Adways
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Adways is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Media and Entertainment. Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Adways invests in
Stages Adways invests in
Countries Adways invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$21M
- Series A
- $1M–$30M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $944k–$9.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (18%)
- Media and Entertainment 7 (18%)
- Content 6 (16%)
- Internet 6 (16%)
- Marketing 5 (13%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 15 (39%)
- Seed 7 (18%)
- Series A 5 (13%)
- Series B 4 (11%)
- Corporate Round 4 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Die Su
Executive Officer in charge of data business
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Executive Officer in charge of data business | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Haruhisa Okamura
Founder and CEO
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Founder and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matsushima Ryoji
Executive Officer
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Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sang Won Lee
Executive officer of New Business Strategy
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Executive officer of New Business Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shingo Shikano
Senior Executive Officer and Management Strategy
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Senior Executive Officer and Management Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $1.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 30, 2020 | ||
| 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. | $2.3M / Series B / Oct 13, 2020 | ||
| Rentio is a site that can be used anytime without buying 1,000 kinds of cameras and the latest home appliances. | $9.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 11, 2019 | ||
| Monokabu is a site where people can buy and sell new products at a price you decide. It specialises in sneakers. | $2M / Seed / Oct 31, 2019 | ||
| Atmoph is rethinking the way we connect with nature and information, in order to change quality of time at home better. Atmoph Window, the world’s first smart digital window, opens to beautiful scenery from around the world with 4K-shot videos and sounds. | $38.3M / Series B / Jul 25, 2019 | ||
| BUZZCAST provides influencer-based marketing, focusing on high-ROAS game LP (Let’s Play) videos. | $184.3K / Corporate Round / Jan 11, 2019 | ||
| Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search. | $2.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 29, 2018 | ||
| Mediabrst providing comedy content realizing video and video production with overwhelming quality and low cast. Mediabrst offer a wide range of services from content provision, video production, program production to youtube production. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 13, 2018 | ||
| Coinboard is a service that allows centralized management of virtual currency ownership and transaction history.If you are using multiple exchanges, you can check transaction history and total assets at once by using Coinboard for complex tasks that need to check asset status for each exchange.It is possible to significantly reduce the effort. | $943.8K / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 18, 2018 | ||
| See all 38 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Adways invest in?
Adways invests primarily in Software, Media and Entertainment and Content startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Adways invest in?
Adways typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$21M at Seed, $1M–$30M at Series A and $944k–$9.1M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Adways's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Adways took part in.
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Who are the partners at Adways?
The team at Adways includes Die Su (Executive Officer in charge of data business), Haruhisa Okamura (Founder and CEO) and Matsushima Ryoji (Executive Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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