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Top 20 Photography VC Funds in Japan

A list of 20 VC funds 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 20 Photography VC Funds in Japan

Investor Photography Japan investments
ANOBAKA 2
Seiko Electric 2
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) 2
Mizuho Capital 1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
QTnet 1
Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization 1
Shinsei Bank 1
FGN ABBA Lab 1
Gakken Plus Japan 1
STRIVE 1
Innovation Engine 1
QR Investment 1
SMBC Venture Capital 1
Nippon Venture Capital 1
Darwin Venture Management 1
Showa Leasing 1
Sagin Capital & Consulting 1
SG INCUBATE 1
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ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments 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
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Livetoon — Livetoon creates intellectual property characters to access various content artificial intelligence.
  • Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
Seiko Electric VC Fund · Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
Seiko Electric has contributed to society with the best products and services. They have continued to develop technologies that usher in new eras based on sound management and human resource development. They will work to develop new products and businesses using original information and control technology and contribute to the construction ofenvironmentally friendly, safe, and comfortable social infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 investments in the past 12 months
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryzae — Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes.
  • Creatura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
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.
  • WorkX — WorkX Provides development and operation consulting services for the project introduction service “Pro Connect”.
  • PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 63 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
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.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Content
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
  • Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
QTnet VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
QTnet is a telecommunication and internet service provider.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Software
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Regional Economy Revitalization Support Organization supports small and medium-sized companies.
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Investment focus
  • Photography, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
Shinsei Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Japan, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
  • Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.
FGN ABBA Lab VC Fund · Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan
FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of ​​creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.
Gakken Plus Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Gakken Plus is a publishing business offering a catalog of books and magazines.
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Investment focus
  • Art, EdTech, Robotics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OurPhoto — OurPhoto is a service that matches clients and photographers. Professional and semi-professional shooting is surprisingly high quality and reasonable.
  • MiRaY School — MiRaY School is an Education based company that service Gifte (! Kifte) is a service that offers a learning experience for the future of children and children.
  • GranSky Studios — GranSky Studios makes good stories as well as animations which all ages can enjoy. GranSky Studios brings light of dream and hope to people worldwide through our production.
STRIVE VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
  • Mercado Único — Mercado Único is a B2B platform for the distribution and management of opportunistic sales of Consumer Goods that are close to expiration and slow-moving, connecting suppliers (manufacturers/distributors) to buyers (retailers/distributors) with items that have predictable and immediate use at discounted prices.
Innovation Engine VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Asilla — Asilla develops and provides AI specialized in image and video analysis. Its services, the Vehicle recognition AI, recognizes the manufacturer and model from the image of the vehicle. It also has a censorship service that detects inappropriate images that can not be released, including copyrights and obscene expressionsAsilla was founded in 2015and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
QR Investment VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 8 investments in the past 12 months
QR Investment Operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Pet
  • Series B, Seed, Series E
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryzae — Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 50 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
Darwin Venture Management VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Taiwan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
  • Camlann — We're Camlann Games, an indie game publisher that performs. We back passionate developers, vibrant worlds, and the most unforgettable stories ever told.
Showa Leasing VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Showa Leasing engages in the leasing of machine tools, construction machinery, medical equipment, and commercial equipment. The company was founded on April 2, 1969 and its headquarters are located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Printing, Publishing, Photography
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CAMELOVE — Cameloveis a Camera equipment rental subscription service.
Sagin Capital & Consulting VC Fund · Saga, Saga, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • LIGHTz — LIGHTz delivers a technology transfer and information exchange platform leveraging AI.
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
SG INCUBATE VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
SG Incubation was born as an investment company for the formation of corporate venture capital (CVC), which invests in Kyushu's first startup company.Regardless of the stage of growth, the startup company that will be the investor will first value the “human nature” of the manager, determine whether it is a company that should support thefuture, and provide capital and management back up. The Seibu Gas Group will continue to aim for new business areas.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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