# Arai Motoki

> Arai Motoki is a seed investor in Kyoto backing Wedding and Recruiting. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Kyoto, Japan
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/motoki-arai-45367a41/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/araimotoki
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/araimotoki

Arai Motoki is a seed investor in Kyoto focused on Wedding and Recruiting. Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wedding | 1 | 100% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 100% |
| Media and Entertainment | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| REXIT | REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society. | $7.8M | Seed | Dec 12, 2017 | http://rexit.co.jp |

1 of 1 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Arai Motoki invest in?

Arai Motoki invests primarily in Wedding, Recruiting and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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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### When did Arai Motoki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arai Motoki closed in Dec 2017. Shizune tracks 1 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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