# BASE Partners

> BASE Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Sales, Retail and Content. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://base.partners/

BASE Partners is an independent venture capital organization organized by members who are professionals in each field such as managers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and accountants, and who are also entrepreneurs at the same time.Early and middle, mainly in the seed stage before and after the establishment. Up to the stage, we invest inall entrepreneurs and their challenges, and we also provide hands-on management support to startups that lack resources, experience and networks as well as funding.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $195k–$21M |
| Series A | $1M–$4.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sales | 2 | 10% |
| Retail | 2 | 10% |
| Content | 2 | 10% |
| Marketing | 2 | 10% |
| Communities | 2 | 10% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vesicle | Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables. | $3.2M | Series A | Jun 28, 2024 |  |
| Sabu | Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry. | $1.4M |  | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Sabu | Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry. | $682.1K | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Utill | Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services | $2.2M | Series A | Oct 04, 2021 |  |
| SODA | Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters. | $57M | Series C | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| Fabeee | "Fabeee" meant to support customers with the challenge of new manufacturing and with all efforts. The line between offline and online is no longer there, and manufacturing is about to change. We will fundamentally change the definition of manufacturing and support customers from various angles. | $1M | Series A | Apr 25, 2021 |  |
| Wuuzy | WUUZY provides a human resource matching service that specializes in the EC area. They are a company that acquires such unique knowledge appropriately through technology. They believe that the collective knowledge of many people will also be an important answer. | $234.8K | Seed | Feb 28, 2021 |  |
| SODA | Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters. | $20.9M | Series B | Jan 13, 2021 |  |
| Mono Technologies | Mono Technologies is an operator of a logistics platform to eliminate the hassle of wanting to sell or dispose of things. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| SODA | SODA is a CMS software development media management business. |  |  | Dec 24, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SBVA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-ventures-korea) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BASE Partners invest in?

BASE Partners invests primarily in Sales, Retail and Content startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round 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 BASE Partners's check size?

BASE Partners typically joins rounds of $195k–$21M at Seed and $1M–$4.3M 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 BASE Partners participates in.

### When did BASE Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for BASE Partners closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 20 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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