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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Japan

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Music startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Japan

Investor Music Japan investments
Genesia Ventures 3
East Ventures 3
ANOBAKA 3
SMBC Venture Capital 2
Kazuomi Kaneto 2
Ceres 2
Kotaro Chiba 2
Kotaro Chiba 2
mixi 2
Z Venture Capital 2
UNITED 2
iSGS Investment Works 2
MIRAISE 2
Towa Pharmaceutical 1
Otsuka Holdings 1
DeNA 1
Nextblue 1
Masanori Sugiyama 1
Shoko Chukin Bank 1
Yamaguchi Capital 1
Sony Innovation Fund 1
KDDI Open Innovation Fund 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
Dentsu Ventures 1
Bricks Fund Tokyo 1
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment (021 Fund) 1
XTech Ventures 1
Uzabase 1
San-in Godo Bank 1
PE&HR 1
Mobile Internet Capital 1
MUFG Bank 1
Sony Music Entertainment 1
Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings 1
The Seed Capital 1
Murata Manufacturing 1
ANRI 1
B Dash Ventures 1
iFund 1
Gogin Skyland Next Fund 1
Salesforce Ventures 1
Masashige Obara 1
Takeshi Natsuno 1
Resona Bank 1
Soga Takeshi 1
Mint 1
Allfuz 1
Japan Finance 1
Gumi Ventures 1
NES Venture Capital 1
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Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Oyraa Inc. — Oyraa provides online meetings and conference apps. Their interpreters will help you communicate not only in business but also in personal situations, such as in hospitals and real estate agencies.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 48 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
Kazuomi Kaneto Angel
Kazuomi Kaneto is the Founder & CEO of Dream Project Incubators. He previously worked at Pacifico Energy as a Founder, President & CEO. Kazuomi Kaneto attended Tsinghua University.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Persistent Energy Partners — Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
Ceres VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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 an Internet Company.
Kotaro Chiba Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Drones, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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 an Internet Company.
mixi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Mixi is a Japanese social networking service that allows users to connect with their friends in a convenient way.It enables users to send and receive messages, write in a diary, read and comment on others' diaries, organize and join communities, and invite their friends.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Apps, Media and Entertainment
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Clepseadra — Clepseadra is a software company that creates sound and realistic audio files for personal and commercial uses.
  • Meson Tokyo — Meson Tokyo provides Games, Entertainment, AR, software, game basic technology, application development, VR & AR.
  • LightFury Games — India's true AAA game studio with a vision to pioneer a new era of gaming by creating groundbreaking AAA titles that entertain and inspire players worldwide.
Z Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, South Korea, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
UNITED VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
  • Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
iSGS Investment Works VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Inter — VIRUTUOUS CYCLE OF ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY
  • Gojo & Company — Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.
MIRAISE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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!
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Yozboshi — Yozboshi is a software firm that develops accounting software along with legal compliance consulting services.
  • Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
  • Hexabase — Hexabase(formerly Beee Technology) is a venture company developing in-house IT services for corporations. Their greatest mission is to think, develop, and propose a system that can solve the business problems of corporate customers by making full use of the latest IT technology.Hexabase offers Cloud services and EBaaS [Hexabase] that specializedin corporate system development.
Towa Pharmaceutical VC Fund · Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
The Towa Group contributes to people's health by creating superior products and services. Through our corporate activities, we aim to be a company that is pleased and sought after by all people, including patients, healthcare professionals, and local communities.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Medical, Robotics
  • Series A, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • INNOPHYS — INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planningto expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
Otsuka Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Otsuka Pharmaceutical was established in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan in 1964. At Otsuka Pharmaceutical, we are committed to a holistic approach to health and well-being of people and are striving to create innovative, thoroughly-original: pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products based on our corporate philosophy “Otsuka-people creating newproducts for better health worldwide”. Analogous to riding on a bicycle, we drive on two wheels.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Therapeutics, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
  • Renascience — Renascience is a pharmaceuticals company.
  • OE Therapeutics — OE Therapeutics provides digital therapeutics for suicide prevention.
DeNA VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
  • Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
  • Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.
Nextblue VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nextblue is a Tokyo and Berlin based early-stage Venture Capital investing in disruptive and impact-driven startups in Japan and EU
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • kencko — kencko started with the simple belief that organic fruits and vegetables should be available anytime, anywhere, in any shape or format. kencko is on a mission to reinvent fresh organic fruits and vegetables into convenient products that are hassle-free to consume while preserving all the goodness of freshly harvested produce.
  • Bento — Create a beautiful page to show your audience everything you are, create, and sell in one link. Designed in Berlin.
  • Bento — Discover the people and stories behind the coolest projects, and share how you've built yours.
