# Akira Kurabayashi

> Akira Kurabayashi is a seed investor at Mazrica backing Software and Information Technology. See 92 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mazrica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mazrica-inc)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 92
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akirakurabayashi/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 15% |
| SaaS | 7 | 8% |
| Internet | 7 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 8% |

97 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 29% |
| Series A | 25 | 27% |
| Series B | 10 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 8% |
| Series C | 4 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 54 | 59% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiway | Hiway is a consulting company that offers sales services consulting and partner sales operation support. | $1.9M | Series A | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Asterminds | Asterminds has created the AI listening agent "InTake" to address the structural problem of "information intake." | $696.9K | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| InsightX | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Straya is a technology company focusing on the security industry that offers digital transformation solutions. | $678.6K | Seed | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| ROMS | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 92 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 29 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [ITOCHU Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

## About Mazrica

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Matsurika develops and provides the sales and marketing platform "Senses" that maximizes the results of the sales organization. Rather than aiming for simple efficiency by combining the power of people and technology, it will create a more free, more creative, and fulfilling work life in the world.

5 contacts available at Mazrica.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akira Kurabayashi | Outside director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akira-kurabayashi |
| Eiji Kurosa | Representative Director / Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eiji-kurosa |
| Masahiro Ito | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masahiro-ito |
| Masaru Kanai | Director / Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masaru-kanai |
| Sumida Ayumi | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumida-ayumi |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Akira Kurabayashi invest in?

Akira Kurabayashi invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 92 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Akira Kurabayashi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Akira Kurabayashi closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 92 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co