# Adways

> Adways is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Internet and Media and Entertainment. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/adways
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Adways_JP
- Website: https://adways.net
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/adwayscorp

Adways is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Internet 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/

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $21M–$39M |
| Series A | $1M–$64M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 6 | 21% |
| Media and Entertainment | 6 | 21% |
| Content | 5 | 17% |
| Software | 5 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 14% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 14 | 48% |
| Seed | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Die Su | Executive Officer in charge of data business | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/die-su |
| Haruhisa Okamura | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haruhisa-okamura |
| Matsushima Ryoji | Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matsushima-ryoji |
| Sang Won Lee | Executive officer of New Business Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sang-won-lee-af49 |
| Shingo Shikano | Senior Executive Officer and Management Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shingo-shikano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $28.3M |  | Oct 30, 2020 |  |
| 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. | $34M | Series B | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Rentio | 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 | 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. | $31.2M |  | Nov 11, 2019 |  |
| Monokabu | Monokabu is a site where people can buy and sell new products at a price you decide. It specialises in sneakers. | $31.2M | Seed | Oct 31, 2019 |  |
| Atmoph | 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 |  |
| Requpo | Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search. | $32.6M |  | Aug 29, 2018 |  |
| Media Breast | 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. |  |  | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| Coinboard | 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. | $14.2M |  | Mar 18, 2018 |  |
| BLAST Japan | BLAST, Inc. operates as a media company. BLAST, Inc. produce news and interviews on topics like career, fashion, lifestyle, and social justice issues. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2018 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Monex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monex-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ceres](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceres-inc-) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Adways invest in?

Adways invests primarily in Internet, Media and Entertainment and Content startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Adways's check size?

Adways typically joins rounds of $21M–$39M at Seed and $1M–$64M 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 Adways participates in.

### How do I contact Adways?

Public channels for Adways include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 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 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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