Akira Kurabayashi
Managing Partner and Head of Japan @ DNX Ventures
Tokyo, Japan
Akira Kurabayashi is a Managing Partner and Head of Japan at DNX Ventures. He was a Board observer at Clintal (Acquired by JDMC). He attended The Wharton School.
- Total investments:
- 97
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Akira Kurabayashi invests in
Stages Akira Kurabayashi invests in
Countries Akira Kurabayashi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (21%)
- Information Technology 14 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (8%)
- SaaS 7 (7%)
- Internet 7 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 29 (30%)
- Series A 27 (28%)
- Series B 10 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (8%)
- Series C 5 (5%)
Country
- Japan 58 (60%)
- United States 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Hiway is a consulting company that offers sales services consulting and partner sales operation support. | $1.9M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Asterminds has created the AI listening agent "InTake" to address the structural problem of "information intake." | $696.9K / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| InsightX is a technology platform focused on empowering businesses by simplifying complex processes and enabling smarter, more personalized user experiences. | $3.8M / Series A / Dec 09, 2025 | ||
| Nehan is a software firm that offers AI bidding information and a media outlet that delivers to local government businesses. | $1M / Seed / Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoicemanagement; and documentation support. | $12.2M / Series C / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Tres Alchemix is an AI-driven biotechnology company focused on accelerating drug discovery, predicting drug efficacy, and developing novel therapeutic compounds using advanced machine learning and data-driven approaches. | $4.4M / Series A / Sep 26, 2025 | ||
| Straya is a technology company focusing on the security industry that offers digital transformation solutions. | $678.6K / Seed / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| ROMS helps solve the problems of an aging society and labor scarcity in an innovative and responsible way by providing user-friendly robotics solutions for the omnichannel. Their focus is to deliver a functional platform that includes robotic stores using AI. | $8.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| ScaleBase enables next generation applications that require big data transactional processing, without changing the existing infrastructure.The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager dynamically manages and scales standard relational databases to meet changing business demands. ScaleBase virtualizes a distributed database environment, removingcomplexity, delivering real-time elasticity and increasing availability – all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure. | $16.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 05, 2025 | ||
| DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast. | $12M / Series B / Jun 23, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About DNX Ventures
The hardest thing for early stage B2B Startups is to find the first customer who can validate your Product Market Fit and grow your business together. Since 2011, they have created more than 100 partnerships between startups and Fortune 500 companies by leveraging their CXO network with Global Conglomerates.
DNX Ventures Contacts
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Eva Nahari
Principal
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Akira Kurabayashi
Managing Partner and Head of Japan
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Hiro Rio Maeda
Managing Partner
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Kaishu Kadoya
Senior Finance Associate
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Masahiko Inada
Venture Advisor
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What does Akira Kurabayashi invest in?
Akira Kurabayashi invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 97 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Akira Kurabayashi closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 97 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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