# CBC Group

> CBC Group is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Manufacturing, Apps and News. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cbc-co.-ltd./
- Website: http://cbc.co.jp/

CBC Group is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Manufacturing and Apps. CBC Group imports and exports synthetic resins, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, electronics components, and optical equipments.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4.3M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| News | 1 | 8% |
| GovTech | 1 | 8% |
| Big Data | 1 | 8% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 3 | 25% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dodai | Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles. | $8M | Series A | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Regional Fish | Regional Fish provides seed, seedlings, aquaculture methods and fisheries services. | $19.1M | Series C | Dec 26, 2024 |  |
| Sotas | Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers. |  | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Taiwan Bio-Manufacturing Corporation | Taiwan Bio-Manufacturing Corporation is a biotech organization that produces mRNA, viral vectors, cells, and proteins. |  | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Esa | Esa offers plastic waste recycling, and also the development and distribution of plastic products | $3.1M | Series B | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| 3DC | 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices. | $3.7M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| FiscalNote | FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact.FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaignfinance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions. | $40M |  | May 24, 2021 |  |
| FiscalNote | FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact.FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaignfinance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions. | $40M |  | May 24, 2021 |  |
| Adcentrx Therapeutics | Adcentrx is a biotechnology company focused on accelerating breakthroughs in protein conjugate therapeutic development for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. By combining the targeting precision of biologics and the disease fighting power of small molecule payloads, Adcentrx strives to develop next generation targeted therapies forimproving patient treatment options. | $50M | Series A | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| AlphaICs | Alphaics is advancing AI compute with its patented technology called RAP, which would revolutionize the autonomous systems. Alphaics owns several inventions critical to AI computing. Currently Alphaics is commercializing the RAP (Real AI Processing) for use in Self driving cars, Robotics, Intelligent cloud computing, UAV and more. | $8M | Series B | Jan 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Legendary Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/legendary-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chaac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maso Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maso-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CBC Group invest in?

CBC Group invests primarily in Manufacturing, Apps and News startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CBC Group's check size?

CBC Group typically joins rounds of $4.3M–$50M 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 CBC Group participates in.

### When did CBC Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for CBC Group closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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