# Animal Spirits Ltd.

> Animal Spirits Ltd. is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Medical. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://animalspirits.jp

Animal Spirits Ltd. is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Animal Spirits is an investment firm that raises funds for seed and early-stage startups and provides relevant advisory services.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $389k–$10M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$3.3M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $973k–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 15% |
| SaaS | 3 | 11% |
| Medical | 3 | 11% |
| Software | 3 | 11% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 11% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 37% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 22% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 20 | 74% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmobloom | Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 07, 2026 |  |
| Kikuvi | Kikuvi develops an AI-driven interview agent that automates question design, execution, and analysis. It eliminates the effort of listening, allowing users to focus their time on decision-making and creativity. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Mign | Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Innovative Space Carrier | Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies. | $20.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Cosomil | Cosomil develops early diagnostic drugs for diseases and provides research and development support to healthcare companies. |  | Series A | Feb 06, 2026 |  |
| Cosomil | Cosomil develops early diagnostic drugs for diseases and provides research and development support to healthcare companies. |  | Series A | Feb 06, 2026 |  |
| AstroX | AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space. |  | Series A | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Kimitona | Kimitona is the developer and operator of the AI ​​fortune-telling service "Uratch,". | $10.2M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| NanoFrontier | NanoFrontier continues to market technologies that are widely available and incredibly inexpensive. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Chorakuchoju | Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services. | $3.8M | Seed | Aug 04, 2025 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Genesia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesia-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Shizuoka Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shizuoka-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Angel Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-bridge) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Delight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delight-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [First Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ub-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Animal Spirits Ltd. invest in?

Animal Spirits Ltd. invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Animal Spirits Ltd.'s check size?

Animal Spirits Ltd. typically joins rounds of $389k–$10M at Seed, $1.4M–$3.3M at Series A and $973k–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Animal Spirits Ltd. participates in.

### When did Animal Spirits Ltd. last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Animal Spirits Ltd. closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 27 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.

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