# ABC Dream Ventures

> ABC Dream Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Content. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Fund size: $265M
- Last fund: Jan 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://adventures.co.jp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABCDREAMVENTURES

ABC Dream Ventures is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Information Technology and Content. ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.7M–$43M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $354k–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 15% |
| Content | 3 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 12% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 12% |

68 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 23% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 3 | 12% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 22 | 85% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akihiro Ueda | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akihiro-ueda-2 |
| Naoto Obama | President and Representative Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naoto-obama |
| Ryohei Shirai | Venture Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryohei-shirai |
| Goro Ishizaki | President and CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goro-ishizaki |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sally | Sally is a company that turns people-to-people conversations into entertainment. It specializes in developing conversational reasoning games. |  | Seed | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| At Forest | At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased. |  | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| TYPICA | TYPICA is a marketplace where you can directly trade unique and high quality green coffee beans in units of one bag. | $10.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| IKOU | IKOU is an inclusive brand for babies and children that creates products valued by all users. The company's featured products include portable seats, bibs, and children's clothing products along with online services. | $353.8K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Petokoto | Petokoto is a pet wellness company that creates and sells fresh food, runs pet media, and keeps pets happy. It is suitable to become an information source that combines accuracy, completeness, and updateability by utilizing the collective knowledge of experts both inside and outside the company and demonstrating their respective expertise. Thecompany aims to develop a world where pets can be loved as family members. | $4.4M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Rei-Frontier | Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Sentient.io | Sentient.io AI models, microservices, and datasets are readily available through APIs on the Sentient AI & Data Cloud Platform for easy discovery. They utilize curated public and private datasets and pre-trained and industry-proven models. The company provides unique benefits to software developers looking to create AI-enabled applications orAI-driven services by embedding AI capabilities into their applications and for enterprises by making scalability a core and enabling easy extension to existing applications. |  | Series B | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| BluAge | BluAge is a company that specializes in developing room search application. It has developed Canary, a service that provides fast and easy room search. BluAge was founded on April 16, 2018. | $10.7M | Series B | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| JX Press | The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters | $22M | Series C | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Chikaku | Chikaku is a service that automatically sends photos and videos taken with smartphones to your home TV without any hassle. | $4.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does ABC Dream Ventures invest in?

ABC Dream Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Content and Software startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ABC Dream Ventures's check size?

ABC Dream Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$43M at Series A and $354k–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ABC Dream Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact ABC Dream Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at ABC Dream Ventures?

The team at ABC Dream Ventures includes Akihiro Ueda (General Partner), Naoto Obama (President and Representative Director) and Ryohei Shirai (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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