Top 50 Music VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 2026)

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• WAKA —
• Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
• Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.

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• PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
• Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
• AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.

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• Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
• FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
• Bioma — Media Desa Terkini

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• Final Aim — Final Aim has been driving the global adoption of blockchain and smart contracts technologies in industrial design and manufacturing. In November 2021, the company announced the beta version of its blockchain platform, “Final Chain.” In April 2022, the company established its headquarters in the United States. In September of the same year, FinalAim was accepted into “Berkeley SkyDeck,” a world-renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator. In February 2023, it was also chosen as “The Most Likely to Become the Next Unicorn” within the Berkely SkyDeck program. In June 2023, the company won the “Japan-US Innovation Awards – Innovation Showcase,” a co-program by the Japan Society of Northern California and the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center.
• Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
• 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.

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• AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
• Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
• Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.

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• Cruz Foam — Cruz Foam offers certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions. Let us help you transition to compostable foam packaging solutions, today.
• what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
• Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment

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• 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.

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• GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile with GIG-A. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
• Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
• Packative — Platform to design and order custom packaging online

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• Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
• Varytex — Varytex is an herbal medicine tech company that offers diagnostic support software.
• Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology

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• Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
• AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
• TASIMOVF — TASIMOVF was created by leaders in the blockchain and AI industry to break barriers between the industries that should be symbiotic. After a raise between 20+ companies $TAF has $770,000 to allocate to our first hackathon on Virtuals

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• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
• Inter Holding — 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.

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• Clouted — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.
• ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
• Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

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• Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
• Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.

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• Yuimedi — Yuimedi acquires, investigate, analyze medical data and provides accurate solutions.
• Solafune — Solafune is a data science competition platform that leverage satellite and geospatial data.
• Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.

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• IVRy — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
• Free Standard —
• Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.

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• Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
• Any Style —
• Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.

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• Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
• SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
• NanoFrontier — NanoFrontier continues to market technologies that are widely available and incredibly inexpensive.

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• 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.

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• Grafto —
• xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
• Yellow Blue — Yellow Blue develops and operates "Blue One," a next-generation AI translation service designed for professionals.

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• Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
• Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
• Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.

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• Trifa — Trifa is a telecommunications service provider that provides eSIM internet access when traveling internationally.
• Serendip Consulting — Serendip Consulting refers to business portfolio optimization and provision of effective solutions.The Serendip Group operates not only strategic and financial consulting, but also a business company with a focus on manufacturing. Aiming for further growth of the entire group by restructuring the "business portfolio" based on the know-howof nurturing small and medium-sized businesses cultivated over 10 years since its foundation and investment experience, and "modernizing management" by dispatching professional managers You.
• Monozukuri Business Succession Holdings (JMS) — Monozukuri Business Succession Holdings is a specialized corporate investment subsidiary. The platform modernizes mid-sized manufacturing firms facing generational leadership transitions. Strategic institutional banking partnerships protect public shareholder equity from dilution. After acquisition, the firm installs professional management andautomated factory systems. All operational yields consolidate into the parent organization to drive long-term growth.

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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.
• vivito — Vivito provides a shooting location search platform for video production companies and creators.

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• SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
• RightRev — Automate complex revenue recognition with RightRev. Ensure ASC 606 & IFRS 15 compliance, close books faster, and eliminate manual errors. Request a demo today.
• Hubbl Technologies — Hubbl Technologies is a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-driven platform designed to optimize business systems.

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• Cactuz — Cactuz operates in the Edutainment field with the mission of overcoming environmental differences and creating equal opportunities for learning and personal growth, empowering individuals from all backgrounds to reach their full potential through engaging, innovative, and inclusive educational experiences
• Kessaku — Kessaku is an architectural company that provides building renovation, preserving craftsmanship, and sustainable system services.
• DJ Insight — DJ Insight develops and provides Kagami AI, an AI system that visualizes nonverbal information in real-world spaces. The platform analyzes video and audio data from face-to-face settings to extract facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses, reaction changes, concentration levels, excitement, and agreement levels. It generates analysis reports andconsulting that provide actionable insights for improving operations in beauty salons, education, corporate training, and events. The company supports improvements in face-to-face interactions by generating data from real-world spaces that previously relied on intuition and experience.

