# AS-accelerator

> AS-accelerator is a VC fund in Asaka backing Medical and Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Asaka, Japan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- Website: http://as-accelerator.biz/

AS-accelerator is a VC fund in Asaka focused on Medical and Artificial Intelligence. AS-accelerator offers a collaboration model to seed entrepreneurs and promote their cooperation with Japanese SME firms to innovate. AS-accelerator is a new scheme that supports those who want to start a business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Audio | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 88% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shanri | Shanri is a social media platform to share thoughts, experiences, and wisdom to create new values for everyone. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 | https://www.shanri.co.jp/ |
| Lifeform AI | Lifeform AI develops smart interfaces using patented sensing technology and human behavioral AI systems. Its AI for healthcare can recognize a variety of human behavioral motions such as poor sitting posture, driver drowsiness, and erratic sleep patterns, and empower users to actively improve these conditions through assistive devices. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 | http://www.lifeformai.com/ |
| ASTINA | Astina is Optimizing manufacturing solutions with the power of design and development. | $175.9K | Seed | Oct 05, 2018 | https://www.astina.co |
| KALKUL | Kalkul is a Tokyo-based startup pioneering the development of a new mixed reality platform. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 | https://www.kalkul.com |
| 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. | $7.8M | Seed | May 01, 2017 | https://diggle.jp |
| 96 Problems | Making simple apps and products to solve small problems, we try to release a new solution every 1-3 months. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2017 | http://www.96problems.com/ |
| Entouch | Entouch provides an environment where doctors can receive explanations of drugs from the MRs whenever it is convenient for them. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2017 | http://www.entouch.co.jp/ |
| Tupac Bio | Intuitively design your DNA, share your designs with collaborators, and perform and analyze your high-throughput screens. | $10.5K | Seed | Jan 20, 2016 | http://www.tupac.bio |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Startups Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500startups-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hoshino Fragment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoshino-fragment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Open Network Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/open-network-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SunBridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunbridge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wantedly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wantedly) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does AS-accelerator invest in?

AS-accelerator invests primarily in Medical, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did AS-accelerator last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AS-accelerator closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 8 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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