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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$31M
Ceres
VC Fund
8 Japan, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $330k–$120M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$52M
D4V
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $443k–$18M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$20M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$53M
JAFCO
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$71M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $574k–$42M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $1.9M–$62M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $667k–$32M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, FinTech $318k–$17M
ANRI
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $275k–$34M
NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Tanzania Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology $452k–$184M
Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.9M–$52M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
AG Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $462k–$28M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$68M
Oyster Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Software, Financial Services $150k–$101M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $275k–$5M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $457k–$28M
Saison Capital
VC Fund
3 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $1.5M–$33M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $468k–$184M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $480k–$11M
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology $3.4M–$3B
Mizuho Bank
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software $1.3M–$5.6B
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $712k–$85M
KDDI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $2.8M–$638M
Daishi Hokuetsu Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Food and Beverage, Apps, Payments $6.2M–$6.2M
PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources $953k–$142M
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, India Debt Financing, Series A Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy $1M–$2B
Primal Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Internet $415k–$18M
Money Forward
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Financial Services, Accounting $944k–$22M
Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, India Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $100k–$57M
Canal Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Information Technology, Apps, Software $537k–$21M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
2 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
cFund
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $500k–$135M
Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $449k–$184M
500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Software, Task Management $91k–$30M
ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $2.2M–$47M
Mizuho Financial Group
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Series A, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Corporate Round Banking, FinTech, Payments
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $733k–$47M
Fathom Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Norway, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$70M
Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$7M
Asteria
VC Fund
2 Japan Series B, Seed, Series A FinTech, Finance, Blockchain $11M–$15M
Social Leverage
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$50M
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$80M
Abstract
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$81M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $768k–$63M
Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, South Korea Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $440k–$85M
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 632
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $464k–$4.5M; Series A $1.4M–$120M; Venture - Series Unknown $330k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 641
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$52M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $443k–$7M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $823k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $46M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Payments startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 362
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$10M; Series A $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Payments startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 776
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$31M; Series B $3.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NBT — NBT specializes in the development of wind farms in the field of renewable energy in emerging markets.
  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • 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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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$71M; Series B $5.5M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 5 investments in Japan Payments startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $574k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$31M; Series B $2.8M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
  • Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Payments startups

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$44M; Series B $4.5M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $667k–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$32M; Series B $4.7M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$5.7M; Series A $1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $473k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 306
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $731k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HANAMII — HANAMII is a creative and marketing company that offers digital marketing, branding, business support services, and social media marketing.
  • Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
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NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Payments startups

NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $452k–$184M; Venture - Series Unknown $543k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
  • Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$25M; Series B $6.9M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • 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.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$28M; Series A $921k–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $547k–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
  • Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 656
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Oyster Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

Capital for extraordinary founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4.2M; Series A $4M–$45M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.4M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
  • Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
  • New Social Theory — New Social Theory is a FinTech company focused on empowering the creator economy. We believe that the future of content and commerce lies in fostering deeper connections between creators and their passionate fan bases.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $365k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
  • 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.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Saison Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across emerging markets. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $55M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Mylapay — Mylapay, a rising fintech startup, was established in 2019 and incorporates as 'Mindeed Technologies and Services Pvt Ltd' by a dynamic team of co-founders (Ex Hitachi and Worldline) who bring over 50 years of collective experience in the payment domain. Mylapay has been officially registered with the DIPP under the Startup Indiainitiative, signifying its commitment to pioneering financial technology solutions. We specialize in payment enablement, crafting cutting-edge payment solutions to simplify the complete card payment cycle. Mylapay aimed at redefining the payment processing experience with its core product line up; (3DS-Authentication: The linchpin of online commerce, turning payment security into an art form), (Authorization Switch: Your go-to solution for speed and security, ensuring high success rates with fast and safe approvals), (IntelleEngine-Transaction Processing System: An all-in-one platform that manages the post authorization transaction processing end-to-end) Our aim is to transform Mylapay into a holistic tech ecosystem for all your acquiring payment processing needs. We offer cloud-based solutions that equip Payment Aggregators and Banks across the globe with complete payment processing capabilities. With us, you get a one-stop-shop for all your payment solutions, making transaction experiences smoother than ever!
  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • AIsa — AIsa is the capability layer for the Agentic Economy. Everything AI agents need to reason, act, and transact. Pay per call.
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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $468k–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$41M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$3.7M; Series A $1.1M–$7.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $549k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups, 72 in the past 12 months

