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Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Mobile startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Mobile startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
6 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content $425k–$26M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Internet, Apps $700k–$213M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
4 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Content, Software $320k–$43M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
4 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$43M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning $1.4M–$14M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Apps $360k–$14M
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
2 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $455k–$30M
Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
2 Japan Seed Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce $16M–$18M
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps $278k–$30M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Toru Shimada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Internet, Task Management, Apps $453k–$14M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources $968k–$71M
Masahiko Inada
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Seed SNS, Content, Finance $553k–$5.8M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Internet, Marketing $764k–$16M
Takeuchi Makoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A Information Technology, Mobile, Medical $11M–$326M
Jun Tarikino
Angel
2 Japan Seed Lifestyle, Mobile Apps, Real Estate $553k–$5.8M
Masao Ito
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $661k–$17M
Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Marketing $2.5M–$41M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Internet $690k–$33M
Takashi Shibayama
Angel
2 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming $553k–$5.8M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series C Internet, Consulting, Financial Services $3.3M–$33M
Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Local, Content $3.3M–$9M
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, E-Commerce $480k–$11M
Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources $455k–$73M
Yuya Taketani
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, News, Mobile
Hatanaka Yosuke
Angel
1 Japan Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
Minomiya Takeo
Angel
1 Japan Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan Angel Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Shoji Kodama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series B Internet, Real Estate, Fashion $925k–$14M
Koichiro Yoshida
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Analytics $218k–$24M
Masaru Tange
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Food Delivery $3.2M–$43M
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series B, Angel Apps, Sports, Content $735k–$221M
Keisuke Honda
Angel
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1.3M–$100M
Sasaki Tsutomu
Angel
1 Japan Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
Takahashi Shoko
Angel
1 Japan Seed Mobile, Hardware, Bioinformatics
Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Corporate Round Fashion, Software, Advertising $9M–$11M
Teruhide Sato
Angel
1 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Apps $360k–$17M
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
1 Japan Seed Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps $925k–$2.1M
Ken Soga
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D Music, Content, E-Commerce $457k–$9.9M
Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Virtual Reality, Content, Internet $320k–$26M
Ken Takayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Apps $6.2M–$43M
Narimatsu Jun
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO $4.3M–$6.9M
Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Fashion, Internet, Software $1.3M–$74M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$47M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $272k–$17M
Soga Takeshi
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, Mobile, Content $609k–$9.9M
Scott McNealy
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Analytics, Information Technology $950k–$234M
Yuta Fukazawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Mobile, Software
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 6 investments in Japan Mobile startups

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$24M; Angel $425k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$41M; Angel $320k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Mobile startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$43M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Spider Labs — Spider AF is an ad fraud detection tool that detects, blocks, and protects web advertisements from fraudulent clicks and conversions. Advertisers can easily detect fraudulent activity across published ads using centralized fraud management and advanced automation. Spider AF provides complete transparency in digital advertising, allowing advertisersto track ad placement, identify fraudulent behaviors, and analyze clean - fraud-free data.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $510k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $278k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • SPeak — SPeak is an IT services firm that operates web content and matching platforms for global talents. It operates JPort Match, which is involved in direct recruiting services. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Task Management, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $453k–$14M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$70M; Angel $2.8M–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
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Masahiko Inada
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Theoria — Theoria is a marketing team that brings together practical knowledge.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
  • Theoria Japan — Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $764k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shiftus — Shiftus is a communication application that can be used in various part-time job sites such as cafes, izakayas, hotels, supermarkets
  • Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
  • Giver Take All — Gibber Take All is a Planning, development and management of business sharing platform
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Takeuchi Makoto
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

