# Daiji Horibe

> Daiji Horibe is a Series B investor at Dentsu Ventures backing Real Estate and Financial Services. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dentsu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu-ventures)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daiji-horibe-17b20124/

Daiji Horibe is a Series B investor at Dentsu Ventures in Tokyo focused on Real Estate and Financial Services. Engaged as a co-representative partner for Field Management Capital (FMC), mainly to plan funds and assist in business development for the invested companies. Before the establishment of FMC, he was involved in CVC establishment and operational support for major Japanese businesses at an independent Japanese venture capital firm. Prior to that, hesupported establishment of management strategies for major corporations in and outside Japan at the Boston Consulting Group. He was also engaged mainly in M&A advisory work at the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Daiwa Securities SMBC Co., Ltd.Graduated from the Faculty of engineering at Kyoto University, then the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University, and earned his MBA at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| toggle | toggle is the social implementation of technology in real estate, real estate, construction, and finance. | $9.7M | Series B | Jan 29, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [All Star SAAS Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-star-saas-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Japan Post Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-post-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [QR Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qr-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Reazon Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reazon-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sankei Building](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sankei-building) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wing Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wing-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Dentsu Ventures

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Dentsu. It specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments. It prefers to invest in the marketing and communication business sectors in the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.

5 contacts available at Dentsu Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daiji Horibe | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiji-horibe |
| Daisuke Takemori | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisuke-takemori |
| Katsuyuki Hasegawa | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katsuyuki-kevin-hasegawa |
| Kotaro Sasamoto | Managing Partner & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotaro-sasamoto |
| Yu Hirayama | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yu-hirayama |

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## FAQ

### What does Daiji Horibe invest in?

Daiji Horibe invests primarily in Real Estate and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Daiji Horibe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daiji Horibe closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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