Masanori Sugiyama Angel
He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
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 .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Shoko Chukin Bank VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, Artificial Intelligence
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
  • LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
  • Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
Yamaguchi Capital VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Manufacturing, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Payn — Payn is a digital billing tool that automates the cancellation fee billing process by automating message sending and billing reminders.
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
Sony Innovation Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.
KDDI Open Innovation Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MOV — MOV is a technology platform. They offer SaaS for stores that can collectively manage word-of-mouth sites and visualize and analyze customer feedback. It distributes inbound market data, news, and know-how to domestic companies. Their services include inbound support and consulting.
  • DataMesh — DataMesh empowers conventional enterprises to adopt intelligent design, accelerate service deployment, and execute cost-effective planning processes by leveraging Digital Twin and Mixed Reality technologies.
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 51 investments in the past 12 months
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
  • Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
  • Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Dentsu Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Dentsu. It specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments. It prefers to invest in the marketing and communication business sectors in the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Virtual Reality, Internet
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
  • Fiddler AI — Monitor, observe, analyze, and explain your machine learning models in production with Fiddler AI. Maximize ML model performance with our Model Performance Management Platform that simply plugs in.
Bricks Fund Tokyo VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Bricks Fund Tokyo collaborates to establish new enterprises that address social challenges and alter industrial systems.
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Investment focus
  • Nursing and Residential Care
  • Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ivry — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • VALT JAPAN — VALT JAPAN is a social business compan that continues to pursue solutions to social issues.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment (021 Fund) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund is a fund to invest in startups to create new entertainment and build its IP Metaverse.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Magma — Welcome to Magma. A space that unlocks creativity for all. A collaborative art platform that brings artists, teams and communities together to innovate, collaborate and express themselves. Want to join the ride?
  • Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • RENDEZ-VOUS — RENDEZ-VOUS offers a co-ownership option for vintage cars.
Uzabase VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Official corporate site of Uzabase, Inc., the provider of SPEEDA, NewsPicks and other services
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Investment focus
  • Content, Information Services, SNS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Arches — Arches is a sharing platform focusing on Asian market. It's mission is to accelerate the growth of our global clients sharing the respectable knowledge, network, resources of local experts on our platform. We provide the experts / distributors matching platform and help our clients to understand the industry, enter Asian market throughknowledge sharing between the local experts and clients.
  • EventHub — Deliver engaging B2B events with the event platform designed with lead generation and nurturing in mind. Webinars, expos, conferences, job fairs, meetups, and more.
  • Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.
San-in Godo Bank VC Fund · Matsue, Shimane, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
San-in Godo Bank provides financial services to its customers. They provide services for opening accounts, accepting deposits, creating and managing assets, obtaining loans, and providing insurance.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, SNS, Content Creators
  • Corporate Round, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Aruya Umu — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.
PE&HR VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Fashion, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • MEME — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
Mobile Internet Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
MUFG Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
  • Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
  • Zenobe Energy — Discover Zenobe. Our vision: enable the transition to zero-carbon, non-polluting power and transport systems through the innovative use of battery storage.
Sony Music Entertainment VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, SCA bought the company and, in 1991, renamed it SME. In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Digital Media, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MakersPlace — MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Slip.stream — The world's largest creator safe music library built for creators. One subscription gives you unlimited downloads, for unlimited channels, on unlimited digital platforms. Royalty free. No takedowns.
  • Tiger Media — tigermedia develop media for children as they should be: child-friendly, safe and with a lot of heart
Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
  • Moodify — Moodify develops unique active scents that enables you to improve your performance, enhance your well being and increase your safety
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
The Seed Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Architecture, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
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.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • AI Communis — Automatic Speech Recognition, NLP, SaaS
Murata Manufacturing VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
This is Murata Manufacturing's products-related website. You can view electronic component information, product and event news, exhibition, campaign and webinar information, application guides, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Semiconductor, Information Technology, Electronics
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
  • Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
  • Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
  • Fixx — Fixx is an automobile company that provides on-site car maintenance and other mechanic services.
  • Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.
iFund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
iFund is an investment and financial service firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Content
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • YUIMEX — YUIMEX specializes in copyright, digital content, animation, and network entertainment services.
  • Adavito — Adavito engages in the planning, development, and operation of internet business.
Gogin Skyland Next Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gogin Skyland Next Fund is an early-stage venture funding fund that Gougin funding and Skyland Ventures oversee.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Video, Content Creators
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
Salesforce Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
100% invested in enterprise cloud companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Japan, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Sixfold AI — Sixfold AI is a generative artificial intelligence tool that is developed and educated to handle the most difficult problems in the insurance industry. The company provides AI-powered tools to underwriters.
  • Cohere — Cohere provides industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and RAG capabilities tailored to meet the needs of enterprise use cases that solve real-world problems.
