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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Japan in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in April 2025

Investor	Music Japan investments
East Ventures	3
UNITED	3
Genesia Ventures	3
ANOBAKA	3
NES Venture Capital	2
MIRAISE	2
Ceres	2
Kazuomi Kaneto	2
Z Venture Capital	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
SMBC Venture Capital	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
mixi	2
FIREBUG	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
Fuji Pacific Music	1
The Seed Capital	1
Soga Takeshi	1
PE&HR	1
Chiba Dojo	1
Ken Soga	1
For Life Music Entertainment	1
GREE	1
Carbide Ventures	1
Takuma Kudo	1
Dentsu Ventures	1
KAYAC	1
Masanori Sugiyama	1
Shoko Chukin Bank	1
Sony Innovation Fund	1
ANRI	1
Paul Rosenberg	1
Saito Taro	1
Satoshi Aoyagi	1
Shizuoka Capital	1
Bricks Fund Tokyo	1
iFund	1
Resona Bank	1
NOW Japan	1
Towa Pharmaceutical	1
Uzabase	1
Gogin Skyland Next Fund	1
Takeshi Natsuno	1
Allfuz	1
MUFG Bank	1
Murata Manufacturing	1
Sony Music Entertainment	1
Mint	1
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment (021 Fund)	1
Daiki Ichikawa	1

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

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.

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Web3
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

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!

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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

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.

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.

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.

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, 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 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.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Apps, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
UniFa — UniFa is the developer of LookMee, an AI and IoT-powered healthcare solution for tracking kindergarteners' physical and mental growth. The system consists of LookMee Nap Check, an IoT sensor that aims to secure a baby's naptime; LookMee thermometer, which measures and monitors the baby's body temperature; and LookMee Photo, acommunication and photo-sharing service that collects data from children at kindergarten to give parents a better idea of their child's well-being
Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.

FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.

Investment focus

Music, B2C, Apps
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Baby Jam — Baby Jam is a music app that offers music promotion, video editing, videography, and transaction services.
Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
TicketMe — TicketMe is Japan's largest NFT, allows to freely purchase and sell tickets for live music, theater, sports, and other events. Its purpose is to ''find the hidden value in the world and deliver the appropriate value to the right location.

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Fuji Pacific Music, a music company.

Investment focus

Music, Content, Social Media
Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Lab — Lab is a music company that supports artists through digital marketing, aiming to expand fan bases through various strategies like YouTube, social media, concerts, and fashion sales. They prioritize artists' music, personality, concept, and message to foster closer connections between artists and fans.

The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.

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

Soga Takeshi

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.

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.

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.
BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
Zaimo.ai — Zaimo's AI-driven SaaS budget planning and management software sounds like AI integration can bring significant advantages in automating tasks like tracking expenses, forecasting future spending patterns, and offering personalized budgeting suggestions.
MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Content, Service Industry, SNS
Seed, Series D
Japan

Portfolio highlights

UNIVRS — UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform.
Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
Mono.un — Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world.

For Life Music Entertainment is a music record company.

Investment focus

Music, Content, Social Media
Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Lab — Lab is a music company that supports artists through digital marketing, aiming to expand fan bases through various strategies like YouTube, social media, concerts, and fashion sales. They prioritize artists' music, personality, concept, and message to foster closer connections between artists and fans.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Gaming, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Oasys — Oasys is a Blockchain designed exclusively for the gaming industry.
Oasys — Oasys is a Blockchain designed exclusively for the gaming industry.
Bankers Holding — Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet.

Carbide Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Payments, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.

Takuma Kudo is the Branding Director at dof Inc.

Investment focus

B2C, Music, Consulting
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

Creating and ConnectingOur imagination knows no bounds and we believe in everyone's creative abilities.In Japanese, we describe ourselves as an "omoshiro" company. It is hard to translate but it kind of means playful, fun and interesting. What we really want is to create things that are fun for people to use. And that'swhy we hire free-spirited and light-hearted people who won't lose their playful creativity at work.KAYAC is what an IT and web company looks like when it is given the freedom to play. Our name is based on the initials of our three directors: KAihata, YAnagisawa, and C(k)uba. And it fits us because a kayak is a nimble and fun little boat that needs a strong, hardworking crew to navigate it, just like our company.

Investment focus

Music, Content, Wearables
Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Number Nine — Number Nine is a digital distribution agency business, EC business,tax return agency business,manga production business and media mix business.
VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
Bike Startup — Bike Startup offers service that diverts idle space, development, and operation of PEDALRest, and other bicycle-related business.

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.

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 is a financial company offering personal banking services.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
CamGraPhIC — Our platform supports the ever-increasing data traffic demand with high-performing and low-power consumption electro-optical engines.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.

Paul Rosenberg is currently the CEO of Def Jam Recordings.

Investment focus

Music, Apps, Logistics
Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cargo — Ara Screens is a digital out of home network solution provider, DOOH smart signage operator, and the world's leading car-top and in-car advertising placement provider for Rideshare & Taxi.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.

Saito Taro - Outside Directors @ for Startups

Investment focus

B2C, Music, Consulting
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
onlyone travel — Only One is a travel agency specialized in Latin American destinations run by Japanese managers.

Satoshi Aoyagi

Investment focus

B2C, Music, Consulting
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
Takumi Giken Kogyo — Takumi Giken Kogyo is a price technology developer to help parts manufacturers quickly identify acceptable product prices. Takumi Giken Kogyo assists in estimate calculation and product function through AI drawing search and repeat project determination function, enabling manufacturers with flexible customization of product functions based oncustomer requirements.

Bricks Fund Tokyo collaborates to establish new enterprises that address social challenges and alter industrial systems.

Investment focus

Music, Video, Content Creators
Series B, Series A, Series C
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.
MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.

iFund is an investment and financial service firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Content
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
YUIMEX — YUIMEX specializes in copyright, digital content, animation, and network entertainment services.
Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.

Resona Bank provides various banking products and services for individual and corporate customers in Japan.

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.

Next One for the World.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
Geofra — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.

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.

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.

Official corporate site of Uzabase, Inc., the provider of SPEEDA, NewsPicks and other services

Investment focus

Content, Information Services, SNS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Arches — Arches is a premier global expert network with an APAC focus. We connect you to custom-recruited specialists across Asia. Fast insights for your business.
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”.

Gogin Skyland Next Fund is an early-stage venture funding fund that Gougin funding and Skyland Ventures oversee.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Investment focus

Music, Video, Mobile
Seed
Japan

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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.

MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Japan, India, United States

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Shiprocket — Shiprocket is India's most-used eCommerce logistics and shipping software solution for the best courier services. Avail features like COD (Cash on Delivery), prepaid delivery, automated shipping, etc.
InsuranceDekho — Insurance - Buy health & vehicle insurance policy online. Compare car, bike & health insurance plans from top insurers. Get upto 75%* OFF.
Zenith Energy — Zenith Energy specialises in tailored remote off-grid power generation and urban microgrids, with a focus on renewable energy generation.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Japan, Israel

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Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
Lightsynq — Lightsynq is developing universal optical quantum interconnects that bridge the gap to large-scale quantum computers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Music, Digital Media, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Germany

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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

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.

Investment focus

Music, Web Apps, Blockchain
Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore

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Bunzz — Comprehensive dev tool for Smart Contracts, AI based audit, and analysis.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund is a fund to invest in startups to create new entertainment and build its IP Metaverse.

Investment focus

Video Games, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
United States, Japan, Israel

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Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
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.