout is decentralizing social media.
On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

Axil Capital is a venture capital firm investing in companies in the biomedical and healthcare fields from the early stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AIBIOS — Leading biotech focused on R&D of novel drug discovery and development in the therapeutic areas of Immunology, Oncology, and Neuroscience.
GEXVal — GEXVal is to help patients and families fighting against orphan and intractable diseases
Suono Bio — Suono Bio is a biotechnology company harnessing our proprietary delivery platform to transform treatment of intractable diseases.

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