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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Japan (August 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
D4V
VC Fund
7 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $876k–$89M
Ceres
VC Fund
7 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $1.4M–$120M
East Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $473k–$35M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $317k–$57M
JAFCO
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$184M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$184M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $458k–$30M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Tanzania Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology $3.1M–$184M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $684k–$71M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $875k–$78M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $565k–$71M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $740k–$184M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.3M–$142M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $558k–$17M
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology $6.1M–$3B
ANRI
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Medical, Health Care $413k–$41M
Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$53M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $691k–$29M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$198M
AG Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
Saison Capital
VC Fund
3 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $1.5M–$33M
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $102k–$59M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
2 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Internet $679k–$122M
Anthemis
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$60M
IDEO
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $1M–$200M
Kobe University Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Medical, Sales, Health Care $644k–$7.8M
DeNA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.2M–$142M
SBI Group
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $2.8M–$142M
Oyster Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $150k–$45M
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
Fathom Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Norway, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$70M
cFund
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $500k–$135M
Asteria
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Finance, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Cherubic Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Taiwan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $220k–$27M
Kyokuto Securities
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.3M–$170M
Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Italy Seed, Angel Health Care, Medical, Software $208k–$2.7M
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, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$269M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $330k–$75M
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 $2.1M–$81M
KDDI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $2.8M–$638M
Spiral Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $768k–$78M
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
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Payments startups, 7 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
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $876k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M 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.
  • Free Standard — Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry.
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 7 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:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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: 522
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
  • 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.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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: 313
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$17M; Series A $2.4M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4B in 2021

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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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
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

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.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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: 584
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • 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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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$30M; Series A $1.5M–$30M
  • 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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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • 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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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:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Series A $5.1M–$142M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • 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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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 4 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: 349
  • Round size: Seed $684k–$21M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $4.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SHIFT — Shift.com of San Francisco CA serving Oakland is one of the best pre-owned dealerships in CA. Call Sales <span class='callNowClass'>855-744-3873</span>
  • Uncover Truth — UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$21M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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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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: 264
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
  • Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced 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.
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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: 105
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$27M; Series A $3.5M–$99M; Series B $7.6M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021

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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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 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: 386
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • 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.
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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
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $558k–$17M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M 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

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: 324
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $107M–$3B; Debt Financing $6.1M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Triorb — The corporate website of TriOrb Inc., revolutionizing production lines with our ball-driven omnidirectional mobility platform.
  • SoftBank — SoftBank Group Corp. (Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son) Corporate and IR site provides company information such as our company profile, an overview of the company and Group companies, as well as IR and CSR.
  • Waypoint Leasing Services — Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational backgroundtranslates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 269
  • Round size: Seed $413k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Payments startups

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: 209
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$50M; Series B $6.9M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $185M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
  • 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $691k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

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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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: 576
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B 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.
  • WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
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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:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $1.9M–$57M
  • 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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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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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–$14M; Series A $102k–$47M; Series B $10M–$59M
  • 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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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: 219
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Skild AI — Building general purpose robotic intelligence
  • AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
  • Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $679k–$8M; Series A $1.1M–$103M; Series B $6.5M–$122M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Imiron — Imiron the process and tools used for modeling mathematical behavior in order to comprehend its fundamentals.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