At Yamanouchi and Astellas, engaged in drug discovery research in the areas of inflammation and bone metabolism, and created osteoporosis treatment minodronate and overactive bladder treatment solifenacin. After serving as Director of the Chemical Research Laboratory, Astellas Pharma Research Division, Executive Officer, Research PromotionDivision, and General Manager of the Research Management Division, he became Senior Executive Officer, External Relations Director. In addition, he has been involved in a wide range of industry activities, serving as the Research and Development Committee of the Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the chairman of the Industrial Policy Committee, and the Vice Chairman of the Regenerative Medicine Innovation Forum. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania (Professor Amos B Smith III) for one year from 2001. Graduated from Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Graduate School of Pharmacy. Lecturer at Seminar on Advanced Drug Discovery Science sponsored by the Pharmaceuticals Promotion Association

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$326M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
  • Linkage — Linkage is a Online health support business and Online specific health guidance.
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Jun Tarikino
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Jun Tarikino

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Mobile Apps, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$17M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$41M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $690k–$33M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
  • AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $628k–$43M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto — Grafto operates “Mylo Magazine,” a platform dedicated to sharing and promoting trend culture, where readers can explore the latest developments in lifestyle, fashion, art, and emerging cultural movements through engaging and curated content.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$7.1M; Series C $20M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UPWARDS — UPWARDS develop and operate the “cloud loan” loan platform for individuals.
  • CrowdLoan — CrowdLoan is a platform that connects financial institutions and individuals with smooth loans.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
  • Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Yuya Taketani
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yuya Taketani - Chief Executive Officer @ Gunosy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, News, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gunosy — Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.
  • MySherpa — MySherpa fosters a culture in which people can openly discuss mental health issues.
  • Telescope — Telescope Japan Internet Company
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Hatanaka Yosuke
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Hatanaka Yosuke

