# D.A.Consortium

> D.A.Consortium is a VC fund in Shibuya backing Mobile and Marketing. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shibuya, Japan
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/d.a.consortium
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/dac__pr
- Website: http://www.dac.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/d.a.consortium

D.A.Consortium is a VC fund in Shibuya focused on Mobile and Marketing. D.A.Consortium provides support for internet advertising, planning, consulting, and media business. The company was founded in1996 and is headquartered in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 25% |
| Marketing | 3 | 25% |
| Advertising | 3 | 25% |
| Web Design | 2 | 17% |
| Social Media | 2 | 17% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 17% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 9 | 75% |
| Singapore | 2 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hirotake Yajima | Founder,President & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hirotake-yajima |
| Akihiko Tokuhisa | Senior Managing Director and Chief marketing Officer | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akihiko-tokuhisa |
| Shimada Masaya | President & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shimada-masaya |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TieUps | TieUps develops and operates SNS integrated marketing services. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Antsomi | Antsomi is a tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence-driven marketing technology. With a mission to help businesses to transform into data-driven companies, Antsomi built the first AI-enabled customer data platform, CDP 365, in Southeast Asia.While the customer data platform becomes the core of many businesses, Antsomi helps companies tounify and activate their customer data, through CDP 365, and related services.Co-founded by digital veterans in the region, Antsomi set up its headquarter in Singapore, with branch offices in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Its engineering center is located at Ho Chi Minh City, whereby it houses its data scientists, software engineers, and product managers. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| SELLinALL | SELLinALL offers a complete suite of an integrated solution that helps online merchants sell well and sell more. Founded in October 2015 by a couple of guys passionate about technology and the world of eCommerce, SELLinALL has been helping online merchants to sell better and sell more across multiple marketplaces in various countries. | $3M | Corporate Round | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Tribal Media House | Tribal Media House offers a range of products and services such as creative production and consulting that include marketing strategy planning, marketing research, social listening, branding assistance, the operation of an official account, and in-house marketing training. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 02, 2021 |  |
| Nyle | Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses. | $35.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 18, 2021 |  |
| Nyle | Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses. | $12.5M | Debt Financing | Jan 18, 2021 |  |
| Siiibo | Siiibo is a developer of an information platform intended to help private investors and companies to issue and purchase private bonds easily. The company's platform is creating a free, transparent, and fair direct finance that provides opportunities for an advisory to companies, such as support for diversification of funding using smallprivate placement bonds, and for building relationships with investors, enabling the private investors to get familiar with the issuance of corporate bonds. | $1.9M | Series A | Mar 31, 2020 |  |
| SmartNews | SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinatingengineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world. | $92M | Series E | Nov 18, 2019 |  |
| GIFMAGAZINE | GIFMAGAZINE is Japan's largest community for posting GIF animation works, with 150,000 works posted monthly. Among them, those who have a unique view of the world and produce highly artistic works are introduced as "GIFMAGAZINE Official GIFer". | $42.5M | Debt Financing | Jan 30, 2019 |  |
| Repohappy | Repohappy is a food and beverage media that receives invitations from popular stores. | $18.4M |  | Jan 22, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canal-ventures-6d88) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Energy & Environment Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-environment-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GREE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree-ventures-e73a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hakuhodo DY Media Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakuhodo-dy-media-partners-incorporated) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does D.A.Consortium invest in?

D.A.Consortium invests primarily in Mobile, Marketing and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round 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.

### How do I contact D.A.Consortium?

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### Who are the partners at D.A.Consortium?

The team at D.A.Consortium includes Hirotake Yajima (Founder,President & CEO), Akihiko Tokuhisa (Senior Managing Director and Chief marketing Officer) and Shimada Masaya (President & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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