# Top 50 Mobile Apps VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in June 2026

## Venture United
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Travel, Content

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

## First Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Advertising

First Light Capital is venture capital firm.

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical

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

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## Incubate Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## ANRI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Monex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

## SMBC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Genesia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

## Miraidoa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology

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.

## SBI Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

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.

## MIRAISE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

## DBJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Medical, Health Care

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.

## Ceres
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

## JAFCO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

## Beenos Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before 

## F Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

## Sansei Capital Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Koto, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Content, Medical, Task Management

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

## GMO VenturePartners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

An investment that restructures the  value  and  quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

## Chiba Dojo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.

## Archetype Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

## YJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

## Coconala Skill Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Apps

coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.

## Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

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

## OPT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Mobile, Advertising, Apps

OPT, Inc. is Japanese e-marketing company, which supports customer's Internet marketing holding the concept 'e-marketing that would directly into sales'.OPT, Inc. aims to create new market by realizing maximizing customer's ROI and finding the best way of solutions to the customer's problem. It is the OPT'stask to propose collectively the way how to use the Internet as a marketing tool for customers and support them.In order to maximize customer's ROI, it is necessary to make ads, develop sites, develop marketing strategies, and support communication and IT strategies.At OPT. Inc: it has wide business lines, customers would be supported by the 4 business fields making ads, technology, solution, and contents.The important thing for the e-marketing company is always standing the idea "market in" not "product out". And so OPT, Inc instantaneously developed its own tool to objectively effect measurement and has tried to improve customer's marketing by using the objective data.

## DAN Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series F
- Focus: Software, Apps, EdTech

DAN Venture Capital operates CAMPFIRE Angels, an equity crowdfunding platform.

## NAVER Z
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: 3D Technology, Content, Software

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## Leapfrog Ventures Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sales, Mobile Apps, Sales Automation

Leapfrog Ventures Japan is a joint venture with Samurai Incubate which will invest in seed-stage startups of Eastern Africa.

## GoAngel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Web Design, Mobile Apps

GoAngel is a consulting business for introducing accounting and ERP systems.

## JA Mitsui Leasing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet of Things

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

## ITOCHU Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Colopl Next
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

## DD Holdings Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Ethereum, Education

DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

## Money Forward Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

## Gree
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Internet

Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users. Gree shares development and operational expertise across all its studios as Gree always works to create new game models for its customers.

## Mirai Creation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Information Technology, Manufacturing

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.   

## KLab Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Video, Guides

Since 2009, with the rapid spread of social media, smartphones, and cloud computing, new internet services and software technologies are appearing faster than ever. In addition to this, we believe the current economic environment is more and more supportive of venture capital firms investing in the creation of new businesses. This is where KLabVentures Inc. comes in, bearing a proud lineage from two premier firms at the forefront of the modern world--KLab Inc. and SBI Investment Co., Ltd.KLab Inc., founded in 2000, is a firm commanding an impressive wealth of technical expertise, amassed from years of successful research and development. This innovation, used in tandem with proven business-building strategies, has allowed KLab Inc. to rise to the vanguard in its specialty fields of social media, cloud computing, licensing, and systems integration--all areas possessing a natural synergy. Together with SBI Investment Co., Ltd.--which since its founding in 1996 has overseen investment in about 700 domestic and foreign companies, and IPO and M&A exits of about 120 companies--KLab Ventures Inc. was founded.We are here to support venture enterprises seeking to become global leaders in cutting-edge internet fields, as well as other venture firms with expectations of significant growth, helping them to realize their potential to mature, succeed, and pioneer. Such is our mission at KLab Ventures.

## FGN ABBA Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology

FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups.
In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of ​​creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.

## aucfan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet

Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

## Persol Cross Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Consulting, Mobile Apps, Web Development

Persol Cross Technology offes various DX-driven IoT and mobility services.

## Naver Webtoon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment, Apps

Naver Webtoon specializes in content research and development, design, business support, and technology services.

## Okinawa Development Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Medical, Nursing and Residential Care

Okinawa Development Finance Corporation provides policy-based financial services.

## GREE Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

GREE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups.

## Bengo4.com
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Information Technology, SaaS

Bengo 4.com is a legal consulting web that offers free legal counseling services.

## Japan Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

## Tenjinya
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Tenjinya is a Japanese firm established in Shizuoka that produces and sells traditional dishes, including Shizuoka Oden, a local specialty.

## K Auction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Messaging

K Auction is an art auction company that offers modern and contemporary Korean art.

## MTG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

## Cookpad
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, E-Learning

Cookpad is a recipe site that allows visitors to upload and search through original, user-created recipes. The service is currently available in Japanese, English, Spanish, and Indonesian.
Cookpad was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with overseas offices located in California U.S.; Alicante, Spain; and Jakarta, Indonesia.

## Giftee
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Internet, Marketing

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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