Top 5 Photography Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Photography startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Photography Angel Investors in Japan in May 2025
Investor | Photography Japan investments |
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Ryosuke Matsumoto | 1 |
Kenji Endo | 1 |
Seiji Kurokoshi | 1 |
Kazuhiro Ishikura | 1 |
Kazuhiko Ishikura | 1 |
Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.
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Investment focus
- Art, Reservations, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
- TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems
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Investment focus
- Apps, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Pixta — Pixta company’s goal is to assist graphic professionals in the transfer, tracking and collaboration of digital media over the Internet. We build Internet “Cloud”-based applications that provide a great customer experience, easy-to-use, secure and reliable.To assist our customers in transferring large-files simply and securely across the Internet,we built PixtaSynapse. Using PixtaSynapse, the sender needs only a web-browser to send files. To make the service super-reliable, we built the servers and core-technology for our custom file processing pipeline. We then located those key-servers one-hop off the Internet backbone to reduce latency. Our core file pipeline is physically located in a secure Class A co-location facility. We have setup secure, automated, off-site backups to safeguard our customers data in case of a catastrophic emergency.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Travel, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
- Ezay — Ezay provides a mobile platform that connects rural 'mom-and-pop' shops with B2B market place and provide financial and logistics services.
- CURBON — CURBON is a Japan's largest photo learning site for C2C,Provides learning content such as video lectures and photography classes, Lightroom presets, etc.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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