# Daisuke Takanashi

> Daisuke Takanashi is a seed investor backing Content, SNS and Adult. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daisuke.takanashi

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$9.7M |
| Angel | $229k–$3.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 2 | 22% |
| SNS | 1 | 11% |
| Adult | 1 | 11% |
| Gaming | 1 | 11% |
| Sports | 1 | 11% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Angel | 3 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RATEL | Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Abentry | Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business. |  | Seed | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| VCook | VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone. | $3.5M |  | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| VCook | VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone. | $229.1K | Angel | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| alma | alma is a community platform to learn design. | $9.7M | Seed | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Pointy | pointy opened the Waidan Bar, the first full-membership system in Japan, and started the Narikiri date project in June 2019. Waidan Bar is a bar that specializes in obscene conversations. The first restaurant is Asagaya, Tokyo, and it was started by renting a bar, but at that time raising more than 7 million yen at jitsugen. As of 2019, there arethree existing stores, and new purchases of membership are stopped. |  | Angel | Jun 21, 2019 |  |
| Carat | Service development and operation to make people shine | $8.7M | Seed | May 16, 2019 |  |
| Smartround | Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 06, 2019 |  |
| MonooQ | MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space. | $3.4M | Angel | Feb 12, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABBALab - Atom to Bit, Bit to Atom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abbalab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FiNC Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-ventures-e328) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Green Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-innovations) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KSK Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ksk-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Daisuke Takanashi invest in?

Daisuke Takanashi invests primarily in Content, SNS and Adult startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Daisuke Takanashi's check size?

Daisuke Takanashi typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$9.7M at Seed and $229k–$3.4M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Daisuke Takanashi participates in.

### When did Daisuke Takanashi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daisuke Takanashi closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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