# DD Holdings Venture Capital

> DD Holdings Venture Capital is a VC fund in Minato backing Content and Cooking. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.dd-holdings-vc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DDHoldings.VC/

DD Holdings Venture Capital is a VC fund in Minato focused on Content and Cooking. DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.6M–$38M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 1 | 25% |
| Cooking | 1 | 25% |
| Ethereum | 1 | 25% |
| Education | 1 | 25% |
| Marketing | 1 | 25% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KOMPEITO | Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan. | $11.3M | Series C | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| CoCooking | CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities. |  | Seed | Nov 20, 2020 |  |
| Ginkan | GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019. | $2.6M | Series A | Jun 02, 2020 |  |
| Knowledge Merchants Works | Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”. | $38.3M | Series A | Sep 03, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [aucfan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aucfan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brainpad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brainpad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ceres](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceres-inc-) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chugoku Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chugoku-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [en-Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/en-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Giftee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giftee) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does DD Holdings Venture Capital invest in?

DD Holdings Venture Capital invests primarily in Content, Cooking and Ethereum startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is DD Holdings Venture Capital's check size?

DD Holdings Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$38M 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 DD Holdings Venture Capital participates in.

### When did DD Holdings Venture Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for DD Holdings Venture Capital closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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