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Top 45 Platforms VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Platforms startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Platforms startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Venture United
VC Fund
5 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $774k–$50M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $314k–$91M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $952k–$269M
New Commerce Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Denmark, United States Series A, Seed, Series C Software, Information Technology, Apps $375k–$64M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Consulting $792k–$62M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$52M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$227M
ANRI
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $497k–$78M
W ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Content, Internet $696k–$64M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
SPARX Group
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $11M–$425M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $535k–$51M
Mint
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing $283k–$20M
Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Hardware, Robotics $1M–$35M
BeMap
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series D Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Social Media
BEENEXT
VC Fund
1 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $500k–$50M
OPT Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Content $253k–$89M
Taisei
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Robotics, Drones, Android
Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B $621k–$4.4M
Excite Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Seed E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes $6.2M–$6.2M
Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Mobile, Software, iOS
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$213M
Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Content $790k–$241M
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $892k–$64M
DCM Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Internet, E-Commerce $4.3M–$134M
Intage Group
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Marketing, Health Care, Medical $901k–$9.9M
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $172k–$241M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A Apps, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $645k–$43M
TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Series A Content, Internet, Software $1.9M–$170M
Y&N Brothers
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Marketing, Operating Systems, Unified Communications
Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $3M–$142M
SoftBank Corp.
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Norway Series A, Series B, Secondary Market Software, iOS, Mobile $25M–$80M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $875k–$92M
DONUTS
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B, Series C Art, SNS, iOS
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Information Technology $6.5M–$3B
Hakuhodo
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Thailand Series C, Corporate Round, Seed Content, Media and Entertainment, Farming
Innovation Engine
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Medical
TAISEI
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Android, Robotics, Software
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Belgium Series A, Series B Content, Medical, Task Management
Shinsei Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Series B, Seed Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android $25M–$425M
Dai Nippon Printing
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Corporate Round, Seed Software, Advertising, Health Care $997k–$1.7B
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics $5M–$369M
JAFCO
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.9M–$198M
Yakumi
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence $590k–$4.5M
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 221
  • Round size: Seed $774k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 295
  • Round size: Seed $314k–$18M; Series A $2.7M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — 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.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 553
  • Round size: Series A $952k–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
  • 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.
  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is established to contribute to medical treatment for suffering patients, .
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New Commerce Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms startups, 6 in the past 12 months

New Commerce Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in the commerce field to supports startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$1.5M; Series A $881k–$64M; Series C $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
  • CommerceX Holdings — CommerceX Holdings is a DX infrastructure company group that uses technology to replicate retail growth, drawing on on-site knowledge gained from running its own businesses.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $792k–$62M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $6.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$52M
  • 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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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 375
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$156M; Series B $4.9M–$227M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Any Style
  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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W ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms startups

W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $696k–$23M; Series A $1.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $688M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 553
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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SPARX Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$241M; Series B $25M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.1B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Spaceflux — As satellites become increasingly vital, Spaceflux tackles the growing challenges of orbital congestion and debris that put them at risk. Thanks to our proprietary global network of optical sensors, we provide data-driven space situational awareness services from LEO to Cislunar.
  • Alloyed — Alloyed delivers cutting-edge innovation in materials science, additive manufacturing, and advanced metallurgy. Explore our technologies and career opportunities.
  • UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $10M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Delivered Korea — Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country.
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Mint
VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $283k–$20M; Series A $1.4M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
  • Yellow Blue — Yellow Blue develops and operates "Blue One," a next-generation AI translation service designed for professionals.
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Monozukuri Ventures
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Hardware, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$23M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
  • LENZO
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BeMap
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

