Beenos Partners
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Beenos Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on E-Commerce and Mobile. Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present and future business. The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before [pivoting to venture capital in 2014](https://www.techinasia.com/beenos-new-japan-incubator-accelerator-venture-capital-program-hiro-maeda).
- Total investments:
- 64
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Beenos Partners invests in
Stages Beenos Partners invests in
Countries Beenos Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $176k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $1.9M–$13M
- Series B
- $2.3M–$51M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 21 (33%)
- Mobile 8 (13%)
- Internet 8 (13%)
- Marketplace 7 (11%)
- Apps 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (36%)
- Series A 14 (22%)
- Series B 9 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (9%)
- Series C 4 (6%)
Country
- Japan 17 (27%)
- United States 10 (16%)
- India 9 (14%)
- Indonesia 6 (9%)
- Singapore 3 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shota Naoi
President and Group CEO
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President and Group CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Daisuke Imai
Corporate Officer
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Corporate Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kazuya Kawakami
Corporate Officer
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Corporate Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Koji Nakamura
Vice president and CFO
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Vice president and CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Otsuki Takashi
Executive officer
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Executive officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country. | Aug 25, 2023 | ||
| Ralali is an e-commerce company operating B2B online marketplace for local trade connecting suppliers and buyers, starting with Industrial and MRO categories then expand to Office supplies, Automotive, Medical, Agriculture, Home & Building, Hotel & Restaurant Equipment, and many more.The company was established in 2013 and is based inTangerang, Indonesia. | $10.9M / Series D / Feb 16, 2022 | ||
| Raena is an Indonesian startup that helps social media influencers launch their own e-commerce brands. Its web-based platform is designed for Indonesian customers to purchase beauty products from Japan and Korea. The company was recently founded by Harvard Business School, Google and Amazon alumna Sreejita Deb, earlier this year. | $9M / Series A / Feb 26, 2021 | ||
| WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $7.7M / Debt Financing / Nov 30, 2020 | ||
| Vpon Big Data Group is an Asia’s leading big data ad technology company founded in 2008. Possessed with extensive media resources reaching over 21 billion biddable inventories across Asia-Pacific, and advanced big data analytics technology, Vpon offers cross-border marketing solutions for O2O and e-commerce businesses to raise brand awareness anddrive profitable transactions. Vpon is highly capable to serve clients across 12 Asia-Pacific countries with its five offices stationed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. As a progressive front runner in data technology, Vpon has an ever-expanding user coverage of 60 million of Asia tourists in 2017 and 900 million unique devices per month in 2016, raising tens of millions of US dollars in Series A and B funding rounds. Besides, Vpon works continuously with third-party tracking on embracing viewability and transparency, dedicated to maintain a healthy ecosystem and sustainable development in the industry. Vpon has also been widely recognized in the industry by winning a Bronze award for Greater China Specialist Agency of the Year for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. The company has also won the third place in 2015 Forbes China’s Top 100 Privately Held Small Businesses, making a substantial boost from its sixth place in 2014, and proving convincingly its excellent services and profession over 1500 renowned brands. | $40M / Series C / Sep 10, 2020 | ||
| Sendo is an eCommerce site that offers a wide range of consumer products that include clothing, homeware, cosmetics, tech accessories, and more. The company helps online shoppers find daily deals, promotions, and handbooks with product listings in the categories of women’s fashion, men’s fashion, mother and baby, homeware, food, cosmetics, techaccessories, and sports and entertainment. Sendo’s product delivery network spreads across 64 cities where users can choose to make payments through credit cards, ATM cards or by a bank transfer.Sendo.vn was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. | $61M / Series C / Nov 19, 2019 | ||
| Raena is an Indonesian startup that helps social media influencers launch their own e-commerce brands. Its web-based platform is designed for Indonesian customers to purchase beauty products from Japan and Korea. The company was recently founded by Harvard Business School, Google and Amazon alumna Sreejita Deb, earlier this year. | $1.8M / Seed / Jul 17, 2019 | ||
| Metro Engines calculates optimal room rates for each plan with different accommodation types, room sizes, meal, cash back, other benefits. | $42.5M / Series B / May 21, 2019 | ||
| naturacart is a natural and organic CtoC / BtoC marketplace that sells products selected by buyers around the world and products from overseas brand manufacturers that have not yet arrived in Japan. The lineup ranges from beauty and health care products to wine, food and sportswear. The company sells products mainly for women, and ischaracterized by the ability to purchase foreign-made products that are not yet available in Japan. We have high-quality products carefully selected by manufacturers, distributors, shops and buyers in about 50 countries around the world. | $2.3M / Series B / Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| Cart allows to purchase wellness products from all over the world while in Japan. | $2.3M / Series B / Feb 13, 2019 | ||
| See all 64 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Beenos Partners invest in?
Beenos Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 64 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Beenos Partners invest in?
Beenos Partners typically joins rounds of $176k–$2.1M at Seed, $1.9M–$13M at Series A and $2.3M–$51M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Beenos Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Beenos Partners took part in.
How do I contact Beenos Partners?
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Who are the partners at Beenos Partners?
The team at Beenos Partners includes Shota Naoi (President and Group CEO), Daisuke Imai (Corporate Officer) and Kazuya Kawakami (Corporate Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 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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