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 327
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $107M–$3B; Debt Financing $3.4M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Squadron Energy — Squadron Energy is an Australian resources company focused on projects in natural resources and renewable energy.
  • Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
  • AMPIN Energy Transition — AMPIN Energy Transition (Formerly Amp Energy India) is a leading renewable energy company driving India's green future with solar, wind, and storage solutions.
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Mizuho Bank
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 90 in the past 12 months

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $150M–$5.6B; Debt Financing $1.3M–$925M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Polyuse — Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology".
  • Bank of India — Bank of India is a Nationalized bank with a presence in all the major trade centers of the world.
  • 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.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 526
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$52M; Series B $2.4M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $712k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
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KDDI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $8.5M–$209M; Series B $2.8M–$638M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Bounce — Luggage Storage Near Me 24/7 - Store your baggage in 32,000+ worldwide locations. Bounce is the BEST luggage storage app for finding and booking left luggage & lockers near you!
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Daishi Hokuetsu Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Daishi Hokuetsu Capital Partners is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $6.2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • Matchbox Technologies — Matchbox Technologies is an IT firm that develops an application for flexible recruitment and payment services.
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PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund focuses on start-ups and projects that have machine intelligence, AI-related and robotics technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$7.4M; Series A $2.8M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palplat — Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
  • Datawise — Datawise is a data analytics company that specializes in area marketing strategy using data, information analysis, and AI algorithms.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operatingenvironment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders.The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fidra Energy — Fidra Energy is committed to supporting renewable energy generation through efficient battery energy storage production. Learn more.
  • Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
  • Caliche Development Partners — Caliche Development Partners acquires, develops, and operates subsurface hydrocarbon storage assets and associated pipelines. Caliche Development Partners team brings over 175 years of combined midstream asset development experience, including project finance, facility design, permitting, construction, marketing, and operations.CalicheDevelopment Partners focuses on the development and operation of midstream storage and transportation assets needed to meet the changing demands of the global energy landscape.
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Primal Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $415k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of ​​Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Money Forward
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Accounting
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $944k–$21M; Series A $1.6M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sleek — All-in-one business finances and admin for business owners, SMEs and investors in Singapore. Get started with our 100% online platform.
  • Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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Canal Ventures
VC Fund · Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Canal Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm of the Nihon Unisys Group that invests in seed early phase startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $821k–$21M; Series A $963k–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $537k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $47M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • Al Travel — Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM). AI Travel reduces business travel arrangements by up to 90% and simplifies application and reporting operations and significantly cuts operations that do not generate profits in the batch settlement.
  • Qubitcore — Qubitcore is a pioneering startup founded with the mission of commercializing and advancing the research outcomes of the Quantum Information Physics Experimental Unit, focusing on the practical implementation of quantum technologies in computing, communication, and information processing.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Swirl Networks — Buy Swirl.com on DomainEasy. Buy it today!
  • Rize — Rize is an 3D printing company manufacturing full-color multi-material office-friendly industrial 3D printers. It enables sustainable and inclusive innovation to achieve additive at scale. The company's 3D printers, the world’s first hybrid 3D printers, are a breakthrough combining two discrete technologies, material extrusion and materialjetting. This enables a one-touch experience to produce parts that mimic injection-molded parts and the capability to digitally connect to Industry 4.0 technologies, at the lowest total cost of ownership.
  • Legendary Entertainment — LEGENDARY is a global entertainment company with a passion for transportive storytelling across film, television, digital media, virtual reality and comic books. Towering monsters. Inspirational
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cFund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