digitally native finance

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
  • Xapix — When it comes to scaling and aggregating sellers on digital marketplaces what matters most is speed. With Xapix you automate the integration and governance processes and significantly speed up your deal execution.
  • Disclosure Facts — Prevent FTC disclosure risk and ad disputes with a provable system of record for creator and influencer ad disclosures.
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IDEO
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm. Some of their clients include Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Microsoft , Nokia , Intel, Eli Lilly, Samsung , and Steelcase.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$200M; Series A $1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • LifeScore — LifeScore is the generative music platform embracing AI for the benefit of artists. We provide high quality, endlessly varying, commercializable streams of music that respond to listener input.
  • EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
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Kobe University Capital
VC Fund · Kobe, Kyoto, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Kobe University Capital is create new indstry academia cllabration and technology transfer models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Sales, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Series A $644k–$7.6M; Series B $5.7M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • 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.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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SBI Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$142M; Series B $7M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gauntlet — Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
  • DriveWealth — DriveWealth, the global fintech investment rail and pioneer of fractional equities trading, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hands. We believe the future is fractional, transactional, and mobile. Every mobile device should bea gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s consultative support and cloud based, modern technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth.
  • NOT A HOTEL — NOT A HOTEL develops a vacation-home ownership and hospitality platform that enables customers to purchase usage rights to architect-designed homes and access a network of properties through a shared ownership model. The company offers vacation residences that can be purchased in increments based on annual usage, with ownership providing recurringaccess to the selected property and reciprocal use of other participating NOT A HOTEL properties. Its platform combines real estate ownership, hospitality operations, property management, reservations, concierge services, and digital tools that allow owners to manage stays, check in, and access services through a mobile application. NOT A HOTEL also provides hotel-style accommodation to guests and manages properties on behalf of owners, including maintenance, cleaning, and operational services. The company collaborates with architects, designers, and other creators to develop individually designed residences and is expanding its hospitality offering through additional properties and hotel brands.
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Oyster Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Capital for extraordinary founders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Series A $4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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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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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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: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $30M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
  • Camino — Building permitting and licensing software designed to be user-friendly. Made for government agencies in North America.
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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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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: Finance, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Tech Bureau — Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
  • 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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Cherubic Ventures
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Angel $220k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wondera — Wondera is a developer of Web3-based social entertainment software designed to reward users for singing and other creative performances. The platform allows users to create personalized AI singers, participate in karaoke, record music, and contribute to the training of artificial intelligence models—all free of charge. By integrating user-generatedcontent with advanced AI technologies, Wondera enables individuals to express their creativity, develop their talents, and engage in an interactive, rewards-driven entertainment experience.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
  • Lima Technology — Lima Technology is an insurance intermediary mobile marketing and office management platform. Lima Technology develops an intelligent hub in the insurance supply chain and delivers targeted solutions for insurance sales agencies. It provides innovative and reliable technical support for insurance sales organizations of different sizes, based oncloud computing and big data. It also integrates the mobile application services needed by the exhibition industry to enhance operation efficiency and develops an efficient self-service sales experience.Lima Technology promotes the transformation of insurance sales agencies to digitalization and intelligence, and maintains the vitality of development, through its intelligent business management platform.Lima Technology is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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Kyokuto Securities
VC Fund · Kayabacho, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

Kyokuto Securities is a Japanese financial company focusing on securities dealing and securities brokerage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1.5M–$41M; Series B $5.2M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
  • Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $208k–$2.7M; Angel $400k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
  • HealthMe — HealthMe is a marketplace platform that allows patients to shop for healthcare like they shop for any other product. They provide prepayment of packages, which streamlines office workflow, decreases no-shows, and enhances patient communications.
  • RealSeq Biosciences — We're discovering new biomarkers to advance next-generation diagnostics that provide deeper insights and improve more lives.
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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, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B 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.
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups

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
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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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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: 158
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Retrofit — Retrofit provides personalized, holistic weight management solutions that transform lives and workplaces. Diabetes prevention & metabolic syndrome programs.
  • 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.
  • ProducePay — Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providingunprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Japan Payments startups, 31 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: 183
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $6.6M–$33M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022

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, 54 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: 400
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$9.8M; Series A $9.3M–$33M; Series B $25M–$81M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% 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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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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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: 108
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$9.7M; Series A $1.1M–$78M; Series B $5.7M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B 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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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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Payments VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 107 deals from 179 investors.

179
investors
in Japan Payments startups
107
deals
in Japan Payments startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Payments startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
15%
Debt Financing
most common funding stage

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