BeMap is mobile system integration business which consists of planning, development, and management of the features based on a features infrastructure in Japan. Its business is features software and service for various mobile terminals. Its services provide train information, navigation, IP camera solution, television meta data solution, andplanning the wireless network.The company was founded in 1998.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
  • Arrow Tech — Arrow Tech provides in-store media solutions for chain stores.
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$9M; Series A $2M–$29M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • mewt — Lovable Generated Project
  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • CREST — CREST Capital is a private investment firm that partners with founders, families, and institutions to build, manage, and preserve wealth with discipline, alignment, and foresight.
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$68M; Series A $253k–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
  • Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.
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Taisei
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Comprehensive building maintenance company headquartered in Nagoya city, with offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Hamamatsu and Osaka. They are developing comfort proposal type business activities in various scenes including cleaning, security, facility management and renewal of office buildings, maintenance and parking of hotels, management ofunderground malls, preservation of park plants.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Drones, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yolo Japan — Yolo is a Operation of information media for foreign residents and residents of Japan.Operation of Operation of YOLO BASE, a working inbound facility for foreign residents and residents of Japan Community English conversation service for children Sharing English conversation service that utilizes free time International students, residents /residents and foreign visitors to Japan Market research services
  • Mira Robotics — Mira Robotics is a software based company provide services that can robots in various fields.
  • Blue Innovation — Development of a safe flight management system for unmanned aerial vehicles Solutions for R & D and unmanned aerial vehicles Research and development projects System development business General operations Japan UAS Industry Promotion Council (JUIDA) administrative work (secretariat).
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Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund · Nishi, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Lotte Ventures Japan supports and collaborates with businesses that embrace challenges and strive to build a better society in the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $621k–$1.4M; Series A $2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
  • Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
  • Crisp — CRISP SALAD WORKS offers a focused menu of signature salads and grains made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods on-site.
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Excite Japan
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Excite Japan is a Japan-based company focused on the development of internet businesses in Japan. Starting with operations of a portal site, its business model has grown through being focused on services targeted at women.Excite Japan’s revenue is derived from placed-advertising by companies as a media content portal, internet-connection servicefees, and the provision of paid content to users. It was launched in 1997 and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Shoes
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series B $6.2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Open8 — Open8 is a content technology company that provides of SaaS, API, and MLaaS solutions.
  • RoomClip — RoomClip is a photo-sharing service where users can find inspiration for their home and life.
  • Locondo.jp — Locondo.jp is a Japanese e-commerce site offering a wide variety of apparel and shoes. The company was established in 2010 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Recruit Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Recruit Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルート) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, iOS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudbeds — Cloudbeds is a vertical SaaS business that creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners, operators, and employees. It helps with OTAs, payments, reservations, and reporting so its clients can spend time on their most important job, taking care of their guests. Cloudbeds wasfounded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
  • HackerRank — HackerRank, the Developer Skills Company, leads the technical hiring and upskilling market with over 2,500 customers and a community of over 26 million developers.
  • CleverTap — CleverTap offers blazing fast analytics, powerful real-time segmentation, multi-channel messaging, A/B testing and personalization in one unified solution.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
  • Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Shizuoka Capital
VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Shizuoka Capital Company Limited operates as a venture capital firm. It engages in the acquisition, holding, and, sale of securities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$241M; Series B $790k–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Compass — Compass offering services in the tourism and inbound sector, including accommodation support, optional tour planning and management, kimono rentals, and tourism consulting services
  • Equmenopolis — Equmenopolis is an information services company that specializes in conversational AI agent platforms and application developments.
  • Silva Compass
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$64M; Series A $892k–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $419M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
  • WineBank — "WineBank" is a real-time online wine management and investment solution that we offer. In addition to operating a restaurant, it runs a sales company for food, drink, and other items.
  • LIGHT-RIGHT — LIGHT-RIGHT focused on developing services that help local communities adapt to the challenges of a declining population.
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DCM Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 433
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$41M; Series B $8.5M–$60M; Series C $8.5M–$134M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $780M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
  • Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
  • Mendel.ai — Mendel.ai transforms unstructured EMR data and clinical literature into comprehensive and compliant analytics-ready data. Mendel uses their novel AI aided by clinical experts to streamline global oncology research by organizing real-world data and automating clinical trials. They build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trialprocess, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.
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Intage Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Intage Group is a corporate group that develops information system services in the system solution business and healthcare area. INTAGE Inc. and Market Analysis announce Alliance Agreement to provide Customized Research Services in their respective territories. The company was founded in 1960 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $901k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alice Style — Alice Style is a platform that offers joint development, sharing platform, and company listings services.
  • Switch Media Lab — Switch Media Lab helps to create information services that meet customer needs, approach unknown issues, and provide marketing data to create to-do marketing. Its service to improve the TV commercials that Switch Media can provide involves using the PDCA cycle to improve while looking at detailed performance data. Create a future where everyone caneffortlessly do marketing by utilizing technology to provide unprecedented marketing data.
  • Research and Innovation — Research & Innovation ia a japan based market research company.
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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $172k–$241M; Series B $2.8M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$11M; Series A $868k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WAKA
  • Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
  • Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