  • Ensemble AI — Ensemble AI is based on innovative research in AI/ML, offering Feature Enhancement for tabular data, and built to generate actionable data insights for private AI modeling.
Masashige Obara Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Masashige Obara
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Investment focus
  • E-Learning, Education, SNS
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Lang-8 — Lang-8 is the best place for learning and practicing foreign languages. Post an entry in the language you are learning, then a native speaker will correct your entries. Currently there are more than 80 languages available on Lang-8.
  • LanCul — LanCul is an education based start up.
  • TIGALA — TIGALA is deployed M & A services
Takeshi Natsuno Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mr. Takeshi Natsuno serves as the Chairman of Japan Operations at Great Wall Club. Mr. Natsuno is a Professor of KEIO University. He served as a General Manager of Consumer Services Division and Manager of Distribution Platform Business Development Division at Pia Corporation since April 2012 and served as its Chief of Sales Promotion Bureau sinceApril 2010. He joined DoCoMo in 1997. He served as the Managing Director of Multimedia Services, Products & Services Division for NTT DoCoMo Inc. until June 23, 2009 and served as its General Manager of i-Mode Planning Division since July 2001, Senior Vice President from June 21, 2005 to June 23, 2009, Executive Officer and General Manager Multimedia Service Division since June 2005. At NTT DoCoMo, he developed the business strategy of all of NTT DoCoMo’s multimedia-related services, including i-mode strategic alliances with global application/content providers and key Internet players. He served as Vice President of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He started his career with Tokyo Gas. He held key executive positions with HyperNet. He has been a Director of Dwango Co. Ltd., since December 1, 2008. He has been a Outside Director at Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. since June 2008. He has been a Director at Pia Corporation since April 2010. He serves as a Director of D.L.E Co. Ltd. He has been a Director of Gree, Inc. since September 2009 and Trans Cosmos, Inc. since 2008. He serves as a Director of GREE Ventures, Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Great Wall Club. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of SBI Holdings Inc. from June 27, 2008 to June 28, 2012. He served as a Director of Hyper Net Co., Ltd. since June 1996. He is the Author of i-mode Strategy, published in 2000, a la i-mode, published in 2002, Keitai-no-Mirai, published in 2006, Iccho-yen kaseida otokono shigotojutu, and Google ni izonshi Amazon wo maneru bakakigyou published in 2009. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from Waseda University, Japan in 1988 and an Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Music, Venture Capital
  • Angel, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ZUU — ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites. It also supports the asset management and asset advisor business of executives with finance and IT.
  • Zuu Online — ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media which provides original insights on financial market news,the latest business trend and personal finance advice
  • Confidence — Confidence ensures that the entertainment industry's cutting-edge manufacturers will be able to fulfil their objectives in the future.
Resona Bank VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Resona Bank provides various banking products and services for individual and corporate customers in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Internet of Things
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Brushup — Brushup is a review tool that dramatically streamlines the checking and feedback of files such as designs, videos, PDFs and Office document.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
  • LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
Soga Takeshi Angel · Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
Soga Takeshi
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Investment focus
  • Music, Mobile, Content
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Mint VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Web Apps, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bunzz — Comprehensive dev tool for Smart Contracts, AI based audit, and analysis.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Allfuz VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Allfuz is a contents boutique that offers advertisement planning, production, contracting, management, and promotion; as well as talent casting, content development, platform development, and more.Allfuz was launched in May 2012 as a company that develops and expands the possibilities of completely new entertainment services. For example,specifically, a casting business that focuses on the hobbies and tastes of artists and talents.Allfuz is developing a new service that integrates advertising production for the first time in Japan, and is currently working on diversified services that are not bound by existing frameworks, such as "digital content" and "restaurant business."
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Investment focus
  • Music, Video, Mobile
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Lute — Lute is an Instagram Stories media that produce and deliver video content specialized for mobile to deliver edgy content to the digital native generation worldwide. In order to realize the above, lute pays tribute to the historical backgrounds and past works that have had a great influence on the artists and their works that are currently active,their appearance and development, cultural We will produce video works with value and contextual appeal.The vision of lute like this is to protect the rights of authors, etc. while keeping in mind the fair use of cultural property (= content), contributing to the development of culture ", the 1st Copyright Law No. 1 It is in keeping with the objectives stipulated by the Article.Therefore, lute will actively use / quote contents such as voice, images including pictures, video etc.
Japan Finance VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Japan, India, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
  • Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
  • OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.
Gumi Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, Finland
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.
  • Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
  • Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
NES Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Web3
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • YADOKARI — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
  • SHINSEKAI Technologies — SHINSEKAI Technologies focuses on supporting companies, enabling them to advance their services to Web3 and NFT technologies.
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