cFund is an early-stage sector agnostic venture firm in the Blockchain industry anchored by IOG and managed by Wave Digital Assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $500k–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
  • Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
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Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $449k–$854k; Series A $6.2M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
  • Pi Photonics — PiPhotonics develops, manufactures, and sells light pattern-forming LED lighting.
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$7.8M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $91k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
  • GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
  • Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
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ITOCHU Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$32M; Series B $3.6M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Octas — Octas offers brand management, licensing, business development and collaboration services for Japanese creators.
  • Benefuel — Benefuel is commercializing the world’s most advanced, solid catalyst biodiesel refining platform, capable of producing high quality biodiesel from almost any type of feedstock and thereby transforming the old model of large batch, centralized fuel production and fragmented distribution into a new model of localized production and consumption fromthe vast array of renewable, inedible fats and oils available in the global market.
  • Sirius Aviation Capital — A global commercial Aircraft Investment Asset Manager focused on liquid, in-demand mid-life narrowbody aircraft.
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Mizuho Financial Group
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a bank holding company which manages and engages in ancillary operations related to the management of its legally–owned subsidiaries as defined by the Japanese Banking Act. Its activities include streamlining group management functions, creating synergies across various business fields and capabilities, andleveraging the defining strengths and characteristics of the Mizuho group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
  • Zap Energy — Zap Energy's fusion reactor stabilizes plasma using sheared flows rather than magnetic fields. Driving electric current through the flow creates the magnetic field, which confines and compresses the plasma. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma. Zap Energy's reactor is the least expensive, mostcompact, most scalable solution with the shortest path to commercially viable fusion.
  • MARELLI — Be part of innovation of automotive industry co-creating technological solution with an experienced partner as Marelli enpowering automakers.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group primarily conducts commercial banking through the following financial services such as leasing, securities, consumer finance, system development, and data processing. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Axiata — As one of Asia's leading telecommunications groups, Axiata has grown into a Triple Core Business centred on digital telco, businesses and infrastructure.
  • BitFlyer — BitFlyer is a bitcoin exchange and marketplace that enables its customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins.
  • Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $747k–$8.5M; Series A $733k–$47M; Series B $3.7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • 91springboard — Discover premium coworking spaces, private enterprise offices and managed office spaces. Flexible workspaces with modern amenities and exceptional hospitality designed for growing businesses.
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Fathom Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Backing Deep Innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Norway, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$5.4M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $30M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Runhouse — Runhouse is an ML platform that demolishes research, production, and infra silos for ML Engineers, Researchers, and Data Scientists. Runhouse OSS is a unified interface into compute and data infra which is unopinionated, ergonomic, and powerful enough for fast experimentation, full-scale deployment, and everything in between.
  • Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes.  After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind.  It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
  • ConductorOne — Govern workforce access, deploy AI agents, and get work done with C1.
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.9M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.5M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • AccordX — AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
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Asteria
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Infoteria Corporation is a Japanese company that specializes in providing software and related support, consulting, and training.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series B $11M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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Social Leverage
VC Fund · Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Newcase.ai — Connect all facts from records, depositions, and evidence into clear timelines with one intelligence layer. Get case-wide context that uncovers contradictions and highlights key admissions with exact citations.
  • SyntheticFi — Borrow like a hedge fund, at near Fed Funds rate. Floating line or fixed rate loan, all tax deductible. Check out our Bloomberg coverage https://t.co/wCogxB6uIK
  • Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 27 in the past 12 months

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $6.8M–$33M; Series B $8.6M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $83M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
  • Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
  • Faye — Travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 support, instant claims processing and more.
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Abstract
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Abstract is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco with $1.5 billion in assets under management. We are sector-agnostic and invest in seed and early stage companies. Our reputation among founders is built on fierce loyalty, unparalleled connections, and a relentless drive to help them win.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 424
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9.8M; Series A $9M–$33M; Series B $25M–$81M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • June — Transform enterprise system deployment with June. AI-driven implementation for Salesforce, Snowflake, SAP & more. No downtime, faster delivery, full control.
  • Foundation Industries — Foundation Industries provides manufacturing technology and services focused on fast, low-volume, high-mix CNC machining for hard tech companies. The company offers an online portal where engineering teams can upload designs, define specifications, and receive transparent quotes for custom components. Its system supports domestic production runswith turnaround times as short as two days for qualifying orders. Foundation Industries focuses on helping hardware teams move efficiently from design to production by simplifying quoting, ordering, and tracking in one place. The company serves deep tech and physical engineering organizations that need rapid prototyping and small-batch production of precision-machined parts. Its services are intended to reduce lead times, increase predictability, and support the development and launch of complex hardware systems.
  • Foundational Industries — Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products.
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Spiral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Spiral Capital is a venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$9.7M; Series A $1.1M–$63M; Series B $5.7M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • WAKA — WAKA is a studio that produces metaverse games and specializes in contract development for domestic businesses.
  • Mozu — MOZU operates a construction materials procurement platform.
  • AZUL Energy — AZUL Energy is a next-generation energy device that improves air battery performance, develops air battery-related products, and proposes eco-friendly and comfortable new lifestyles. They discovered that a catalyst electrode containing one of these pigments performed better than platinum carbon or existing catalyst electrode materials.
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$7.1M; Series B $3.5M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $440k–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
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Payments VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 115 deals from 191 investors.

191
investors
in Japan Payments startups
115
deals
in Japan Payments startups
$8.5M
median round
in Japan Payments startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
16%
Venture - Series Unknown
most common funding stage

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