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • i3Systems — i3Systems provides cloud and mobile solutions, focus on the development and provision of the enterprise mobile management service. Their service creates innovation in each company's activities and leads people's lives to a richer direction. When such a society is realized, IT should be on their side as a more familiar thing. They flexiblytake new values ​​and contribute to the creation of new value and idealization. They strive to make their company and each employee healthy and healthy, and use the best technology and best engineering to provide solutions that make people smile. As a result, they will operate a business where customers, their company and each employee, family members and people involved will smile.
  • i cubed systems — i cubed systems provides information technology-related solutions for mobile devices.
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Minomiya Takeo
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Minomiya Takeo - Outside Director @ i3Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • i3Systems — i3Systems provides cloud and mobile solutions, focus on the development and provision of the enterprise mobile management service. Their service creates innovation in each company's activities and leads people's lives to a richer direction. When such a society is realized, IT should be on their side as a more familiar thing. They flexiblytake new values ​​and contribute to the creation of new value and idealization. They strive to make their company and each employee healthy and healthy, and use the best technology and best engineering to provide solutions that make people smile. As a result, they will operate a business where customers, their company and each employee, family members and people involved will smile.
  • i cubed systems — i cubed systems provides information technology-related solutions for mobile devices.
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Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
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Shoji Kodama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $925k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Koichiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Koichiro Yoshida is the CEO and Founder of CrowdWorks. He has completed a management program from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $218k–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Nose ID — Nose ID is a mobile application designed to monitor and protect pet dogs in the vicinity.
  • Mairu Tech — Mairu tech that enables traveling by private ambulance and welfare taxi more convenient.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$28M; Series A $21M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • EMET Creation — Vimet is a video app that allows you to instantly watch your favorite topic videos.ViMET offers high-quality video content that is currently talked about, Realizing a world where everyone can see, by providing new services, Restructure the power relationships of all players involved in existing video
  • S-Mat — S-Mat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $735k–$2.1M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
  • Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Keisuke Honda
Angel · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • MainFunc — MainFunc is a technology company building AI‑driven productivity tools, with a focus on enabling users, including knowledge workers and teams, to get real work done via autonomous AI agents. The company’s flagship product is Genspark, an AI workspace that automates tasks by collecting information from web searches, emails, meetings, and calls,processing it through a “Super Agent” that orchestrates many specialized AI sub‑agents, and generating outputs like full reports, slide decks, spreadsheets, or even prototype applications.In addition to productivity automation, MainFunc markets Genspark as an enhanced search and research tool: when users query the web, Genspark generates consolidated, bias‑reduced summaries using multiple underlying large‑language or multimodal models rather than relying on traditional keyword‑based ranking.
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Sasaki Tsutomu
Angel · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Tsutomu Sasaki is the CEO at i3Systems, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Enterprise, Information Services
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • i3Systems — i3Systems provides cloud and mobile solutions, focus on the development and provision of the enterprise mobile management service. Their service creates innovation in each company's activities and leads people's lives to a richer direction. When such a society is realized, IT should be on their side as a more familiar thing. They flexiblytake new values ​​and contribute to the creation of new value and idealization. They strive to make their company and each employee healthy and healthy, and use the best technology and best engineering to provide solutions that make people smile. As a result, they will operate a business where customers, their company and each employee, family members and people involved will smile.
  • i cubed systems — i cubed systems provides information technology-related solutions for mobile devices.
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Takahashi Shoko
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Takahashi Shoko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Hardware, Bioinformatics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
  • Blue Industries — Blue Industries is a medical technology company. They offer medical devices, nanotechnology, infectious disease, IOT, mechanical engineering, and bioengineering. The company specializes in physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology.
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $9M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
  • AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Teruhide Sato
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Teruhide Sato is based out of Singapore, Central Region and is the CEO and Founder of BEENEXT. Teruhide previously worked at BEENOS Partners as a Managing Partner. Teruhide Sato attended the Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$1.7M; Series A $2.1M–$8.5M; Series B $5.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
  • InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
  • Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Masayuki SHOBAYASHI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $925k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
  • Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
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Ken Soga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$11M; Angel $320k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
  • Gatari — Gatari specializes in the planning, development, and operation of XR services. Auris, a futuristic audio guide, and Vismuth, a camera app that transforms reality into a story, are two of Gatari's services.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M; Angel $6.2M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Narimatsu Jun
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Narimatsu Jun - Outside Director @ FiNC Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, SEO
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pulit — Pulit innovates the brand new Content Distribution Infra.
  • Play Life — PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information thatcoordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.
  • State of Mind — State of Mind is the development and operation of the cloud sourcing.
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$17M; Pre-Seed $272k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Soga Takeshi
Angel · Nerima, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Soga Takeshi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $609k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Univrs — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
  • SAKELOGY — SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
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Scott McNealy
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Scott McNealy is the Co Founder & Board Member at Curriki.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$40M; Series A $6M–$152M; Series B $15M–$234M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Single Origin — Today, while platforms like Snowflake/GCP/AWS unlock insights and exploration, the volume of pipelines, the complexity of infrastructure, and the increasing cost of computing are overwhelming data teams. Single Origin helps data-driven organizations boost team productivity while realizing cloud cost savings. Our unique query optimizationplatform, operating between data warehouse and data tools/applications, automatically analyzes all of an organization's queries; identifies expensive and inefficient ones; then optimizes queries to be 10X simpler, faster and cheaper. We are the team that built and scaled uMetric at Uber, as well as other data infrastructure tools across snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft. More at https://docs.singleorigin.tech/
  • Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
  • dweva.com — System Two Security offers a platform that combines AI agents and assistants to support detection engineering teams in processing intelligence, creating new detections, and managing detection libraries. The system enables users to draft and refine detections based on threat intelligence and coverage gaps.
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Yuta Fukazawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Mobile startups

Yuta Fukazawa - CEO and Founder @ AppBrew(Lips)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RINACITA — RINACITA is Color the world with excitement and excitement.The works created by artists and creators have the power to impress and make people happy.they want to make the world a place full of dreams with such excitement and excitement. Just as many artists were active with the support of patrons during the heyday of the Renaissance, they aim tocreate a society where individuals can create and play more freely using technology .
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Mobile Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 23 deals from 35 investors.

35
investors
in Japan Mobile startups
23
deals
in Japan Mobile startups
$19M
median round
in Japan Mobile startups
3%
lead investors
lead at least one round
43%
Seed
most common funding stage

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