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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Japan in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Music Japan investments
East Ventures	4
ANOBAKA	3
UNITED	3
Genesia Ventures	3
SMBC Venture Capital	2
Ceres	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
FIREBUG	2
iSGS Investment Works	2
mixi	2
Chiba Dojo	2
NES Venture Capital	2
Kotaro Chiba	2
Kazuomi Kaneto	2
MIRAISE	2
Z Venture Capital	2
W ventures	1
KAYAC	1
Sony Innovation Fund	1
GREE	1
Uzabase	1
Yamaguchi Capital	1
Gumi Ventures	1
Resona Bank	1
Fuji Pacific Music	1
Carbide Ventures	1
XTech Ventures	1
OPT Ventures	1
ANRI	1
TLM	1
The Seed Capital	1
Masanori Sugiyama	1
Shoko Chukin Bank	1
Tatsuo Sakamoto	1
Japan Finance	1
Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings	1
NES Investment	1
DRG FUND	1
Takuma Kudo	1
Bricks Fund Tokyo	1
NOW Japan	1
Towa Pharmaceutical	1
Sony Music Entertainment	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
KDDI Open Innovation Fund	1
Takeshi Natsuno	1
Masaru Sunagawa	1
Salesforce Ventures	1
Candee	1
San-in Godo Bank	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

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
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Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
Omnis — OMNIS
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

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

Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.

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, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
Nehan — Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses.
Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

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.

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

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.

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 — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

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

Gameramp — Scale your game faster with GameRamp. Tools and Capital in one SDK
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.
Million Production — Million Production is a VTuber agency. It creates new entertainment for the next generation through the creation of IP (intellectual property such as characters) and the development of diversified content.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Univearth — Univearth is a tech company that specializes in developing a logistics digital transformation platform to modernize the logistics industry.
FormX — FormX is a technology company that provides cutting-edge AI software and services for automated document data extraction.
Paradigm AI — Paradigm AI is an entertainment firm that produces songs and creates virtual human idols using generative AI.

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Web3, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
OMO — OMO is a hybrid online and offline used goods buying support service,

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.

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.

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

GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile with GIG-A. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

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, Software, Content
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

mahocast — Mahocast operates a comprehensive business platform that supports every stage of an artist’s journey—from initial planning and content production to ongoing management and promotion.
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.

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.
Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology 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 A, Series B
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
Phaidra — Phaidra provides artificial intelligence agents for AI factories that orchestrate the cooling, power and workload management systems to maximize tokens produced per watt.
PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.

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.

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”.

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Manufacturing, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
NutmegLabs — NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
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Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.

OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Task Management
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
nanameue, Inc. — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

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

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

Software, Information Technology, Robotics
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

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

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.

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Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

AuB — AuB is an intestinal microflora analysis that contributes to the athlete's performance improvement and human health maintenance.
Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.

NES Investment is an investment firm based in Japan.

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Oikos Music — Oikos Music is a media company that provides service to support artists by purchasing music rights.

DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

B2C, Music, Drones
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
Swap — Swap is a tech company offering IT services and business consulting, as well as supporting companies and educational institutions.
First Penguins — First Penguins envisions a world in which everyone interested in sports and culture can reach their full potential and fully enjoy themselves.

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.

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

ROMS — ROMS helps solve the problems of an aging society and labor scarcity in an innovative and responsible way by providing user-friendly robotics solutions for the omnichannel. Their focus is to deliver a functional platform that includes robotic stores using AI.
MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
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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.

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

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

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Monogusa — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Counter Culture Company — Counter Culture Company is an online platform that offers K-pop dance classes ranging from beginner to professional levels.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another

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.

After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.

100% invested in enterprise cloud companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

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Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Axion — AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.

Candee is a PR and digital video marketing company that provides marketing services.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Music
Seed, Funding Round
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.
vivito — Vivito provides a shooting location search platform for video production companies and creators.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Consulting
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
Onestruction — Onestruction is an IT firm that offers construction solution development, 3D model and document creation, and operational support services.

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