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Top 50 Medical VC Funds in Japan

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Medical startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Medical VC Funds in Japan

Investor	Medical Japan investments
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	14
Keio Innovation Initiative	10
SMBC Venture Capital	10
Nissay Capital	8
ANRI	8
SBI Investment	6
Japan Science and Technology Agency	5
DBJ Capital	5
DNX Ventures	5
UTokyo Innovation Platform	5
Fast Track Initiative, Inc.	5
Mobile Internet Capital	4
Coral Capital	4
Real Tech Japan	4
Incubate Fund	3
Nippon Venture Capital	3
Genesia Ventures	3
Capital Medica Ventures	3
IT-Farm	3
Takeda	3
Tsukuba Institute of Research	3
KSP	3
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment	3
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	3
Angel Bridge	3
JIC Venture Growth Investments	2
Pegasus Tech Ventures	2
Scrum Ventures	2
Sony Innovation Fund	2
STRIVE	2
Sony	2
Fujifilm	2
Energy & Environment Investment	2
Astellas Venture Management	2
Lifetime Ventures	2
Vector	2
MAKOTO Capital	2
Toyota Tsusho	2
Mizuho Capital	2
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation	2
Future Venture Capital	2
ANOBAKA	2
MedVenture Partners	2
DOGAN beta	2
Essential Pharma	2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	2
NEDO	2
Cyberdyne	2
Ohara Pharmaceutical	2
REVIC	2

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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.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

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.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.

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.

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.

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.

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Yamori — Yamori is a software development company which offers a cloud real estate management platform to realize stable rental management.
Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.

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.

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 B, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AIRNA — AIRNA is on a mission to transform the lives of patients with rare and common diseases by pioneering thediscovery and development of RNA editing therapeutics.
Storm Therapeutics — Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.

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.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

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.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Malme — Malme is a company that operates in the fields of 3D technology, architecture, civil engineering, and construction. The company offers total support for BIM/CIM operations, with a team of engineers who are well-versed in construction consulting. The company's motto is to 'update civil engineering', indicating a commitment tocontinuous innovation and improvement in the field. The company's services are designed to assist in the planning and execution of construction projects, leveraging advanced 3D technology and architectural expertise.
Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
Gaxie Co — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.

Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on startups in the healthcare industry.Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital that operates a venture fund specializing in the healthcare field. It is the only healthcare-specialized VC in Japan that can provide 30 medical institutions as a business trialfield.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HCMJ — HCMJ specializes in software development in the medical industry.
Epigno — Epigno provides hospital management systems for medical institutions.
Rehab — Rehab for Japan is developing a special rehabilitation SaaS for day service .

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.

Takeda is a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients by translating science into life-changing medicines.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ambys Medicines — Ambys Medicines is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing regenerative and restorative therapies. Ambys Medicines is working to fundamentally transform the lives of people suffering from severe liver diseases by creating breakthrough therapies capable of restoring liver function, preventing the progression of liver disease,and treating the devastating complications of liver failure.
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

Tsukuba Institute of Research (筑波総研) is an R&D center owned by housing and wood products group Sumitomo Forestry. The facility develops technologies to make more effective use of wood in a wide range of fields.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
Alchemedicine — Alchemedicine is a the world in drug discovery with unique technologies and ideas Innovating new drug candidates for diseases with high unmet medical needs.
Veneno Technologies — Veneno Technologies engages in the research and development of therapeutic disulfide-rich peptides and contribute to advanced medicine.

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.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust provides Japanese equity products for corporate and governmental pension funds. SMTB also provides products investing in Asian equities. The capability was developed through its experience in Japanese equity, although it maintains an investment team in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Series D, Series A, Series B
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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.
Aculys Pharma — Accuris Pharma is a pharmaceutical company that aims to develop innovative and superior medical methods and deliver them to patients.

