# Accord Ventures

> Accord Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Internet and Software. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last fund: Dec 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://accordventures.co.jp

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $775k–$21M |
| Series A | $3M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 11 | 24% |
| Software | 8 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 13% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 31% |
| Series A | 13 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 18% |
| Series B | 3 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 23 | 51% |
| Malaysia | 4 | 9% |
| United States | 4 | 9% |
| Taiwan | 2 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fumihiko Ishimaru | Founder and CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fumihiko-ishimaru-2cc5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opt Fit | Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services. | $3.2M | Series B | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Thinkfree | Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Mawari | Mawari is a pioneer in cloud rendering and streaming technology for interactive AR experiences. Mawari provides an AR-focused streaming SDK that renders 3D content in the cloud and delivers it efficiently to devices. Core to the AR Streaming SDK is Mawari’s unique, patent-pending compression technology that minimizes the weight of 3D content andenables real-time rendering and streaming to smartphones and AR glasses. | $10.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Openrec | Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business. | $340.2M |  | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Openrec | Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business. | $15.4M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Yondemy | Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books. | $880.7K | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Opt Fit | Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services. | $1.3M | Series A | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Involve Asia Technologies | Involve Asia is a performance marketing tech company working to redefine the marketing space to allow wider access for publishers.It provides the infrastructure, publisher access, resource management, and partnership integrations needed by tracking and identifying audience insights to understand affiliate’s influence on key metrics such aslifetime value, average basket size, and gross merchandise volume and work with premium mainstream partners who have affiliate integrations with the company. Brands can tap into their massive each and leverage on their engaged audiences to drive both branding and sales simultaneously. Brands can also identify affiliates to discover the full potential of relationships and benefits of affiliate partnerships through its affiliate database ecosystem. Involves's platform manages affiliate relationships by centralizing commission payouts to affiliates instantaneously.Jimmy How established the Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur-located company in 2014. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 17, 2023 |  |
| Mawari | Mawari is a pioneer in cloud rendering and streaming technology for interactive AR experiences. Mawari provides an AR-focused streaming SDK that renders 3D content in the cloud and delivers it efficiently to devices. Core to the AR Streaming SDK is Mawari’s unique, patent-pending compression technology that minimizes the weight of 3D content andenables real-time rendering and streaming to smartphones and AR glasses. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Galapagos | Galapagos offers a service that uses artificial intelligence to create and refine advertising visuals, under a product called AIR Design. The company also provides development and management for smartphone applications. | $2M | Seed | May 21, 2020 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Accord Ventures invest in?

Accord Ventures invests primarily in Internet, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Accord Ventures's check size?

Accord Ventures typically joins rounds of $775k–$21M at Seed and $3M–$45M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Accord Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Accord Ventures?

Public channels for Accord Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Accord Ventures?

The team at Accord Ventures includes Fumihiko Ishimaru (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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