Ceres
VC Fund
Setagaya, Japan
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
- Total investments:
- 52
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Ceres invests in
Stages Ceres invests in
Countries Ceres invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $464k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$120M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $450k–$3.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 8 (15%)
- Content 7 (13%)
- Blockchain 7 (13%)
- Media and Entertainment 6 (12%)
- FinTech 5 (10%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 14 (27%)
- Seed 11 (21%)
- Series A 7 (13%)
- Corporate Round 7 (13%)
- Funding Round 5 (10%)
Country
- Japan 34 (65%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chise Kuwayama
Auditor
|
Auditor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Satoshi Takagi
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Tetsuya Nozaki
Director, Vice President, Internet Business Division
|
Director, Vice President, Internet Business Division | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Hideaki Takahashi
Director, General Manager of Recruiting Media Business Division, Internet Business Division
|
Director, General Manager of Recruiting Media Business Division, Internet Business Division | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
|
Masataka Uesugi
Auditor
|
Auditor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series. | $5M / Series A / Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players. | $1.4M / Seed / May 14, 2025 | ||
| TASIMOVF was created by leaders in the blockchain and AI industry to break barriers between the industries that should be symbiotic. After a raise between 20+ companies $TAF has $770,000 to allocate to our first hackathon on Virtuals | $770K / Grant / Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| SOUNDRAW is an AI royalty-free music generator for video creators. Users can choose the mood, the genre, and the length they prefer, and the AI will generate songs in seconds. They can then further customize the song to fit their content. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment. | $3.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2024 | ||
| Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work. | Series A / Oct 05, 2023 | ||
| Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| SOUNDRAW is an AI royalty-free music generator for video creators. Users can choose the mood, the genre, and the length they prefer, and the AI will generate songs in seconds. They can then further customize the song to fit their content. | $1.4M / Series A / Jul 29, 2022 | ||
| DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company that engages in the advertising, marketing, and production of beauty and skin care products. | $6.6M / Series B / Mar 30, 2022 | ||
| CotoLab is an Internet company. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| See all 52 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ceres invest in?
Ceres invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Content and Blockchain startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 52 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ceres's check size?
Ceres typically joins rounds of $464k–$2.7M at Seed, $1.4M–$120M at Series A and $450k–$3.4M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ceres participates in.
How do I contact Ceres?
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Who are the partners at Ceres?
The team at Ceres includes Chise Kuwayama (Auditor), Satoshi Takagi (President & CEO) and Tetsuya Nozaki (Director, Vice President, Internet Business Division), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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