# Ceres

> Ceres is a VC fund in Setagaya backing Cryptocurrency and Content. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Setagaya, Japan
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://ceres-inc.jp/index.html
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/%E6%A0%AA%E5%BC%8F%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9-914657831937342/

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Ceres. Shizune tracks 8 team members at Ceres. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ceres-inc-?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$14M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 16% |
| Content | 7 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 7 | 14% |
| Media and Entertainment | 6 | 12% |
| FinTech | 5 | 10% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 12 | 24% |
| Seed | 11 | 22% |
| Series A | 7 | 14% |
| Corporate Round | 7 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 34 | 68% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chise Kuwayama | Auditor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chise-kuwayama |
| Satoshi Takagi | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satoshi-toki |
| Tetsuya Nozaki | Director, Vice President, Internet Business Division | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tetsuya-nozaki |
| Hideaki Takahashi | Director, General Manager of Recruiting Media Business Division, Internet Business Division | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hideaki-takahashi |
| Masataka Uesugi | Auditor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masataka-uesugi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Samansa | 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 | AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players. | $1.4M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| TASIMOVF | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. | CotoLab is an Internet company. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Adways](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adways) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DG Daiwa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dg-daiwa-ventures-6537) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [I'LL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-ll) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ceres invest in?

Ceres invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Content and Blockchain startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 50 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 $1.8M–$14M at Seed and $1.4M–$120M 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 Ceres participates in.

### How do I contact Ceres?

Public channels for Ceres include the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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