# 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund

> 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

31Ventures Global Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence. 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| Travel | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| Content | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airporter | Airporter is a tourism agency that offers luggage and baggage delivery services for customers and travelers. The service allows you to complete all transactions from order to settlement on your smartphone. The company plans to strengthen business partnerships with hotels and delivery systems in the future.In June 2019, the company announced thelaunch of tens of millions of fundraising, including BASE Partners, Monex Ventures and Mizuho Capital. The company was founded on November 1, 2017, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $1.9M | Series B | Apr 27, 2020 |  |
| atta | atta (formerlyWithTravel) is an accommodation metasearch service that recommends hundreds of hotels, apartments, and vacation rentals for your next holiday.We cover hotels and apartments in most holiday destination under one-site. Just search by entering your destination, dates, and number of guests. Sort your search results by price range, typeof accommodations, or amenities.WithTravel App is currently available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. We cover major cities in Japan at the moment and will keep populating more accommodations for your discovery. | $3M | Series A | Jan 08, 2020 |  |
| Loom Systems | Loom Systems’ patent-pending AIOps solution predicts and solves IT incidents in enterprises undergoing a digital transformation or cloud migration. It predicts IT issues before they impact customers and enrich alerts with insights and resolutions in plain English. This not only keeps operations running smoothly and improves business productivity,but also alleviates the tedium of reading logs and frees up time for operations to concentrate on higher-value IT tasks.Loom Systems was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $10M |  | Nov 21, 2019 |  |
| ViSenze | ViSenze is an artificial intelligence startup that develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.Using R&D in machine learning and computer vision technology, ViSenze can recommend visually similar items to online shoppers, either on e-commerce platforms whenthey browse or search by uploading a picture or on content publishers platforms like social media and video networks.The company is a spin-off from NExT, a leading research center jointly established between National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University of China. ViSenze is invested by Rakuten Ventures, Walden International and UOB Venture Management. | $20M | Series C | Feb 19, 2019 |  |
| SCADAfence | SCADAfence is the global technology leader in OT & IoT cybersecurity. SCADAfence offers a full suite of industrial cybersecurity products that provides full coverage of large-scale networks, offering best-in-class network monitoring, asset discovery, governance, remote access, and IoT device security. A Gartner “Cool Vendor” in 2020, SCADAfencedelivers proactive security and visibility to some of the world's most complex OT networks, including the largest manufacturing facility in Europe. SCADAfence enables organizations in critical infrastructure, manufacturing and building management industries to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently. To learn more, go to www.scadafence.com | $10M | Series A | Nov 21, 2017 |  |
| Loom Systems | Loom Systems’ patent-pending AIOps solution predicts and solves IT incidents in enterprises undergoing a digital transformation or cloud migration. It predicts IT issues before they impact customers and enrich alerts with insights and resolutions in plain English. This not only keeps operations running smoothly and improves business productivity,but also alleviates the tedium of reading logs and frees up time for operations to concentrate on higher-value IT tasks.Loom Systems was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $6M | Series A | May 03, 2017 |  |
| Peerspace | Peerspace operates a marketplace for companies and individuals looking for short-term workspaces. Its platform enables users to search, message, and book various spaces that include corporate and private event spaces, photo studios, artist spaces, conference rooms, industrial-chic event spaces, daylight photo studios, video sound stage andphotography studios, production studios, converted warehouses, train stations, photo and video spaces, sports car museum event spaces, and courtyards. Peerspace serves customers in San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Austin, and Chicago. Matt Bendett and Rony Chammas founded the company, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $11M | Series A | Mar 06, 2017 |  |
| Material Concept | Material Concept contributes for the development of a sustainable economy in harmony with global environment through innovative materials. | $49.6M |  | Oct 01, 2016 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mitsui Fudosan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-fudosan) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Meron Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meron-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Regional Revitalization Solution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund invest in?

31Ventures Global Innovation Fund invests primarily in E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence and Travel startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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