# Batara Eto

> Batara Eto is a seed investor at East Ventures (Tokyo) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/batara-eto/20/521/674
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bataraeto
- Website: https://x.com/bataraeto
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Batara Eto is a seed investor at East Ventures in Tokyo focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Previously, Batara Eto co-founded Mixi and brought the company public in Japan. He was responsible for creating Mixi in December 2003, and he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mixi until 2008. He started his investment career by co-founding East Ventures and made their first investment in 2010.Batara holds bachelor degree in Computer Sciencefrom Takushoku University Japan.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$7.1M |
| Series A | $2.6M–$5.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 30% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Payments | 2 | 20% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 20% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 4 | 40% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Thailand | 1 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Toku | Toku is an all-in-one global solution for token compensation and tax compliance. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Anyplace | Anyplace is a marketplace that provides flexible housing to digital nomads and millennials. Its mission to free people to live wherever they feel inspired to go by providing modern, dependable, turn-key living and accommodations anyplace in the world. | $5.3M | Series A | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Lanturn | Lanturn provides one-stop online corporate services. | $3M | Seed | Oct 08, 2020 |  |
| 1ne studio | 1ne studio is a startup that supports creators who want to work as a professional. It aims to empower creators, hoping to help them focus more on great creativity without having to spend hours on promotion, preparing a portfolio. Its product is called "foriio" whereas it is the portfolio platform for great creators. “foriio” is aportfolio creation service that anyone can easily create a simple and easy to see portfolio page.” With the concept of “portfolio to all creators, efficient matching of the creators, the place of appeal is limited to breaking the current situation. In June 2019, the company raised approximately 50 million yen from several companies and investors, including the East Ventures. Matching companies seeking creators and creators with various demands, such as influencers, liver, video Contents, VR, VTB, etc. It will evolve as a platform.It was founded on December 15, 2017, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $7.1M | Seed | Jun 27, 2019 |  |
| Meily | Meily is Creating a base for the minds of people who struggle with appearance. |  |  | Jan 18, 2019 |  |
| Omise | Omise is an online payment gateway offering a wide range of processing solutions for any business need. Our endeavor is to provide the best online payment experience that works seamlessly on both the mobile and the web. With a growing dynamic international team, we relentlessly work to set new benchmarks to the industry by optimizingeasy-to-integrate functionality for our partners while at the same time, narrowing the gap that staggers between the physical and online market today. Omise now operates in Thailand, Japan, and Singapore.In Thailand, online stores are still striving to have a proper payment solution because applying and implementing has never been simple and smooth. All of the major PSP’s require cumbersome documentation to apply; monthly commitments, high transaction fees and all take considerable amount of time to gain approval. Additionally, there is no good online API documentation or sandbox to test. Thus, stores drive their business by offline payment methods such as ATMs, Banks or online banking. Once shoppers have made their transactions, they have to send a proof of payment to there store via email or other social network channels. Since there is no payment notification, the store has to check the transaction manually which delays the delivery time and increases the chance of fraud. This fraud may occur by shoppers’ photo shopping their proof of payment.Since a reliable, simple and smooth online payment system has been lacking in Thailand, Omise.co founder, Jun Hasegawa and co-founder Ezra Don Harinsut, recognized the need to bridge the gap between stores and shoppers. Therefore, the Omise team has been developing a payment solution that would be available for everyone to sign up and make online payments simple, easy, smooth and possible. Omise is ideal for both developers and non-developers. Applying for Omise only requires minimal online identification, no minimum monthly commitment and low transaction fees. Stores will be able to accept payments instantly. In addition, for non-developers, accepting payments via social network will be possible for everyone! Stores are able to accept credit and debit card payments as well as bill payments which will allow shoppers to pay by their online banking accounts, ATM’s and banks. Providing the highest level of online payment security standard has always been Omise’s goal. That is why Omise has achieved PCI-DSS 3.1 compliant to meet all requirements from VISA and Master. | $2.6M | Series A | May 06, 2015 |  |
| Opn | Opn, which was rebranded from SYNQA, is a company founded in 2013 with expertise in Asia. Opn specializes in online payment, blockchain technology for fintech applications and digital transformation solutions. Opn connects people, businesses and society in innovative ways that spread the wealth of financial opportunity and provide fair and openaccess to a growing economic ecosystem under its vision of enabling access to the digital economy for everyone. Opn is powered by its payment infrastructure sister company, Omise Payment Holdings, which provides one-stop online payment solutions. Its services are used by thousands of merchants and businesses around the world. | $2.6M | Series A | May 06, 2015 |  |
| Tokopedia | Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company with a mission to democratize commerce through technology. Since its founding in 2019, Tokopedia has been a force that pioneers digital transformation in Indonesia. Consistent in building a bridge to connect millions of people, Tokopedia has now reached more than 99% of districts and empowers more than10 million merchants across the archipelago. The company's vision is to build a Super Ecosystem where anyone can start and discover anything. To achieve that, Tokopedia is working hand in hand alongside various strategic partners through the marketplace, logistics, payments, and financial technology businesses, while also providing more than 500,000 payment points across Indonesia, and offering more than 42 digital products that simplify the lives of many.With more than 100 million users, Tokopedia has contributed to driving more than 1% of the economy in Indonesia. |  | Series D | Jun 12, 2013 |  |
| Disdus | Disdus.com is a leading social ecommerce website in Indonesia that features a new deal every 2 days. |  | Seed | Dec 28, 2010 |  |
| Telcoin | Telcoin is bridging the gap between traditional finance and DeFi with user-owned products that are affordable, intuitive, and secure. The Telcoin App offers best-in-class digital remittances to mobile money platforms and e-wallets globally, in addition to a self-custodial DeFi wallet on Polygon. Users can store, send, and trade a growing list ofdigital assets, including the eponymous TEL token. TELx, the decentralized liquidity engine powering Telcoin services, enables users to earn fees from global exchange activity. The upcoming Telcoin Network is an open Ethereum sidechain run, validated, and secured by mobile network operators (MNOs). Telcoin Group is headquartered in Singapore where its operating entity is licensed as a Major Payment Institution. The Group's subsidiaries are also registered as money services businesses in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Telcoin notably supported the Nebraska Financial Innovation Act to create digital asset depository institutions for state-chartered banks, which was signed into law in May 2021. |  | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Protocol Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/protocol-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sinarmas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sinarmas) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMDV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smdv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Incube](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-incube) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About East Ventures

