# Arco Partners

> Arco Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Education, Beauty and Information Technology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.arcopartners.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArcoNishida/

Arco Partners is a venture support and investment company.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $217k–$532k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 3 | 33% |
| Beauty | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |
| News | 1 | 11% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 78% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Palplat | Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform. | $531.6K | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Palplat | Palplat specializes in IT consulting and DX promotion utilizing as well as offers beauty counseling platform. | $217.1K | Seed | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Univrs | UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform. | $14.2M |  | Aug 03, 2020 |  |
| TOY EIGHT | Toy Eight is a children's education company that provides experiential edutainment playgrounds. The company nurtures child's untapped potential through its platform. |  | Seed | May 29, 2020 |  |
| linK&Relations | linK&Relations is a language learning service company. They specialize in acquiring native-class conversational skills, which are necessary for a leader. Their office study abroad is a program for brushing up the english skills of the next generation of management. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Trois-re | Trois-re is a Educational Platform | $899.3K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 19, 2020 |  |
| Spectee | Spectee is a online news agency that specializes in curating and publishing real-time social media UGC video. By using artificial intelligence patented by Spectee, It is able to reduce the time taken to analyze and sort social media news content, giving you faster access to the very latest UGC video. Expect video covering both Japanese andworldwide news from accidents and disasters to lifestyle and entertainment.​ it newsroom is verifying and acquiring licenses of those contents for broadcasters and publishers. | $36.9M | Series B | Oct 04, 2017 |  |
| NIL Japan | NIL is a company developed innovative functional ultrafine particle technology based on many years of research experience. | $22.7M |  | Jul 26, 2017 |  |
| NIL | NIL provides system software development services. | $22.7M |  | Jul 07, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fast Track Initiative, Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fast-track-initiative) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Hack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Arco Partners invest in?

Arco Partners invests primarily in Education, Beauty and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Arco Partners's check size?

Arco Partners typically joins rounds of $217k–$532k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arco Partners participates in.

### When did Arco Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arco Partners closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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