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• EventHub — EventHub is an event technology company on a mission to connect people. Since their inception they have provided event apps and communication tools to a wide variety of events, from conferences, exhibitions, symposiums to music festivals. Their main product "EventHub" helps event organizers create the best networking experience for theirattendees, exhibitors and sponsors.
• Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
• Baseconnect — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.

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• Vivoo — Get personalized wellness insights with Vivoo's innovative, science-backed products. Understand your body's needs and take control of your body. Shop now!
• VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
• Atmo Biosciences — Atmo is a clinical stage digital health business focussed on empowering researchers, clinicians and patients with objective real-time insights into gut health and microbiome function. Atmo addresses the unmet clinical need to monitor microbiome function, allowing better diagnosis and management of personalised therapies for gastrointestinaldisorders, resulting in improved gut health and wellness. The company is underpinned by a world-first ingestible gas-sensing capsule + cloud platform, which continuously measures clinically important gaseous biomarkers during transit through the gut and transmits the data wirelessly to the cloud for aggregation and analysis, to determine gut health or dysfunction, resulting in earlier relief of symptoms through personalised therapeutic approaches.

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• Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
• Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
• Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.

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• Clenera — Clenera is a privately-held renewable energy company acquires, develops, builds and manages utility-scale solar farms and energy storage facilities. Clēnera provides reliable, affordable energy systems and helps its utility partners become clean energy leaders in their communities.
• Vena Energy — Vena Group delivers renewable energy, battery, and hydrogen solutions across Asia-Pacific. Explore our green innovations driving the low-carbon transition today
• Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.

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• Elaly — Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
• YUIMEX — YUIMEX specializes in copyright, digital content, animation, and network entertainment services.

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• bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
• YStory — YStory is a digital health firm that uses AI and medical science to improve women's health during menopause.
• Sage Haven — Sage Haven develops an AI-moderated messaging and calling app designed for children in their early years online. The app issues children a dedicated Sage Haven number and routes messaging and voice calls through its platform while allowing contacts to use services like iMessage or Google Messages. Parents create and verify accounts, approve eachcontact, and supervise conversations from their own phones with alerts, recaps, and safety insights. The service uses automated content moderation to block harmful or inappropriate messages, links, images, and videos before they are sent and to guide children toward safer communication practices. It supports Wi-Fi and cellular use on iOS devices, with tools aimed at reducing exposure to online bullying, spam, and addictive usage patterns. Sage Haven operates as a public benefit corporation balancing commercial activity with a mission to improve children’s mental health and well-being.

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• ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
• Shizuku AI — Shizuku is an open-source Android app that enables other apps to access elevated system APIs without requiring full root access on your device. It achieves this by running a background service launched via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or wireless debugging on Android 11+, granting limited privileged permissions safely.
• Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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• 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.

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• Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
• Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
• FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.

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• HJ — HJ provides media, marketing and sales promotion services for teens.
• SAGOJO — SAGOJO is a planning and operation of the amazing traveler recruiting site "SAGOJO" and production, direction, and editing of accompanying content.
• Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.

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• 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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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
• Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
• Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.

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• Loom.ai — Loom.ai is enabling a new era of virtual communication through the creation, animation and sharing of personalized, 3D avatars. Based in San Francisco, and an alumni of the Y Combinator Fellowship, the Academy Award-winning team has created a best-in-class solution powered by deep learning, computer vision and visual effects. In just seconds,Loom.ai can take a single photograph and transform it into a fully representative, 3D avatar as personalized as the individual by recognizing the many nuances that make each face unique. Animatable and expressive in real-time, these avatars can be used to power current and future applications in mobile messaging, entertainment, AR/VR, e-commerce, video conferencing, broadcasting and more. For more information, visit www.loom.aiLoom.ai has received funding from DHVC, Dentsu Ventures, Zach Coelius’ AngelList syndicate, GREE VR Capital, Presence Capital and Anorak Ventures.
• Folio — FOLIO is a financial Instruments Business Operator .
• Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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

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• Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
• ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
• Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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• 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.

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• Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
• Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
• Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.

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• Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
• Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
• VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.

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• BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
• Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
• Base Food — Base Food produces high-quality, flavorful staple food products that are nutritionally-balanced and convenient.

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

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• Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
• Kimitona — Kimitona is the developer and operator of the AI ​​fortune-telling service "Uratch,".
• Livetoon — Livetoon creates intellectual property characters to access various content artificial intelligence.