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

East Ventures is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investments, from Seed to Growth stage investments, for over 300 tech companies across Southeast Asia.As an early believer in the startup ecosystem in Indonesia and themost active investor in Southeast Asia, East Ventures is an early backer of prominent tech companies in the region, such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Ruangguru, ShopBack, waresix, Xendit, IDN, Sociolla, Fore Coffee (IDX: FORE), Tech in Asia (acquired by SPH), Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), and MokaPOS (acquired by Gojek).East Ventures was named the most consistent top-performing VC fund globally by Preqin and the most active investor in SEA and Indonesia by various media. Moreover, East Ventures is Indonesia's first venture capital firm to sign the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), supported by the United Nations (UN). East Ventures is committed to achieving sustainable development and positively impacting society through its initiatives and ESG-embedded practices.

5 contacts available at East Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Luthfi Prasetya | Co-Head of Legal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luthfi-prasetya |
| Takanori Oshiba | Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takanori-oshiba |
| Avina Sugiarto | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avina-sugiarto |
| Batara Eto | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/batara-eto |
| Italo Gani | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/italo-gani |

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## FAQ

### What does Batara Eto invest in?

Batara Eto invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Batara Eto's check size?

Batara Eto typically joins rounds of $3M–$7.1M at Seed and $2.6M–$5.3M 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 Batara Eto participates in.

### When did Batara Eto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Batara Eto closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 10 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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