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
PR Table — PR Table is a provider of a public relation platform designed to offer corporate storytelling. The company's platform creates, accumulate and utilizes story for marketing and advertisement, enabling corporate clients to transmit information on story publication, recruitment and information focused on founding episodes.
Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

Investment focus

Medical, Nursing and Residential Care, Consulting
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.
GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Consulting
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Indonesia, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Imbed Biosciences — Imbed Biosciences, Inc, (“Imbed”) is a privately held medical device company developing novel and patent-pending technologies for imbedding bioactive molecules in wound dressings and surgical implants. By leveraging its novel biomaterials platforms, Imbed is revolutionizing wound dressings to prevent wound infections and expedite wound closure, andideally reduce the overall cost of managing surgical and chronic wounds, a $3 billion market opportunity in the U.S. and Europe. Imbed is a spin-off from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, based on 4 years of research by a multidisciplinary group of engineers, veterinary scientists and medical surgeons. Collectively, the founders bring more than 25 years of experience in clinical wound management.
Epicore Biosystems — Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is basedon over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.

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.

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
Mercado Único — Mercado Único is a B2B platform for the distribution and management of opportunistic sales of Consumer Goods that are close to expiration and slow-moving, connecting suppliers (manufacturers/distributors) to buyers (retailers/distributors) with items that have predictable and immediate use at discounted prices.

Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony is a mix of consumer electronics and various well-known brand names, such as Walkman in portable audio players, Vaio in PCs, Xperia in smartphones, Cybershot and Alpha in digital cameras, and PlayStationin video game consoles.Sony has seven main business segments, operating electronic appliances, games, devices and semiconductors, entertainment content, and financial services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
Superplastic — Superplastic is the world's top creator of vinyl figures, digital collectibles, and animated celebrities. Join us for a disturbingly awesome time.
NODWIN Gaming — NODWIN Gaming is a gaming solutions company and creator of e-sports events. NODWIN Gaming is a esports company, leading the industry across various games with numerous online and offline competitions. It operates high profile, branded international and esports competitions.

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.

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Software, Energy
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.

Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.

Investment focus

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

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Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a precision-medicine-focused company developing therapeutics to eliminate disease-driving cells.

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Marketing
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

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ekei labs — Made with Framer
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.
MORPHEUS — Development of Nose To Brain Drug Delivery System (DDS)

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

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PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
The Ethical Spirits & Co. — The Ethical Spirits & Co. is an online store for spirits and alcohol.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
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.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

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, Corporate Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Japan DX — Japan DX platform provides a comprehensive data-driven services to inbound tourists to Japan.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

INGAGE — INGAGE Inc. - Make IT Easy -
Vena Energy — Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region.
Gasoducto de Morelos — Gasoducto de Morelos offer natural gas transportation, including the measurement of quality and quantity of the product received, and all the actions necessary for its delivery.

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

My Salon — My Salon is an AI cosmetics recommendation service that provides skin care services.
Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
Fotographer AI — Fotographer.ai is a service that allows e-commerce companies and individuals interested in advertising creatives to generate product photos automatically for use on their websites and in marketing. Product photos for websites and commercials that need to be taken for each campaign or season can be generated using generative AI.

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.

They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company

Investment focus

Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
Geofra — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.

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).

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 B, Series A
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
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.

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

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

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.

REVIC is an organization that supports the business revitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises and regional revitalization in order to revitalize Japan's regional economy and contribute to strengthening the foundation of credit order. It was established in March of the year by reorganizing its predecessor, the Enterprise TurnaroundInitiative Corporation. It supports the business feasibility evaluation conducted by regional financial institutions to provide solutions that match the life stages of local companies, based on the current situation and issues of the regional economy and industry.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

PuREC — Just another WordPress site
mAbProtein — mAbProtein is a research and develop, manufacture, and sell research reagents, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals that utilize the research seeds (special antibody production technology) of Prof.
S-Nanotech Co-Creation — S-Nanotech Co-Creation is a manufacture and sale of functional materials and their related devices and equipment and it is a design, manufacture and sale of machinery, optical equipment, electronic equipment, analytical equipment and their components.

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