# ASICS Ventures Corporation

> ASICS Ventures Corporation is a VC fund backing Health Care and Medical. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kobe, Japan
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $27M
- Last fund: Nov 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asics
- Website: https://corp.asics.com/en/ventures

ASICS Ventures Corporation is a VC fund in Kobe focused on Health Care and Medical. ASICS Ventures Corporation, a venture capital arm of the company that would accelerate and invest in startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$3.3M |
| Series A | $918k–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 7 | 35% |
| Medical | 5 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 20% |
| SaaS | 3 | 15% |
| Gaming | 3 | 15% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 35% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 10 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiroaki Kageyama | President & Chief Investment Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroaki-kageyama |
| Kihachiro Onitsuka | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kihachiro-onitsuka |
| Meiyo Mazato | President and Representative Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-meiyo-mazato |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pickleball One | Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world. |  | Seed | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| RebuilderAI | RebuilderAI is a 3D AI vision technology company for manufacturing, design, gaming, and entertainment. | $3.1M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Digital Entertainment Asset | Digital Entertainment Asset is a Next generation entertainment company. | $15.2M | Series A | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Godot | Godot's mission is to “inspire personal and societal growth through human augmentation”. As part of this mission, we are developing a Behavior Intelligence Platform (BIP) that helps enterprises improve UX, CX, and EX by visualizing human behavior principles and making it easy for anyone to implement insights from behavioral science. Thisplatform leverages evidence from behavioral sciences and advanced AI technologies. Our technology has already proven successful in health insurance industries, resulting in significant improvements in customer retention and satisfaction. Our team comprises experts in AI, behavioral science, and industry-specific applications, bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge to our solutions. Together, we are committed to creating a society where everyone can enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life, true to themselves, with the support of Godot's innovative technologies. | $7.6M | Series A | May 30, 2025 |  |
| Ashirase | Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Bisu | Every day we flush precious information on our bodies down the toilet. Bisu helps people capture these data and lead healthier, happier lives. Our product is a home health lab that provides personalized advice to help you look, feel and perform at your best, through easy, accurate urine and saliva tests. We are graduates of HAX, the world'sleading hardware accelerator, and have won numerous awards including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, MedTech Innovator, the Edison Awards, UK Tech Rocketship Awards and the British Business Awards. At CES 2020 we won the IHS Markit Innovation Award and were named by CNET as one of the top health-tracking devices. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| LYMB.iO | We are on a mission to make the world more active using the power of gamification.In a time, where technology fosters an inactive lifestyle, we realized that physical activity needs to be more attractive to stay relevant. Our mixed reality sports solutions enable athletes to train in more engaging ways, provide coaches with data analytics, helpkids to improve their motor skills and make it easier and fun for all of us to start working out and stick with our training routine. But apart from making sports as fun as gaming, we’re especially proud of getting inactive people moving – the kids and adults that never considered taking up a sport. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. | Seevix is a privately held biotech company producing high-strength, biocompatible spidersilk fibers, identical to natural fibers. Through recombinant DNA technologies, we are unique in our ability to replicate the natural self-assembly process of spidersilk creation. Seevix targets applications where the fibers’ mechanical properties can radicallyimprove existing products and provide solutions for unmet needs in a variety of industries. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 14, 2020 |  |
| Neutral | Neutral provides highlend sports mouth guard for athletes. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 04, 2020 |  |
| Pulse Active Stations Network | The Pulse Active Stations Network is a connected network of IOT-based Smart kiosks known as the Pulse Active Stations. Each Pulse Active Station generates a report with over 21 body parameters and risk indicators for 12 lifestyle diseases and is placed in a public area with high footfall such as Malls, Hospitals, Stations and other centers for theconvenience of the user. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 30, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does ASICS Ventures Corporation invest in?

ASICS Ventures Corporation invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ASICS Ventures Corporation's check size?

ASICS Ventures Corporation typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$3.3M at Seed and $918k–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ASICS Ventures Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact ASICS Ventures Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at ASICS Ventures Corporation?

The team at ASICS Ventures Corporation includes Hiroaki Kageyama (President & Chief Investment Officer), Kihachiro Onitsuka (Founder) and Meiyo Mazato (President and Representative Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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