TBS Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the media, content, entertainment, and IT sectors. It finances companies engaged in tech companies in sectors like Digital Media, E-commerce, AdTech, and Big Data Analytics. Top investments include iRidge, Fringe 81, Open Eight, Data Section, Piece of Cake. The company has 20 millionyen of assets under management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$142M; Series B $1.9M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $442M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content
  • Pickleball One — Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world.
  • Yoyogi Animation Academy — Yoyogi Animation Academy is a Japanese vocational‑style education company that operates Yoyogi Animation Academy, one of Japan’s largest and oldest specialized schools for animation, manga, voice acting, and game design.The academy offers practical, industry‑oriented programs in fields such as animator training, background art, illustration, manga,voice‑acting (seiyuu), and digital content creation, mainly at campuses in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
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Y&N Brothers
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Y&N Brothers provides video software, music software, commercials, movie and stage planning, and production services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Operating Systems, Unified Communications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrow Tech — Arrow Tech provides in-store media solutions for chain stores.
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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$50M; Series A $3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Toregem BioPharma — Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia. Toregem BioPharma is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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SoftBank Corp.
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

SoftBank is a provider of mobile and fixed-line communication and internet connection services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, iOS, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series B $25M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Latona — IoT/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence
  • TBCASoft — Creating a network of networks - for the largest open mobile payment network and ubiquitous merchant acceptance.
  • AutoStore — AutoStore is an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that harnesses the power of warehouse robots for 24/7 order fulfillment within a cubic layout.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

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: 116
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$92M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Autoro — Autoro is a customer business automation company with web auto robot. Autoro combines browser automation, application programming interface linkage, and machine learning, and Autoro automatically completes tasks. They automate office tasks for businesses, including report preparation, accounting, document preparation, and more.
  • 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.
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DONUTS
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Donuts is developing business in the fields of IT field focusing on SaaS, game, media, and medical. It provides games and web services such as Tokyo 7th Sisters, Motorcycle Tiger, Sengoku Tiger Z, Mix Channel, Haukore, and Job Can. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, SNS, iOS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • FIVE Inc. — FIVE provides a major mobile video ads platform in Japan. Acquired by LINE Corp. in 2017.
  • Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 307
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $91M–$3B; Debt Financing $6.5M–$1.2B
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vena Energy — Vena Group delivers renewable energy, battery, and hydrogen solutions across Asia-Pacific. Explore our green innovations driving the low-carbon transition today
  • Mercuria — A world leading independent energy and commodity group
  • 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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Hakuhodo
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Hakuhodo offers services that include marketing, creative, PR, consulting, activation, business development, media & content, and technology/R&D.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Farming
  • Stage:Series C, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
  • Fermecutes — Fermecutes is a food production firm that specializes in production of edible proteins using natto bacteria and sustainable methods.
  • Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
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Innovation Engine
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
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TAISEI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

TAISEI is a General Construction Contractor and a major International General Contractor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Android, Robotics, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mira Robotics — Mira Robotics is a software based company provide services that can robots in various fields.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
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Shinsei Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Shinsei Capital Partners invested startup companies engaged in life science such as biotech or digital health technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Android
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series B $25M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
  • MiraBiologics — Through the development of next-generation multifunctional biopharmaceuticals (neobiologics) using technology based on a unique new concept , we will realize our mission, grow as a global company, and contribute to human health care. By developing biopharmaceuticals with new modalities using LassoGraft Technology ® as a core technology, we willwork on solving unmet medical needs, satisfying treatment methods in the field of rare diseases, and proposing solutions to expensive medical problems.
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Dai Nippon Printing
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), established in 1876, is a Japanese printing company. Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) operates in two main businesses : Printing and Beverages. In the printing segment, DNP operates in three areas - Information Communications, Lifestyle and Industrial Supplies, and Electronics. DNP is involved in a wide variety of printingprocesses, ranging from magazines through to shadow masks for the production of displays, as well as out-coupling enhancement structures for LCD displays and scattering for display backlights.In the beverages business, DNP operates through Hokkaido Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Health Care
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $997k–$117M; Corporate Round $5M–$1.7B
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RenewCO2 — RenewCO2 is a research company that develops processes for converting CO2 into polymers and chemicals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cranford, New Jersey.
  • XID — XID is a GovTech company that offers digital ID application, secure and convenient login, digital signature, and identity verification.
  • Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$340M; Series B $5M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
  • Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
  • Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms 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: 295
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$170M; Series B $7M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

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  • EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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Yakumi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Platforms startups

Yakumi | 792 followers on LinkedIn. Angel investment and advisory platform for Japan-connected startups (not a fund) | We provide a platform connecting global angel investors with promising startups based in, having connection with, or trying to enter into Japan. We are a group of angel investors (all full-time professionals), including a New York lawyer, an entrepreneur with IPO experience, an engineer-turned-banker, a hedge fund manager, an B2B IT expert, a public service expert and a manage-ment consultant, with decades of combined experience. We have global experience in studying, working and/or investing in many different countries, including Canada, China, Denmark, Dubai, Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, U.S. and U.K.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $590k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playco — Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
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