# Flex Capital

> Flex Capital is a VC fund in Higashi-shinagawa backing Finance, Payments and Restaurants. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Higashi-shinagawa, Japan
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FlexCapital_jp
- Website: https://flex-capital.jp/\
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlexCapital.JP

Flex Capital is a new debt financing designed for startups. Flex Capital provide financing that provides close support to entrepreneurs taking on challenges.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 3 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 17% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 17% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |

24 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crisp | CRISP SALAD WORKS offers a focused menu of signature salads and grains made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods on-site. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Smooth | Smooth is a financial services company that provides initial cost installment payment solutions for real estate rental contracts. | $8.2M | Debt Financing | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Hokan | hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents. | $6.5M | Debt Financing | Oct 24, 2025 |  |
| Commune | Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people. | $10.1M | Debt Financing | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $36.9M | Debt Financing | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Shikomel | Shikomel is a restaurant app that receives recipes from the store. The menu offered by other shops can also be ordered. The app can be used to develop new menus. |  | Debt Financing | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| CLAS | Class is a connection between people, the value of money, time and things. | $16M | Debt Financing | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $2.3M | Debt Financing | Nov 29, 2024 |  |
| QUANDO | Quando is a business development company that specialises in leveraging IoT and AI technologies. | $1.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 19, 2024 |  |
| Hokan | hokan is developing an InsurTech service called "hokan"​ which is CRM/SFA SaaS service for insurance agents. |  | Debt Financing | Oct 05, 2023 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shizuoka Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shizuoka-bank) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Shoko Chukin Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shoko-chukin-bank) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation-54d8) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mizuho Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-bank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hokuriku Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hokuriku-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aozora Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aozora-corporate-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Flex Capital invest in?

Flex Capital invests primarily in Finance, Payments and Restaurants startups, most often at Debt Financing 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.

### When did Flex Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Flex Capital closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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